A lot of people talk about being broker friendly because it sounds good, and they want to incentivize deals … I’d say we end up arguing over fees on 80% of our deals. 20% are ACTUALLY broker friendly.

Targeted improvements drive leasing. Leasing drives traffic. Traffic drives sales. Sales drives rents, and more leasing. Better tenants drives more traffic. Higher traffic, higher sales. Higher sales, more tenants. More tenants higher rents…

Any ever notice how many Five Guys there are in London? These things are everywhere.

Also so are these Wok and Fires and they’re wildly popular

Public Service Announcement: Get out and drive markets on a regular basis. I live on google maps and gis, looking for ideas and cold calling owners - but you’re making your life way harder by not driving thru the market regularly. You’re missing a lot of opportunities. Not

How many times per day is “yada yada” used in one of your conversations?

Basis PSF is only important relative to what it’s going to rent for PSF. Nothing more important in commercial real estate than leasing space.

Things I believe about retail properties: 1. Price isn't the most important purchase criteria 2. Locations can get worse with time 3. Good things happen to good properties 4. Really really rich areas are the best places to own 5. Low ceilings are expensive 6. Prominent

This headline is CRAZY

Game plan for singles and doubles, and you’ll hit a few home runs along the way

Whole Foods coffee bar highly underrated coffee. 👌🏽

I’ve recently learned from a few young parents in my life that Barnes & Noble has become one of their favorite places to shop for children’s toys and birthday gifts. “It’s one of the best selections around.” Stopped by Barnes to check it out myself. They were right. Robust

Class A all day

Kind of surprising that the major gym companies never created their own competitive fitness events to compete with Tough Mudder spartan #Hyrox and similar extreme fitness events Feels like that would have been a natural bolt on business for companies like Planet Fitness

Everyone wants a big value add deal till they see what deep value add looks like. Among other concerns you’ll realize how hard it is to finance.

If you dress even remotely stylish these days you look like a stud because everyone else is wearing the exact same combo of casual workwear / athleisure

I know a few guys that were mildly successful in CRE till 40 - then finally got their big chance and went on a 10-15 year tear developing single tenant net lease nationally. Right timing. Right relationship. Peak expertise in order to perform once the opportunity came. They

CRE loves poking fun at resi agents - but the reality is there are quite a lot of realtors and mortgage brokers that make fortunes in this country They may not be as cool, sophisticated or sexy as CRE but they’re building a lot of wealth thru those businesses. I’m friends

Develop close relationships with site work contractors in your core markets. Having them in your corner is an enormous asset

Nothing in commercial real estate has pricing power potential like high end retail Maybe Hotels, but that’s a much harder way to make a dollar.