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How to identify the best Commercial Tenant Agent
Commercial Tenants and Buyers often wonder if their supposed Real Estate Broker is actually more interested in cashing a commission check than in helping them to find the right workspace at the best price. Unfortunately, they‘re usually right. Even worse, though, do...
How to handle IT cabling and your lease the right way
Our International Client was concerned about the Office Lease proposed by its potential new Landlord. It required the Tenant to remove all of its IT Network Cabling at the end of the lease term. How much would this cost? Do I really have to do it? Increasingly, major...
Avoid 13 risks when you want to be a Subtenant
If you might consider being a Subtenant, it’s critical to look deeper than the discounted rental rates and the free office furniture. Watch out for thirteen dangerous potholes that could really wreck your Sublease opportunity. The devil is still in the details when...
Court favors Buyer when Dual Agent makes big mistake
The California Supreme Court upheld the Buyer’s appeal in its recent case against Dual Agents working for a residential real estate brokerage firm during the purchase of a $12.25 million home in Malibu. Dave and Debbie Dual Agents tried surfing a big wave to...
Our Shimano Pearl Izumi HQ build to suit wins Number 1 in The World
Louisville, Colorado USA – Conceived under a crystal blue Rocky Mountain sky, Pearl Izumi's 55,000 SF "Modern Design Barn" was built only after Lee Plenty Wolf and Lakota Sioux Nation tribesmen had smudged the site and blessed it with sage smoke during the...
The 4 best ways to develop commercial buildings
We read and heard many of the media reports about the fiascos regarding the new, still uncompleted 31-acre Veterans Affairs Medical Center Project in Aurora, Colorado, which started in 2007 or 2010, depending on your point of view. At this stage, the 1,260,000 SF, ten...
How to win with SBA Loan and rent from yourself
Cut your company or professional firm's "effective" lease rates dramatically. Be your own Landlord with the help of an SBA 504 Loan. Today's low interest rates for a purchase can help you, by a wide margin in many cases, to beat the high lease rates offered by...
This is the best way to avoid conflicts of interest
When it comes to leasing commercial workspace, too many Tenants mistakenly believe that the Landlord’s Leasing Agent/Broker will somehow represent them in negotiations. Unfortunately, this is never the case. The important question that this article answers is, “Who...
How to get the best results when you renew your lease
Landlords make their biggest profits off of Tenants at Renewal Time. But most Commercial Tenants assume incorrectly that their Landlords will be fair at Renewal Time, so they start late and leave too little time for market research and negotiations. This is their...
Commercial lease negotiations are part dance and part dogfight
Whether you're moving into a new building with a new Landlord or renewing or renegotiating an existing lease, there's a time to dance and a time to dogfight. The secret is knowing when to sharpen your smooth moves or your teeth. This may surprise you but it’s 95%...
How to lease flexibly for the best and worst of times
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. As a Commercial Tenant, how do you prepare for both? You need to build flexibility into your Lease by negotiating wisely. The future for your company, partnership or non-profit may be rosy, uncertain or troubled but...
When you need to License your empty desks
If you’re a Tenant or Owner-Occupant with some unused private offices, desks, cubes or seats at tables in your workspace, Licensing may be a better way to get some rent or mortgage relief than traditional Subleasing. Typically, at no additional charge, Licensors also...
How buildings make good grades and why your Factor matters
To distinguish between buildings and justify differences in rental rates, the Commercial Real Estate Industry uses an A, B, C grading system. This explains the grading criteria for Office Buildings and why an Office Tenant should upfront pay close attention to...
What is in the spaghetti sauce of asking rates at Office Buildings
Does your mind start to get foggy when you call a Landlord's Leasing Agent about Office space for lease and he or she quotes you a rental rate number plus some other mumbo jumbo jargon? Things like triple nets and CAMs? This article will refocus your brain and explain...
Full Security Deposit refund like free cash back credit card
So how do you get back a full refund of the Security Deposit for your leased Office or Industrial workspace? Doing it successfully is like having a free credit card that pays roughly 2.8% cash back at the end of a 3-year lease or 1.7% cash back on a 5-year...
Do not get shanked by a Landlord in the back alleys of Antwerp
London, United Kingdom - All alone, it can be dangerous for a US-based Occupier to pursue a commercial real estate transaction in a foreign city. Without an expert, fully equipped Tenant Representative watching your back, the risk of getting financially assaulted in a...
Treatment of leases under new FASB Rules to be painful
As comfortable as we are in our 1955 Ford Fairlane, we all need to get ready for some changes. CFOs everywhere that use GAAP will need to get out of their comfort zones and pay attention to painful changes coming in how the Financial Accounting Standards Board...
How Landlords waste your TI Allowance and jack up your rents
Can an Office or Industrial Landlord cause you to overspend your Tenant Improvement ("TI") Allowance? And leave you holding an unexpected, unwanted and un-budgeted tab costing thousand of dollars? Absolutely. It happens to Commercial Tenants far more often than you...
Cheap trick saves rent and improves security for small Server Rooms
To save money and improve security for your data and server equipment, consider office buildings that have clean, dry basement storage spaces to lease for your small Server Room. Three (3) very good reasons to consider this are… Less Expensive to Rent: Basement...
This is how Legalized Marijuana can interrupt your lease
At a conference in Dallas, Texas, in 2014, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper told other US Governors to "Think twice" before legalizing Recreational Marijuana in their states. Of course, for decades every state in the US has had plenty of illegal Weed floating...