Fishing Season -- and Other Real Estate Interview Questions
Saturday, March 06
Mike "Stone Face" Koll was a legendary figure at the University of California, Berkeley where he sat at the helm of its Alumni Association. A Cal baseball Hall-of-Famer and WWII veteran, Koll co-founded the 'Lair of the Golden Bear' camp in the Stanislaus National Forest, one of the most successf...
Keeping Company Culture in Covid-19
Tuesday, January 05
Ergonomic home office evaluations, flexible schedules, and fun --- progressive companies continue to build culture in remote settings Company culture, sometimes apparent and other times intangible, is a cornerstone of the workplace. , culture resides in “shared behaviors, values, and assumptions...
Negotiating 101: Know your Amortized Cost
Friday, June 19
Before you go into negotiations with a prospective tenant, make sure you have a financial analysis of the proposed lease, so you can tie every added dollar of capital investment per square foot to an amortized x dollars at a certain interest rate over the lease term. This one-to-one correspondenc...
"Yes, and" -- how improvisation techniques help a real estate career
Tuesday, October 15
Stomping and laughter bursts from the second floor. There, the nation’s oldest collegiate improvisation troupe — My Mother's Fleabag, at Boston College — is rehearsing. The group boasts alums the likes of former SNL cast member Amy Poehler and Oscar-winning Tom McCarthy. The rules are simple, al...