The fourth quarter witnessed $802 million worth of office properties transact, well under the $1.7 billion worth of office sales that traded quarterly, on average, during the past decade in the metro.Acute market weakness in most segments of the local office market, combined with long-term questions around the future trajectory for space use, have dented investor interest in office properties in the metro.

Both tactics offer distinct benefits, and your decision will be based on your tastes, goals, and local market conditions.

I get the distinct impression you want to use it sometimes so it needs to be closer rather than farther.There are a lot of mountains out here in the west.

🙌Establishing distinct legal organizations for each acquired property is a prudent course of action.

So the 1st, is focused toward the Property management aspect and all the real estate segment of things like that, with personal assistant unto business.

REI is one thread in the tapestry that is America.Yes Arizona is quickly emerging on the hardware side of Moore's law.Texas a little more on the software side.Raleigh Durham, Murfreesboro and multitude of other emerging markets.I'm very confident that outmigration from CA will continue for certain segments of the population.There will be more income stratification here in the Golden State.

I also know restaurant's and food service, been in that segment for decades.

Great intro @Melani Pratt, welcome to the site.One word of wisdom though: the first deal is not the hardest... that distinction is for the second one.Then once you have the second one, it's the third one.

I got the distinct impression from several of them that they thought they may be getting scammed. 

Thank you all for welcoming me, I look forward to listening to the pod cast to get more educated on what's new, what's old and what's works today, I know a lot has changed in the last 4-5 years, with the housing market, even in a good market for homebuyers, I need to be more sharp on what applications and techniques work, I also have a question is it better to be a realtor in the investing segment of real estate?