We're giving away bacon to clients who order commercial appraisals during the month of September. For real. Here's why. Aside from being a shameless marketing ploy, it's simple, really. Bacon makes people happy. Everyone wins under this scenario. We get business. You get bacon. We're happy. You're happy. We're not sure how or why, … [Read more...]
Strong Dollars and Industrial Buildings
Think back. Think waaaaay back to a time before the internet and cell phones to a time when you sat in class, bored as your Economics 101 professor explained the impact of strong and weak dollars. You might remember that strong dollars make our goods expensive relative to goods in other countries. A weak dollar has the opposite effect. When … [Read more...]
Indiana Commercial Real Estate
Indiana's nickname is "The Crossroads of America." Alright, so it might not be the best name, but it does tell us something. It's a commercial and transportation rich state, one that allows for easy access. Companies love ease of access. This keeps their costs down and allows for smooth shipping. This state might have a lot of farm land and … [Read more...]
The ‘So What?’ Factor
Those who attain a certain level of expertise in their chosen occupation often develop trade lingo. Their vocabulary may become so specialized that an entire conversation would sound like gibberish to the uninitiated. I'm certain that one's motives for using such trade lingo varies from time to place. Sometimes specialized words are simply a quick … [Read more...]
Why We Love Our Clients
That's me up front. I was a corporal back then. We performed combat training exercises out of Ft. Wainwright, Alaska. In military parlance, we were 'hard'. We were toughened by years of physical training and operating in sub-zero temperatures. After this picture was taken I attended Pre-Ranger School and then Ranger School down in Ft. Benning, … [Read more...]
Let’s All Stop Pretending.
Perhaps the biggest threat to our world is the danger that we will all begin to take ourselves a bit too seriously. I see signs of that on Facebook and in the lives of people I know. The world seems to be getting angrier, or more depressed. Maybe it's the product of politics. I'm not sure but I think it can eventually get to most of us. We're more … [Read more...]
Will the Last Christian Out Please Take Down the Cross?
Newsflash! Christianity Abandons Christ in Favor of Next President What has happened within Western Christianity is appalling. We claim to be enlightened. We're not. We claim to follow Christ. We don't. We say that we believe that "Jesus is Lord" but have no idea what that even means. We have abandoned the cross, the central symbol of defiance … [Read more...]
Why some banks are running scared.
A couple of weeks back, I published a blog post about excess rents. For that blog post, I interviewed Stephen Roach, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, who recently wrote an article that appeared in The Appraisal Journal, the leading trade publication for commercial appraisers throughout the world. On the surface, the post appeared to be just another boring article … [Read more...]