Statistics show business and professional firms are buying offices rather than leasing. While buying or constructing an entire building is an option for major corporations or for smaller firms outside metropolitan areas, owning commercial space generally means being part of a condominium structure. Small office buildings are the most common type of commercial condominiums. The […]
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The Best Investment Is Still Real Estate
Whether you are an experienced real estate investor or just starting out in investments this might be the time to buy a rental house and let a tenant pay for it. Other kinds of investments, like stocks, have no comparison to real estate. Most improved real estate can be purchased with a small down payment. […]
Read more.Replacing Commercial Tenants
At all times, good or bad, we must aggressively search for replacement tenants. A month’s rent from a vacant unit can never be recovered. Just running expensive advertising for this space can be nonproductive. A better way might be to have a professional management company that keeps all local brokers who specialize in leasing informed […]
Read more.Are These Items In Your Leases
The following is a useful list of items that should be clarified between the parties in the lease of a commercial building: 1. What is the amount of usable space? Since the rent may be based on a square foot rate, the rate may be quoted on a rentable or a usable area. Rentable space […]
Read more.Help With Investment Real Estate
When you have searched for new real estate investment opportunities, with values that have been changing, you know that finding and evaluating them is becoming more sophisticated and complex. More investors are turning to real estate consultants as a means of providing a sounding board for their ideas as well as expertise in the planning […]
Read more.Lease Provisions For Intellectual Property
Typically, a landlord has access to leased premises at all times for purposes of making repairs and inspections. But in today’s information age, many tenants have valuable trade secrets, confidential information, and unique documentation in tapes, CDs, DVDs, listings, and other intellectual property that should not be accessible to the landlord. A software company tenant, […]
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