There’s just something about the ease of online shopping, just one-click to buy and the goods are shipped to your door * fantastic * Automobile websites these days also make online shopping fun, you can build your dream car with all the features and customizations. Tesla.com’s website gives you a way to justify your new […]

I was tired of cheap haircuts by women who spoke little english and made awkward conversation with me. One Sunday afternoon I pulled up YELP.com and found a yound dude with 5 Star ratings near my home in Irvine CA. I dialed him up and we scheduled a cut. Zac was renting a chair and […]

Memories flood into my mind when I think Huntington Beach, mostly of early morning surf team practices at the pier with sand as cold as snow and consistent fun waves with friends…Fast Forward 15 years and now I am on land, showing property at 101 Main Street above Jacks Surfboards trying to make a buck […]

#hashtags have become trendy, but before they were cool Commercial Real Estate Brokers and investors have been using short-hand/acronyms to analyze properties to purchase and sell. The most ubiquitous is the #CAP rate, AKA Capitalization Rate, which is figured by taking the #NOI (net operating income) divided by the asking price. The CAP rate gives […]

Our brokerage Firm, Southwest Commercial, has represented the Landlord at Grand Dyer Business Park (LINK for Brochure)for decades now. It’s always a triumph to achieve 100% occupancy on a multi tenant business park due to the natural turn over of tenants expanding and contracting. In December of 2013 we were able to celebrate that 100% […]

Well, maybe not really the dreaded “cold-call” but I did stop by un-announced!! The approaching week before Christmas can be quite slow for business and I like to go visit my clients and give gifts and christmas cards out, face to face. I personally am not a fan of those MASS – EMAIL spam cards […]

Interesting story… so my Wife and I were in the Democratic Republic of Congo back in February to pickup our newly adopted son Tyson. Communication to the outside world was challenging but when I heard that a client of mine had referred the KONG Company to me, I was ready to do whatever it took […]