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(HT – Calculated Risk)

The image below is from an email blast sent out by a brokerage firm selling a retail property in Southern California.  Really, “Cooperating Broker Fee Offered” is your number #1 selling point?  I have cropped out the distinguishing portions of the image to protect the identity of the offending brokerage.

Last time I checked, offering [...]

I have just been notified, via Twitter that CNRPA is now following me.  So I go to check out who CNRPA is and I find the Commercial National REO Professionals Association!  Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time will understand when I say I can’t remember the last time I was [...]

Just got this email from a friend this morning.  Not much commentary necessary other than to say that a picture is worth 1,000 words.
Here’s the email:
I don’t know if you got this loopnet blast but it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Below are two different blasts that this broker has [...]

Here is a “Just Closed” email flyer I sent out this morning for a deal I just closed.  I don’t really want to use this blog to promote all things PCI, but I thought I’d share anyway because the fact that this deal closed in 1 week start-to-finish with a holiday and weekend in the [...]

Here is an email flyer I got yesterday.  These guys are trying to sell 30 acres of raw land for commercial development in Murrieta in a “C” location (on its best day).  Who is buying 30 acres for commercial development in Murrieta right now?  I don’t know anyone with that strategy in their business plan.  [...]

I just got the email below from NNNEX, a listing website I have always liked for its simplicity and ease of use.  It does one thing and does it well: a Craigslist of retail investment properties, if you will.

The message is a very powerful one.  It is just too bad most people in commercial [...]