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Turnkey vs. TI Allowance: Comparing Tenant Build-Out Options in CRE
Securing the ideal commercial real estate space for your business often involves more than finding the perfect location. For office and industrial tenants, a significant part of the leasing process revolves around customizing...
Ethical and Transparent Practices: Building Trust in Commercial Real Estate
The commercial real estate industry is built on relationships, but not all are transparent and marked by integrity. Office and industrial tenants and buyers often face limited visibility into transaction terms and the...
Protecting Your Business in Landlord-Favoring Lease Structures: Tips for Office and Industrial Tenants
Many business owners find that standard lease terms heavily favor landlords when negotiating a commercial lease. From excessive pass-through costs to restrictive renewal options, tenants often have limited control and exposure...
Is Buying Commercial Real Estate a Smart Investment for Your Business?
When deciding how to secure the best commercial real estate space for your business, it’s common to grapple with whether to buy or lease. In a previous article, we explored the pros and cons of each option at a high level. Now,...
How Tenant Representation Saves You Money and Reduces Leasing Risk
Securing the ideal commercial real estate space for your business is essential. Unfortunately, the complexities of lease terms and negotiations create significant challenges for entrepreneurs seeking a lease. With proper...
Buying vs. Leasing Commercial Real Estate Assets for Your Business
Should you buy or lease the space where you operate your business? Depending on who you talk to, you might get the conventional wisdom of, "It's always better to buy." However, deciding how to secure commercial real estate space...
How to Run Tenant Buildout Cadence Meetings Like a Boss
Scheduling Cadence Meetings to Keep Your Projects On Track As discussed in our article One Simple Trick to Save Time and Money When Planning a Commercial Build-Out, it is critical to schedule cadence meetings for your tenant...
Navigating Through the Market Fallout of COVID-19
We have made some interesting observations during the last several market downturns. In our current state of uncertainty, these observations may be helpful for commercial tenants to navigate through the unexpected changes we are...
CGL Insurance – Our Top Advice To Save Your Business Money
Our Top Advice on CGL Insurance Policies That Can Save Your Business Money Practically all commercial leases contain a list of insurance policies the tenant must carry. The most common type of insurance in the commercial lease...
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Subleasing
The unique circumstances of the parties and space on offer combined with a landlord’s position within a market can make for an amazing deal when subleasing. But subleasing can also be a risky move. Let’s look at the benefits and...
Good Real Estate Business In A Bad Economy
The economy ebbs and flows. The real estate market is particularly vulnerable to its changes. But there are a couple of things about a ‘bad” economy that we can be thankful for as real estate professionals. Income and...
One Simple Trick to Save Time and Money When Planning a Commercial Build-Out
Save Money and Avoid Problems When Planning a Commercial Build-out Planning a commercial build-out, for any type of company space, has long been a slow-moving, somewhat tedious, game of guessing and waiting. Whether the job is...
Explaining Tenant Improvement Work Letters
What Is a Tenant Improvement Work Letter? The tenant improvement work letter is essentially a contract to complete construction work in a commercial space. It is generally an addendum to the lease agreement involving third...
Two Ways To Save On “Pass Through” Operating Expenses
A property owner decides what expenses get passed through to his or her tenants. Understandably, they want to get as high a return as possible on their investment. The following two methods can protect you from inappropriate...
Four Strategies Landlords Use to Maximize Lease Renewal Profit – And How to Respond
Effectively planning and timing your company’s real estate transactions can mean the difference between whether your money stays in your pocket or ends up in your landlord’s pocket. Leverage in the negotiation of rent is...
Three Ways to Improve the Efficiency of Your Company’s Real Estate
Today’s digital world demands that most companies focus their real estate on maximizing utilization and efficiency while trimming costs. Here are three areas to consider to make the most of your space: 1) Utilize...
Is Your Company Throwing Away Money On Phantom Space?
Phantom space has nothing to do with a building being haunted. But it is scary to think of the money you could be throwing away if it exists in your company’s lease. To understand what this means you first need to understand how...
The Modern Office
Ethonomics is the study of the delicate balance between ethics and economics. It has become somewhat of a buzz word in modern office management culture. Why is that important from a commercial real estate perspective? Because it...