Midwest Commercial Real Estate Issues

In the Olympic Hockey movie, "Miracle", head coach Herb Brooks has a scene where he works his players hard after a game.  Sprint after sprint  (he called them "Herbies").  And after every sprint he asks an individual player "Who do you play for?".  Each player in succession answers with the name ...

A hard to find food processing facility, mainly utilized for dairy processing.  Includes 140,000 sf of space Labs, this used to also serve as an R&D facility for food development. Drains throughout the manufacturing area Plumbed for processing Offered at $2.5 Million Located at 200 West Grand Ave...

16 acre site, former lumber yard, located in Walworth County, Wisconsin Located on State Highway 11, near Delavan, Elkhorn, and Lake Geneva.  Offered at $920,000, owner financing is available, call for term sheet. Retail space, office, and cold storage space is Available. Go to www.agencynet.us ...

Great location, 11.2 Acre Site, Beloit, Wisconsin Located on Interstate 90 and 43, with over 50,000 AVD Some retail space available. Address: 3022 Ford Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511 Owners are willing to finance, call for term sheet  Offered at $2.4 Million Available for lease, terms vary on s...

I have a client that has taught me an outstanding lesson in sales.  His technique is simple and to the point, and I wish that after spending all these years in sales classes somebody had taught it to me years ago. Whenever I meet or speak him, he always (and I mean always) closes our conversation...

I was "reflecting" the other day, as we all seem to have time to that these days, and remembered a couple of people  I had on my paper route.  This was back in the "old" days when papers were delivered by kids on bikes, not in cars, and when people knew who their paperboy was. Heck, it was back i...

In a previous lifetime, I was in the software business.  Many times customers just could not get over the price issue, and software was expensive.  One person came up with an idea that seemed to help get over the hurdle of price. Instead of paying our asking price, we would sit down and try and i...

Quality Control Test, True Story Count the "F's" in the following text: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS Scroll down only after you have counted them! HOW MANY "F's" did you count?    3??      Wrong, there are 6 "F's"! The brain...

  Lease versus Buy, Press Release  CONTACT:   Gary Seidel, Point ONE Commercial Real Estate   ENTREPRENEURS FACING LEASE VS. OWN DECISION NEED TO TAKE LONG-RANGE OUTLOOK, EXPERT SAYS            Fledgling entrepreneurs -- be they owners of accounting firms, machine shops, local restaurants, clothi...

Bad Commercial Real Estate Deals Not all deals in the commercial real estate world are alike.  Many are good, and some are just downright bad.   After having just gone through a bad one, I thought I would document some of the red flags that might point to a bad deal.  All of these by the way, hap...