CRMs – Love Affair/Terrorist Plot?

Ok, perhaps I was a bit dramatic, but come on, have you ever found THE perfect Customer Relationship Manager program?!?  CRMs are great and provide lots of ways to manipulate your content, but I’ve yet to find the perfect one. We recently transitioned from a...

DFW Office Market Still Rocking

Costar, a commercial real estate research and listing service, reported that the Dallas Fort Worth office market closed out 2019 with 5.2 million square feet (SF) of net absorption which is the highest since 2014 which had 6.9 million SF of net absorption. Net...

8 Reasons to Buy a Building Instead of Leasing

Most companies lease the office and warehouse space they occupy.  There are many reasons for that:  don’t want to be a landlord; don’t have the down payment; want to keep the money in the business where it will earn a higher return than in a real estate...

Don’t Let Your Lease Kill the Sale of Your Business

As an asset manager, in the late 90s, working for a large owner of office buildings, I got a phone call from a guy who said he was buying one of the companies in a Dallas building we owned. He said his company planned to close on the sale the next day and he wanted...

Feeling Cramped in the Office?

Have you ever noticed how food manufacturers sometimes shrink the size of your favorite candy bar or bag of chips? The price stays the same, of course, but you just don’t get as much. Well, offices have been getting smaller for a long time at the same time that...