What do you believe?
I found the chirping crickets a curious sound effect after Carvey gushingly asked, "how about that President Obama?" I'm thinking the audience probably just didn't hear the question.
I must have missed the Barney Frank...
Don’t mess with the bull
That’s where numbers become important. Numbers drive our operations, set our projections and bear our cash flow, and right now the numbers are some of the best most of us have seen, and a...
Oh what joy
Greetings great commercial real estate warriors. The strong. The entrepreneurial risk-takers. Our nation’s A-Team.
It’s been another banner year as we were called upon to house an expanding segment of this great nation in a...
An inside job
Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness. —Helen Keller
There’s a lot of unhappiness out there. Certainly there are legitimate reasons...
Unintended consequences
The fact is, President Obama has caused us to care.
Gallup recently reported that Americans are paying closer attention to political news than during any non-election year since the company began tracking the issue in...
The life of a bug
In the old-school novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915), the main character, Gregor, does just that.
It's not so much that he bizarrely transforms from salesman to giant bug in the first paragraph of...
Let business go: regulations
It was just months ago that economic indicators marked the most welcome creation of wealth and growth, and the nation made record gains in prosperity fueled by optimism and ability.
How do we get the...
Birth of a builder
Christmas makes me think of builders. It celebrates, among other supernatural events, the birth of a carpenter who apprenticed in the family business. Once grounded in the principles of earthly construction he went on...
The soul of success
From the tales of his tirades, it sounds like he missed his yoga class. Go figure. Even the laid-back, button-down Californians are stressed these days.
That, and it may continue to be open season on...
That which makes life worth living
The above words are those of T.S. Eliot. He’s not referring to wealth, liberty or even experience. What makes life worth living in the mind of T.S. Eliot and other great thinkers, is culture....
One punch can change everything
Association, after all, is pivotal to human existence.
We touch on the association of smell and its impact on leasing apartments in our story, "Clearing the Air," and promise a deeper dive on the topic...
The power of perspective
The story then backs up on itself. The scene is played again, she doesn't drop her keys, and makes the train.
The plot then splits into two parallel stories: all from a point of dissection...
Days of change
From rent control to principal forbearance to mounting regulation to healthcare, our world is evolving at a rapid clip. It is the best of times.
It is the worst of times. If you are underemployed,...
Things that matter: words
The former pro wrestler, Tyrus, who is partly of African-American descent, tells a story from his high school days of being annoyed by a boy who wore a shirt with an image of the...
Time is on our side
As a younger self, I watched mere mortals struggle against the will of the "Old Man" with a child's curiosity. Here I learned a simple truth. Quiet observation and analysis informs future events.
If you...
