Recently, I received my digital Architect magazine, and while I was reviewing it, one story hit me like a ton of bricks. It is no secret; I own a recruiting/staffing agency, not an architectural firm. What so surprised me about the story was that it hit me where I live, MY small recruiting business.
The article is about [...]

What are the three characteristics of an excellent real estate analyst?

A strong facility with Excel - While this goes without saying, one of the fundamental problems when employers try to evaluate candidate Excel skills is that when they ask candidates in an interview how their Excel skills are, all of the candidates naturally say, “They’re great!” And can [...]

                    
Welcome to the REFM Commercial Real Estate Company Directory! The Directory is an ever-expanding list of commercial real estate owners, operators, developers, investors and other principal stakeholders.
Job seekers and market analysts, have you checked out the REFM CRE Company Directory yet? It is a quick and easy way to identify the players in a [...]

                      
The answer to this question seems clear. Of course you would change. The thought that obstacles would not occur in life or business is an unreal idea. Ask yourself, “Can I handle obstacles?” Again we go back to, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail.” Lina Sanchez talks about it in her article [...]

In today’s post, we will look at the basics of Future Value and Present Value, using a $100 Time Zero amount and an assumed annual growth rate of 4.00%. Follow the input commands on your financial calculator to solve for the Future Value at the end of Year 1 and the Present Value of the [...]

Want a ready-to-bake project? The American Institute of Architects has done a great job executing on their vision of assembling a listing of what it calls “stalled” projects. They currently have over 30 projects nationwide, and the AIA serves as matchmaker if you want to inquire about a project. Accessing the database requires that you [...]

Over 200 joined us for last week’s webinars on the 2011 Annual Report on the Real Deals Joint Venture Equity Partnership Database! If you missed learning about how deals got done in 2011, included here is a video replay of the webinar, and the accompanying slides as well. Click below to learn about 5 Surprise [...]

Problem
You have a multi-tab spreadsheet, and it is taking you too long to get from one sheet to another.
Example
Let’s say you are in cell B27 on the Assumptions tab, which reports the Investor IRR as of the last month in the model, and that this value flows into B27 from cell BH185 in the Waterfall [...]

Social media seems to be everywhere these days.  More than likely you are using it to stay connected with friends and family, post pictures of your vacation and organize your class reunion.  So why does your firm need to be a part of social media, and how could it possibly benefit your firms bottom line?
To [...]

When I got a call from a peer the other day, he had already been banging his head against the wall for an hour as to why a loan repayment formula wasn’t working for him. I opened the model and looked at it for about 60 seconds, and then told him that the formula was [...]