Commercial Real Estate Pro Network

Today, my guest is Philippe Lanier. Philippe Lanier is the principal at East Bank Inc, a DC based developer with 2 million plus square feet of trophy office, luxury retail and residential assets in the greater DC region. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Philippe Lanier about commercial real estate's evolving intersection with technology and culture. Eastbanc.com  

J Darrin Gross  I'd like to ask you, Philippe Lanier, what is the biggest risk?   Philippe Lanier Just to answer, because you gave me a little bit of a chain, one of the first important steps sitting in my feet. And to simplify for your audience, if you are an owner, you are an owner of real estate, is to recognize that the world changed and you lost a lot of money, and not bury your head in the sand. The value was fundamentally changed, and it's not coming back. And once you can emotionally get over that, you know, then you're then you're thinking about how to apply what I know and what I have left to rebuild it and to create something great. And that's where we are right now. I think the worst is in theory over and then, how do we reassess where we are as owners, what we've had lost, and how do we build something new? The you know, the biggest risk is if you haven't absorbed that, but you think that help is around the corner, if you run out of time, then you're out of the game. If the banks foreclose, then

Today, my guest is Josh Bauchner. Josh is a partner in the landlord tenant and litigation practices at Mandelbaum Barrett PC in New York. He brings a depth of experience and dedication to his practice, where he's involved in complex commercial litigation and class action lawsuits, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Josh Bauchner about the Nuisance ADA Lawsuits. https://mblawfirm.com/  

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Josh Bauchner, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Josh Bauchner Well, the biggest risk here is getting sued by one of these serial plaintiffs, with one of these attorneys who's just in it for for the fees. To answer your question, I think ADA compliance planning, bringing in one of these testers, like we discussed, to assess the premises and make any determinations as to what's not compliant, then do an assessment as to what the cost would be to potentially bring it into compliance. Is it something that you could readily do, putting up the handlebars in the bathroom stall, for example, perhaps changing the front entrance door to provide handicap accessibility, or is it cost prohibitive? If the bathroom is downstairs and you can install an elevator, there's really no way around that to gain access. And then the challenge becomes with respect to shifting that burden, the landlords are doing that right. So in most lease agreements, most commercial lease agreements, the landlords are

Today, my guest is Jennifer Brener Seay.  If you're a developer who wants your projects to become more than just buildings, today's episode is for you. Jennifer Brener Seay is the founder and CEO of Art Plus Artisans, who's rewriting the playbook on real estate development by transforming commercial real estate. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Jennifer Brener Seay about the ROI of Art. https://artplusartisans.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-brener-seay/  

J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, Jennifer Brener Seay, What is the BIGGEST RISK?   Jennifer Brener Seay So I'm going to give you two Darrin, one of the biggest risks, I think, is just having solid contracts, and the contracts are there to protect you from all different kinds of risks. So, you know, we're a small business. We've been in business for for 23 years. I think for a long time, I had a very simple contract that I don't think was probably protecting me from what could go wrong. And it was actually a real estate developer friend of mine, as we were going after and winning these bigger and bigger projects, you know, 15 floor ground up brand new builds, and we were going to be installing huge sculptures, he was like, You need a better contract. You need a better contract than this. So we really have worked to strengthen our contracts, to protect us, to protect the artists, to protect the clients, and in addition to that, or as a risk to the business and the economy, I, as a business

Today, my guest is Blake Rogers. Blake Rogers is the co founder at Steel Peak Properties. Steel Peak is a Southern California based real estate investment firm focused on acquiring and improving industrial outdoor storage assets throughout the western US, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Blake Rogers about outdoor storage properties.    https://steelpeakproperties.com/  

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Blake Rogers, What is the BIGGEST RISK?   Blake Rodgers Sure. So I think in in our space, we say this all the time to to our investors, because they ask us this question as well, what? What's, what do you think the biggest risk is here, guys with this asset class? For us, it's really, since we're buying single tenant deals. I think it's the single tenant nature of these deals. We're buying vacant sites a lot of the time. So the risk for us is you either lease it or you don't, and you either do it in the amount of time that you said you would or you don't. So that, I think that for us is just being hyper focused on, you know, how long is it going to take us to do this. What are all the other, you know, properties in this market leasing for making sure we have all the data and that we're and we're underwriting the amount of time that we need to to lease these up, and that we're buying a product that these tenants want, and that's not going to sit there for a long time, becaus

Today, my guest is George Otel. George is the seasoned entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in real estate and finance, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with George Otel about business finance. https://bizfunding.net/lander https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeotel/  

J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you, George Otel, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   George Otel The biggest risk when it comes to funding, is not looking for funding early enough, because the biggest risk is when people call me that they need funding yesterday. So it's I tell people you always have to look for funding, even if you don't need it, because when you need it, you may not find it where you may be. Tweaks. Expensive because of your situation. Let's say you got to look for funding when you're doing good, when you're doing great, because the lenders see less risk in you, because when, when you desperate, you you have a need your fire, fire you're burning, then that's a risk. So for the risk, they want to get more premium. So that's, that's how it works. The biggest risk is like, if, if you always got to look for funding, because it's you got to have funding options lined up, because you always growing. You're looking for equipment, you're looking for working capital, even lines of credit.

Today, my guest is Pete Neubig. Pete is the co founder and CEO of VPM solutions, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Pete Neubig about the Benefits of Hiring a Remote Team.    https://www.vpmsolutions.com/  

J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Pete Neubig, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Pete Neubig So the biggest risk for VPM, well, I would say for us, the biggest risk is, at the end of the day, we're a payment processor, okay? You know, even though we have all these whistles and bells where you have this marketplace and you have these searches and you have this training, you have this video, if I can't pay people, I'm out of business. And so my biggest risk is that we are connected to stripe, and if stripe decides to cancel or go belly up. You know that I cannot process payroll. So to me, that's my biggest risk. So I do what I can to make sure that my relationship with stripe is good. And you know the challenge with having a payment processor, it's not normal to have two of them, and so we don't have to payment process. That's my biggest risk.   https://www.vpmsolutions.com/  

Today, my guest is Marcy Sagel. She's the founder and principal of MSA interiors, with over 30 years of experience shaping multifamily housing, student living and senior housing and more. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Marcy Sagel about From Blueprints to Brilliance, designing multi family spaces that rent.  https://msainteriors.com/  

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Marcy Sagel, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Marcy Sagel I'm going to answer that in a few parts, because there's different aspects of the job that can be different risks. So when we pick materials for a project, we have to make sure we're working with tried and true materials, okay, materials that are not going to fail on a job, for instance, in the units, if we select a, you know, vinyl plank flooring, we want to make sure it's going to last. So we only work with manufacturers that we know are going to give us a solid product, not we're not trying to test some new product on different people. We really want to make sure that those stand the test of time from a risk standpoint. So that's probably one of the biggest things. The second thing is the furniture. We also specify all of the furniture, and are an installation. So we put all of the furniture into warehouses, and we have to make sure that the warehouses are bonded and insured and going to be doing replacement if there's

Today, my guest is Lissette Calderon. Lissette is the founder and CEO of Neology Group, a vertically integrated, lifestyle driven residential and commercial real estate firm that specializes in transforming undervalued neighborhoods into sought after communities, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Lissette Calderon about solving for housing's greatest need, a focus on workforce communities.  https://neologylife.com/  

J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Lissette Calderon, What is the BIGGEST RISK?   Lissette Calderon Well, I think in today's world, probably the biggest risk you have is uncertainty. And how do you underwrite uncertainty? You know what happens next? How do you underwrite whether it's Harris insurance numbers, construction costs, what does that uncertainly look like, and what, how do you underwrite that? So, you know, how do we do it? You know, we really can't avoid it because, you know, we're developers. So of course, our job is, you know, we really think about a how do we minimize it? So we make sure that, you know, every project, you know, is built, oftentimes, by the same team, the same architect, the same project, and, you know, same contractor, and so forth. And then, you know, we enter into a guaranteed maximum price contract, so ahead of time, we already know what that number is going to look like. Of course, we're building contingencies. So we minimize those uncertainties, so that

Today, my guest is Allen Buchanan. Allen Buchanan is an S, I, O, R, and is a nationally recognized commercial real estate broker, columnist, speaker and creator of the sequence success framework. He's also a principal at Lee and Associates in Orange County, California, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Allen Buchanan about building a successful career in commercial real estate.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenbuchanan/ http://www.allencbuchanan.com/  

J Darrin Gross If you're willing, I'd like to ask you. Allen Buchanan, What is the BIGGEST RISK?   Allen Buchanan Darrin, for me, the BIGGEST RISK is relevance. And I use this in a micro sense, in a macro sense. The micro sense is, I'm 68 years old, and so I realized that I'm on the back nine, maybe the last three holes of my career. And so maintaining relevance with those with whom I deal, first and foremost, family members, clients, friends, etc, there's then a relevance in terms of the commercial real estate profession. I know you've had guests on your podcast that specialize in artificial intelligence, and if you look at the ways in which artificial intelligence is chipping away at what all of us in the sales profession do, you'd have to realize that there's a greater risk that at some day, commercial real estate brokers become, you know, irrelevant. So to me, that's the biggest risk that we face, both on a micro and a macro level, going forward.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/allenbuchanan/ http://www.alle

Today, my guest is Bob Lachance. Bob Lachance is the founder and CEO of Riva Global, the leading virtual assistant staffing company for real estate investor professionals. Excuse me for real estate professionals, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Bob LaChance about virtual assistants for real estate professionals.   https://revaglobal.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/boblachance/  

J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Bob Lachance, what is the BIGGEST RISK?     Bob Lachance Well, for my virtual I'll give you two answers. My virtual assistant company, it is AI, so stepping ahead of that, and in being aware of that and training our virtual assistants be to become experts on that, that now gives me the insurance I need to stay in business as a real estate professional, I would say, you know, if your niche is rehabbing properties or niches commercial, train yourself on another niche, just in case something happens, right? So, for instance, in the residential real estate world, wholesaling is starting to become more challenging in some states. So if you're just a wholesaler as an example, start buying and holding to offset those risks. Start learning how to rehab to offset so offset those risks. So it's really putting more tools in your tool belt and whatever industry you're in. So I would say that would be, that'd be something to do. And I started real estate 21 years ago, and where you st