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🏙️ How to become the buyer that brokers call first

Feb 22, 2026

🏙️ How to become the buyer that brokers call first

Most investors flip the order and wonder why their phone stays quiet...

Feb 15, 2026

🏙️ Nobody can fix your lease-up for you

Build a leasing process that scales, THEN hand it off

Feb 8, 2026

🏙️ Malls used to be blue-chip too

Riding the office rebound before the decline starts...

Feb 1, 2026

🏙️ What I'd tell my younger self...

The four things I might have done a little differently.

Jan 30, 2026

Real estate person to real estate person, please be nice

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Real estate person to real estate person, please be nice

Jan 30, 2026

Real estate person to real estate person, please be nice

🏙️ Don't wait for bids

Jan 25, 2026

🏙️ Don't wait for bids

Why you should know your CapEx numbers by heart

🏙️ "The 20-year test" for CRE partnerships

Jan 18, 2026

🏙️ "The 20-year test" for CRE partnerships

How one strict filter saves you from deals gone bad...

🏙️ The highest IRR lever no one talks about

Jan 11, 2026

🏙️ The highest IRR lever no one talks about

One skipped checkbox can cost $700k...

🏙️ Your "anti-resolution" for 2026

Jan 4, 2026

🏙️ Your "anti-resolution" for 2026

Your goals are already within reach, you just need to prune first...

🏙️ Stop talking like a landlord

Dec 28, 2025

🏙️ Stop talking like a landlord

The $100M playbook behind 98% occupancy...

🏙️ Why we took less...

Dec 21, 2025

🏙️ Why we took less...

Rural King, a dead Macy's, and a decision that can't be modeled in Excel.

🏙️ Everyone's WRONG about AI...

Dec 14, 2025

🏙️ Everyone's WRONG about AI...

More reps, more decisions, more output.

🏙️ I turned 46 yesterday. Here's who got me here...

Dec 7, 2025

🏙️ I turned 46 yesterday. Here's who got me here...

What my mentors taught me about life and business.

🏙️ 3 years of productivity tech in 1 email (rebuilt)

Nov 30, 2025

🏙️ 3 years of productivity tech in 1 email (rebuilt)

The tech stack that carried me through 2025

🏙️ Capital is not your problem (your deal is)

Nov 23, 2025

🏙️ Capital is not your problem (your deal is)

If investment is running from you, listen to it...

🏙️ $30M in deal flow from one conversation

Nov 16, 2025

🏙️ $30M in deal flow from one conversation

The compounding nature of relationships in real estate...

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