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Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Nobody can fix your lease-up for you

Feb 15, 2026

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9 min read

🏙️ Nobody can fix your lease-up for you

Build a leasing process that scales, THEN hand it off

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Malls used to be blue-chip too

Feb 8, 2026

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8 min read

🏙️ Malls used to be blue-chip too

Riding the office rebound before the decline starts...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ What I'd tell my younger self...

Feb 1, 2026

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8 min read

🏙️ What I'd tell my younger self...

The four things I might have done a little differently.

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
Real estate person to real estate person, please be nice

Jan 30, 2026

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4 min read

Real estate person to real estate person, please be nice

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Don't wait for bids

Jan 25, 2026

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9 min read

🏙️ Don't wait for bids

Why you should know your CapEx numbers by heart

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ "The 20-year test" for CRE partnerships

Jan 18, 2026

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8 min read

🏙️ "The 20-year test" for CRE partnerships

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

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ The highest IRR lever no one talks about

Jan 11, 2026

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8 min read

🏙️ The highest IRR lever no one talks about

One skipped checkbox can cost $700k...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Your "anti-resolution" for 2026

Jan 4, 2026

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8 min read

🏙️ Your "anti-resolution" for 2026

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

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Stop talking like a landlord

Dec 28, 2025

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8 min read

🏙️ Stop talking like a landlord

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

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Why we took less...

Dec 21, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ Why we took less...

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

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Everyone's WRONG about AI...

Dec 14, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ Everyone's WRONG about AI...

More reps, more decisions, more output.

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

Dec 7, 2025

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9 min read

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

What my mentors taught me about life and business.

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

Nov 30, 2025

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9 min read

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

The tech stack that carried me through 2025

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Capital is not your problem (your deal is)

Nov 23, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ Capital is not your problem (your deal is)

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

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ $30M in deal flow from one conversation

Nov 16, 2025

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10 min read

🏙️ $30M in deal flow from one conversation

The compounding nature of relationships in real estate...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ When you're actually ready for a fund

Nov 9, 2025

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12 min read

🏙️ When you're actually ready for a fund

Have you hit "the inflection point" yet?

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ A 3-minute trick for finding the best brokers in any market

Nov 2, 2025

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10 min read

🏙️ A 3-minute trick for finding the best brokers in any market

The AI hack that saves me hours of time...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ An $85,000 lesson on building wealth

Oct 26, 2025

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11 min read

🏙️ An $85,000 lesson on building wealth

This is exactly how you win in real estate over the long term.

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ The small bay land grab

Oct 19, 2025

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11 min read

🏙️ The small bay land grab

Flavor of the month or generational opportunity?

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ The office recovery signal hiding in plain sight

Oct 12, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ The office recovery signal hiding in plain sight

While everyone watches vacancy rates, smart investors are tracking employee vs. employer power.

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ A Roth conversion hack for real estate developers

Oct 5, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ A Roth conversion hack for real estate developers

Wealth advisors have been using this quietly for years.

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ Skip the 1031 scramble

Sep 28, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ Skip the 1031 scramble

The 19-year-old tax strategy hiding in plain sight

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ $4 to $7 per foot with one conversation

Sep 21, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ $4 to $7 per foot with one conversation

Sometimes the biggest wins come from a simple strategy...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ The "four value" framework

Sep 14, 2025

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8 min read

🏙️ The "four value" framework

Start building creative, mutually-beneficial partnerships with brokers...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
🏙️ The NNN conversion playbook

Sep 7, 2025

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9 min read

🏙️ The NNN conversion playbook

No renovations. No rent increases. Just reconstructing...

Saul Zenkevicius
Saul Zenkevicius
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Each Sunday, you’ll get 5-minute reads packed with the value-add strategies I used to build a 9 figure CRE portfolio, plus key news and Fed updates to keep you sharp.