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• How To Prepare A Commercial Loan Request Package

When preparing a loan request package for presentation to the lender, the real estate borrower must be as complete as possible the first time. Insufficient, imprecise, or incorrect data in a loan request package can mean a rejection ...

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• How Good Planning Helps Vacancies

When an investment property is located in an overbuilt market, the marketing effort must have good planning and direction. Just throwing large amounts of money into advertising can be a waste. Rather than broad advertising, a more direct action is ...

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• The Question of Value In A Shopping Center

When a person is either a buyer or a seller of a shopping center, the question of value for a sale is paramount. How do you appraise such a property? In commercial properties, there are three types of methods commonly used to establish a v...

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• Negotiating The Termination Of A Lease

One or both of the parties to a lease of commercial or office space may want to sever the relationship prior to the end of the lease term. A tenant may want to terminate the tenancy, for example, because his business has grown since he first m...

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• How To Finance A New Land Development

When an investor purchases land to build on, the next step is land development and financing. “Land development” cannot be precisely defined; generally, it refers to the physical, legal, and engineering processes needed to convert raw land to l...