In this issue
- Physical Inspection Of Investment Property
When a buyer makes an offer on an investment property, it is usually only after a thorough inspection of all of the data that is available on the financial records of the building. The physical inspection of the property could be as important or more important than the rents and expenses. Some investors pay more attention to the data than the structure. With a physical inspection on the potential investment property, a buyer may be able to:....
(more) Statistics show business and professional firms are buying offices rather than leasing. While buying or constructing an entire building is an option for major corporations or for smaller firms outside metropolitan areas, owning commercial space generally means being part of a condominium structure.........
(more)- Property Values Around A New Hospital
What happens to nearby property values when a new hospital is built? Usually the surrounding area feels a ripple effect. No matter how old the buildings that surround a new hospital complex are, land values increase. Developers are quick to provide new space for offices and stores. The biggest profits are realized by the investors who get involved early (during the planning stages) before or while the hospital is being built. As a new hospital is being built, the surrounding area around it will began to improve by demolishing older building and revamping existing buildings to create ancillary businesses. Among the new activities that create an abnormal demand on land located near the hospital are:....
(more)- The Protection Of Confidential Information
Typically, a landlord has access to leased premises at all times for purposes of making repairs and inspections. But in today’s information age, many tenants have valuable trade secrets, confidential information, and unique documentation in tapes, CDs, DVDs, listings, and other intellectual property that should not be accessible to the landlord. A software company tenant, for example, should try to obtain the right in the lease to maintain locked documentation rooms where even the landlord’s janitorial and maintenance people have no access and the landlord is given no copies of keys, pass cards, or cipher lock combinations to the additional locks installed by the tenant on the documentation room door.....
(more)- How To Find Commercial Tenants
At all times, good or bad, we must aggressively search for replacement tenants. A month’s rent from a vacant unit can never be recovered. Just running expensive advertising for this space can be nonproductive. A better way might be to have a professional management company that keeps all local brokers who specialize in leasing informed of the advantages and amenities of the building. Here are some other ideas:.....
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