Choose your words – and fewer of them, please!
That’s me – if I’m running a conference call, I tend to talk too much — even if we have an agenda, I wander off topic and I’m sure can be confusing to anybody on the call. On the flip side, I have been on a call where the same thing happens and find myself losing focus and checking email… so presumably this is happening to others, too. We are in such a rush, we have too much on our plates, we are trying to cram in way too many meetings, every day, every...
Read MoreGenerational Shoppers – The Millennial
Having been in the commercial real estate business for 30+ years, and a shopper myself, I recognize that different generations behave and respond differently. Needs, convenience, disposable income, time all things to consider. Each generation thinks the next one has it ‘easier’, although maybe it’s just DIFFERENT. Shopping centers, malls, town centers, strip centers – all have been around for a long time, and have seen style changes. The thing that seems to be...
Read MoreStressing out?
We all feel pressure and stress from time to time, some more than others. How we deal with it is key to how we feel and how we SEE the world we are in. I don’t know about you, but finding the BALANCE between personal and work lives can be tricky. Spouse, children, household, and most importantly our own health is at risk if we don’t take some time to breathe… Check out this article from...
Read MoreEntry-Level Job Opportunity: LEASE ADMINISTRATOR
The Stone Group Corporate Real Estate group is looking for immediate hire of a part of full-time Lease Administrator to work with its Transaction and Property Management teams in their Austin office. Job Description – Lease Administrator Salary starts at $15 per hour. Send resume to...
Read More13th Annual Power Luncheon
Want to hear about Austin’s transportation issues (like we all haven’t been affected?), options and solutions? Join me at the 13th Annual Power Luncheon! May 16, 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel 11:15am to 1:00pm Featured presenter: Mike Heiligenstein, Central TX Regional Mobility Authority Thanks to CREW Austin, CCIM, IREM, CTCAR, ULI, RECA and many, many more Austin commercial real estate organizations and...
Read MoreDoing business with your CCIM pin.
By Rosalie G Keszler, CCIM When asked what the value of the CCIM designation or “pin”, is to him, Eric Layne, CCIM, of the LH Layne Company, gave me a list of his CCIM-to-CCIM completed transactions. Networking seems easy when you have CCIM contacts all over the world, and especially important to Layne within his Texas backyard. During the time following the capital market crash and the ensuing recession, Layne was making incoming and outgoing referrals as well as working directly with...
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