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Invisible Real Estate Costs

How to root out "invisible" real estate costs lurking in your portfolio

Choosing the Right Real Estate Firm

How do you determine if a real estate firm is a great fit for your Company?

Lease Audit

Understanding Lease Audits and who would benefit from them

Real Estate Brokers

Getting the most out of your real estate broker

Rolling Out Multiple Locations

As the adage goes, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time”.

Case Studies

Unlocking the Value of Brownfield Property

WestPoint Home (formerly WestPoint Stevens), a manufacturer of bed linens, bath towels and other home soft goods.

National Contract Leads to Streamlined Process

Avon Products, Inc., a $10+ billion global manufacturer and marketer of cosmetics, fragrances, toiletries, jewelry, apparel and home furnishings.

Resourcefulness Solves Zoning Problem

EmployBridge, a national employment services company with a portfolio of complementary brands, including ProLogistix, ProDrivers, ResourceMFG, Resource Accounting, Personnel One, and Staffing Solutions.

Recovering Lease Overpayments

WestPoint Home, a $1.7 billion maker of bed linens and home soft goods.

$4 Million Lease Dispute Resolved

Spherion, a $2 billion recruiting and staffing company providing temporary, temp-to–hire and direct-hire help, in addition to professional and executive recruitment, to a variety of fields including Accounting/Finance, Human Resources, Engineering, Legal and Technology.

Podcasts

Choosing the Right Real Estate Firm

Learn how to determine if a real estate firm is a good fit for your company

Hidden Real Estate Costs

Learn how to root out invisible real estate costs lurking in your portfolio.

Smart Words

Modular

Modern modular design, construction and furnishings save money and the environment.

Prevention

You might just avoid thousands of dollars of theft and property damage by setting up roving property security patrols to aid loss prevention.

Usage

Your company could save thousands, maybe millions, of dollars by understanding the usage of each leased facility.

Values

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Ralph Inge, English Author

Base Year

When renewing your lease, establish a new base year for common area operating expenses (CAM) and real estate tax recoveries.

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Outsource

One way to increase operating flexibility and accelerate cost savings is to outsource repetitive tasks.

Class (redux)

We think this savings opportunity is worth repeating.

Alert

The FASB (U.S. accounting standards body) is working on a significant change in lease accounting standards.

Audit

Save time and money by hiring specialists to periodically audit your leases.

Metric

Which metric best defines the true worth of your leased property?

TARP

Outside of Wall Street, TARP really means “Tenant’s Audit Rights Provision”. Do your leases contain this crucial protection?

Prune

A sure way to improve your bottom line is to prune your portfolio regularly. Each year, rank every property using a reliable metric.

Feedback

Feedback is a critical part of learning and learning is the first step to improving.

Feedback (Results)

In our most recent Smart Word email, we asked for your feedback on several questions. A brief summary of the results are below:

Class

Trading down the class of property you lease could smash your occupancy costs.

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