Reviving Shopping Centers, Rule 4 - 05/31/08 03:03 PM
Leasing agents and landlords alike frequently lust over the idea of having a cinema as a high-presence tenant in their center. After all, cinemas bring lots of people, and its therefore reasoned that those people will shop the stores before and after the movie.
But what is frequently not addressed by … (5 comments)
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HOW TO PROTEST TEXAS PROPERTY TAX APPRAISALS -- Deadline May 31, 2008 - 05/29/08 10:03 AM
The property tax appraisal logic in Texas is this:
One entity will decide the appraised values of every taxable property in the county. These are called Central Appraisal Districts. There is a chief appraiser overseeing each district.
Using computer models and site visits, every piece of taxable property is given a … (2 comments)
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What's It with You People.... - 05/28/08 07:22 AM
...who put your home on the market then turn the utilities off and move? And on top of that, you make no provisions to keep the yard mowed, landscaping fresh looking, and the interior regularly cleaned?
And what is it with you agents who let them get away with this totally … (14 comments)
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THE LISTING'S MARKETING APPROACH WAS BANKRUPT - 05/25/08 07:33 AM
One of the things I do each morning is search the Multiple Listing Service to find and study each home that's listing has expired. What happened to cause disappointment?
With just the bare bones information that's given on the listing sheet, I try to figure out why the listing agent was … (7 comments)
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Title Company Over-Charges - 05/21/08 11:01 PM
I want to speak with you today about the selection of title insurance underwriters. For years the tradition has been for one or both of the Realtors involved in a sale to agree on a specific title company, office and escrow officer. The clients usually don't voice an opinion.
So while … (7 comments)
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What Would My Clients Write About Me If There Were A Realtors' Day? - 05/15/08 10:52 PM
Ever since W.L. Moody, Jr., gave me his worn copy of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People when I was about 12-years old, I've had this thing about making sure I'm around people who motivate me to both understand as well as improve myself.
It all started when I … (2 comments)
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Reviving Shopping Centers - Rule 4 - 05/14/08 10:44 PM
So I suppose this is logical: Because major big-box tenants attract a lot of shopping traffic, landlords usually give them cheap rents and big build-out allowances.
And small tenants have their rent rates burdened by their prorata part of those discounts. After all, without the big box traffic and marketing, most … (2 comments)
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BANG -- ANOTHER WAL-MART CLOSES - 05/11/08 07:42 AM
One day recently, Wal-Mart decided to close one of its "supercenters" in the Dallas suburb of Garland. One day the 250,000 square feet building that hovered over a big parking lot on Garland Road, just a few blocks from the LBJ Freeway, was there, the next day the only hint it … (30 comments)
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Reviving Shopping Centers - Rule 3 - 05/09/08 11:52 PM
There's been an expression around for a few years that dictates, "Think outside of the box." While it's overused, tired and annoying to hear these days, it still has a life. Here's a place where it does.
Throughout America are weird outdoor strip centers and worn out malls that are begging … (3 comments)
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THE MUSICAL ICON OF DALLAS' NORDSTROM - LARRY PETTY - 05/07/08 07:49 PM
Many of the Nordstrom stores throughout the United States have an interesting but subtle trademark, a trademark that has followed their merchandising for many years.
On the first floor adjacent to the escalator is a Steinway grand piano, and throughout the day one pianist after another plays the music of Broadway, Mancini, … (11 comments)
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DOROTHY DRAPER - IN THE PINK - 05/07/08 03:56 PM
There probably has never been a more famous American decorator than Dorothy Draper. Most projects that she did were larger than life projects - huge mansions of the wealthy - and by far her most famous, The Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, a landmark since the late 1770s. … (8 comments)
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BEST ADVICE EVER - 05/07/08 07:27 AM
From CNN-Money
Lenoard Lauder
Chairman, The Estée Lauder CompaniesThe best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estée Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her … (8 comments)
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YOU, INC. - 05/05/08 10:00 PM
For the majority of my life I've been a voracious reader.
When we were children just learning to read, we were introduced to what was the first free public library in Texas, Galveston's Rosenberg Library. There was a wonderful children's librarian there, Miss Emma Lee, who devoted her time and talent … (7 comments)
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