Should You Be Friends With Your Investors?
It's an adage for some: never mix business with friendship. But savvy entrepreneurs have discovered that there's no one better to get into business with than friends. The same internal barometer you use to assess the quality of your friendshi...
Never Forget That Not All Commercial Real Estate Is Office
A current read of the nation's business press brings a sense that the entire commercial real estate space has entered a doom loop from which there is no escape. But that would be a misguided - and potentially costly - assessment for i...
Self Storage Is Riding High: Is This the Beginning, or the End?
The self-storage industry is booming, but is it sustainable? Our industry - I run a self-storage company - has been showing up in the financial press's headlines lately as investors and operators grow with Americans' desires to store their poss...