BIGGEST RISK with Pamela Eyring
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Pamela Eyring, what is the BIGGEST RISK?, Pamela Eyring I think the biggest risk that you can control, but is the assumption that your people that you've hired or even has worked for your company for. Long period of time knows what they don't know. And I think that assumption is a risk, because a lot of times they say, Well, you should already know this. This is common sense, but it's not, not today. You can't control the tariffs. You can't control the political scene right now, or war. We have no control over that, but we have control over our people...
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Landlord Tenant Law with Niv Davidovich - CRE PN # 550
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Today, my guest is NIV Davidovich. Nib is the managing partner of Davidovich stone Law Group, a landlord centered law firm in California, providing a full slate of legal services to the landlord, property manager and developer communities. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with NIV Davidovich about landlord tenant law and related topics there. E: Ph: 818-661-2420
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BIGGEST RISK with Niv Davidovich
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Niv Davidovich, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Niv Davidovich Risk in being a real estate owner? J Darrin Gross However you wanted to. It's up to you to find what you consider to be the biggest risk. Niv Davidovich I guess I'm I'm somewhat tainted, because the things that I deal with are either the expensive evictions or the expensive or difficult habitability claims. So to me, I'm always going to see that as the potential risk. I can't really necessarily speak to market conditions, you know, because I think the people who bought the offices...
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Surety Bonds for Commercial Real Estate Development with Gary Eastman - CRE PN #549
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Today, my guest is Gary Eastman. Gary is an attorney turned entrepreneur who has built a thriving national surety bond brokerage business into one of the most misunderstood sectors of finance, or in one of the most misunderstood sectors of finance, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Gary about performance bonding, also known as charity bonding.
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BIGGEST RISK with Gary Eastman
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Gary Eastman, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Gary Eastman Okay, so this is a great question, and I think there are two risks that kind of embed themselves in everything that we see today, at least from the surety bond perspective. One financing risk, right? Because those are the you know, the amount of capital available is going down if the cost of capital is going up. And the second part is labor. We are, we're short of labor, and so we're going to continue to be short of labor. So those two things are an interplay all the time. And so we see, you know,...
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Bitcoin Mining with Beau Turner - CRE PN #548
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Today, my guest is Beau Turner. Beau Turner is the founder of Abundant Mines, a Bitcoin mining company built with one purpose to make passive crypto and infrastructure investing simple, secure and sustainable. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Beau Turner about demystifying Bitcoin.
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BIGGEST RISK with Beau Turner
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Beau Turner, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Beau Turner Well, I think the Bitcoin network itself is very challenging to find any sort of risk in, and I think that would be surprising to most people to hear. But part of the reason it is such an incredible innovation is how it is designed to be resilient in almost any case. I mean, like, short of a forever nuclear winter and the Internet going down forever everywhere, there's not really a legitimate way to take this network out. So what I would say the risk is for our business, since we're in the mining space, is...
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Commercial Real Estate Law with Andy Mathews - CRE PN #547
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Today, my guest is Andy Matthews. Andy is a real estate lawyer at Stoel Rives LLP in Seattle, Washington, and in just a minute, we're going to speak with Andy Matthews about Real Estate Law.
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BIGGEST RISK with Andy Mathews
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you. Andy Matthews, what is the BIGGEST RISK? Andy Mathews Well, that's a great question, and I know you framed it as switching gears from our last topic, but I think there's a way in which it, it is related to the use of things like AI. And my answer is, the biggest risk that I can think of is failure to stay on top of the things that that impact you and your industry or your your realm, and that applies equally to to me and my clients. I mean my clients, like I said, you know, if we're still using the the AI example, ignore AI and its and its offerings...
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AI Adoption and Implementation with Michelle Hamilton - CRE PN #546
Commercial Real Estate Pro Network
Today, my guest is Michelle Hamilton. Michelle Hamilton spent 30 years as a strategic leader in commercial real estate and the AEC sector, before focusing on one of the biggest challenges in enterprise technology, the gap between AI investment and actual workforce adoption. She founded spark AI strategy to help organizations close the gap, and was recently recruited by answer rocket, a global AI transformation firm serving mid market and fortune 2000 companies to design and lead their new AI adoption and change management division. And in just a minute, we're going to speak with Michelle about...
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I'd like to ask you, Nick Deangelo, what is the BIGGEST RISK?
Nic Deangelo
The biggest risk, I'll give you the biggest front side and the biggest backside. Biggest front side is always going to be due diligence on our side, we have beaten that to death. We have overlaid many economic factors. Our due diligence confidence is at an all time high. But what I see in the marketplace is many people not doing the due diligence to a real, true conservative estimate of outcomes that is the biggest risk. And we saw that the last few years. And we see the back end of what that looks like, the optimistic, the rosy projections, things like that, and that's consistently what we see. And then on the back end, let's talk portfolio strategy. We have over 600 mortgages. We got, you know what, 19 syndications that we've done, the number one risk that I've seen on that side is not thinking long term. I know I beat that to death, but in the same vein of the underwriting and being over rosy with your projections and not really looking at the real numbers and the real economic data on the back end of a portfolio, if you're not thinking long term, and you're not thinking. How these pieces come together, and you're not thinking about how the management performs consistently over a long period of time, then you see shortcuts evolve. You see bad systems evolve. You see all kinds of shorter term thinking that lead to much bigger, snowballed problems later on. So if people are heavy on their due diligence on the front end and know exactly what they're trying to target and whether or not something is specifically in their Buy Box or not, and how to get that information effectively. That's one piece. And then on the back end, it's building everything for stress testing over a long period of time, thinking about a portfolio in that same vein. So if you're doing those two things, I think you're going to be very, very, very well hedged against stress and risk in the future.