If you can identify a single problem, and then find others with the same problem, you can start to determine if there is a market for your solution.  When there are enough people with the problem who are willing to pay, it can make sense to spend for a custom solution that you could then sell to others.

Depending on your needs, custom software can cost as much as you want to spend.

I think the BIGGEST RISK for all of us in our personal, professional lives is speed. Time is a very limited resource for us all. Time is how opportunities kind of come and go. If we talked a little bit earlier about being able to know if a property is going to go on the market before it does, being able to operate faster than the competition.

Retail trends in real estate continue to change with the and for the consumer.

Tom Londres is the CEO of Metro Commercial Real Estate Brokerage based in Philadelphia, PA.  The core business focuses on suburban retail strip centers, big box, community centers, supermarket anchored centers, and downtown urban.  They provide third party solutions for retailers, owners of retail and investors in the greater metro area, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

I would say if you own retail real estate and you have an exposure, um, high exposure to department stores and apparel retailers, I would say if your portfolio contains a large portion, the percentage of your occupancy, um, is coming from department stores or apparel retailers. I would say you need to rethink when those options come up.

If you have the opportunities to downsize to mitigate your risks, you have to inject, entertainment, you have to inject food, you have to inject convenience, services.

What is a 1031 Exchange?

If a taxpayer elects to exchange one property for a like kind property, they can transfer the tax and depreciation to the new property.  This transfer allows the seller to defer paying the tax normally due upon sale.

A lIke kind exchange allows the seller to sell one type of real estate and buy another.  The program is an incentive for real estate investors to keep their money in real estate.

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So the saddest, I'll give you the saddest phone call we get in this office. My sale closed yesterday. I want to do a 10 31 exchange. So the BIGGEST RISK is not talking to an exchange company and they get fixated on the 45 day deadline, which as I said is the worst deadline. But the biggest risk and the worst case scenario is they don't talk to a 10 31 exchange.

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Perfect Portfolio is focused on real estate, the stock market as a whole, via index funds, uh, and golden and silver. So that's what we're really, that's what we typically focus on. And the idea of a perfect portfolio throughout history and my research shows, if you are sort of between 40% in real estate, 40% in the stock market, 20% in golden silver, you are at a very, very good stable portfolio level.