TRAde SeCREts

What is Seller Financing and what are the pros and cons for the buyer and the seller.

Congratulations to Paige on her CCIM designation, and what do those fancy letters actually mean?

TRAde seCREts shakes things up in our most recent episode with a stand-in and welcomes Alyssa Falarski.Alyssa Falarski is Totum Realty Advisors latest team member and we'll celebrate her one-year anniversary with Totum next week!Kevin Riley, CCIM, SIOR, Michael Castle, and Alyssa Falarski dive into the fun of chasing vs. being the one being chased i.e. Alyssa’s BusinessDevelopment role at Totum Realty Advisors!

Here at Totum Realty Advisors, we view commercial real estate through three different sets of eyes. With 45 years combined experience, we often round table and discuss topics: current events, regulations, general stories and client experiences. Grab a bourbon with us and enjoy! We invite you to listen in, suggest topics and join us! Guests are welcome, as are comments and feedback. If you would like to throw an idea out for our podcast or join us sometime, email us!

If you’ve been following along the “Not A Typo” hype this podcast is for you! In TRAde seCREts most recent episode the Totum Realty Advisors team banters about how Kevin Riley, CCIM, SIOR likes to "zig when everyone else zags" according to Alan Lagunov. When the article came out in the Pittsburgh Business Times there were probably a million questions around “$3.50 PSF”, tune in to hear Kevin Riley, CCIM, SIOR, Michael Castle, and Paige Myers discuss if there was a thesis or if this was just a midlife crisis. 🤣 This old dog has a new trick - Michael Castle ends this fascinating episode with “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein

In TRAde seCREts most recent episode the Totum Realty Advisors team had the pleasure to sit down with Lynn Colosi a Senior Consultant at Delta Development Group, Inc. .Kevin Riley, CCIM, SIOR, Michael Castle, and Paige Myers dive into transportation and the bureaucracy of getting projects across the finish line, along with some (VERY) entertaining NSFW banter. 🤣 😂Thanks for joining us Lynn Colosi we appreciate the insightful and sharp-witted chat! To our followers; if like what you hear/see please give us a like, follow, or subscribe!

Totum Realty Advisors (Kevin Riley, CCIM, SIOR, Michael Castle, Paige Myers) had the pleasure to podcast this month with Jeremy Waldrup - President and CEO of Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership!Five statistics that may shock you:1.) Downtown is home to just over 400 retail, restaurant and service businesses and has welcomed 10 new businesses in 2023, and over 50 new businesses since pandemic lockdown restrictions have ended, indicating a growing and resilient small business ecosystem.2.) Workers are steadily returning to Downtown, with almost 20% more workers in Downtown that there were in May of 2022, averaging 90,000 people a day in the Triangle, 35% of pre-pandemic but continuing to build.3.) Restaurants in Downtown are thriving and, in some cases, surpassing pre-pandemic numbers, and these number are expected to rise this summer, with over 50 restaurants offering outdoor dining, and a packed schedule of festivals expecting to bring in hundreds of thousands of visitors to Downtown throughout the season.4.) The residential population of Downtown has grown by 20% since 2020, showing that the Triangle is continuing to evolved as a mixed-use neighborhood.5.) Downtown is home to just over 400 retail, restaurant and service businesses and has welcomed 10 new businesses in 2023, and over 50 new businesses since pandemic lockdown restrictions have ended, indicating a growing and resilient small business ecosystem.Jeremy Waldrup said it best " if you want transformation Downtown, you need to be a part of it yourself. Get involved, don't stand on the sidelines and expect things to magically happen on their own!" Thank you Jeremy Waldrup come back anytime!