Archive for the 'Due Diligence' Category

31 Mar

Commercial Real Estate’s Recessionary Illusion

We are witnessing more and more vacant commercial real estate space. How many office buildings or retail buildings with vacant space really have to be vacant? Too many asset managers expect to re-lease expired leases at the same or higher rent. This type of thinking is either the product of a masochistic, naive or foolish […]

17 Mar

Of Bernie and Due Diligence

Following is an electronic copy of the Friday 13th Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook, titled “Of Bernie and Bonuses.” The third paragraph states “At one end of his trail of victims are people of modest means who misplaced a natural instinct to trust. Their losses shock and madden everyone. At the other, among the […]

13 Jan

Minimizing Income Property Investment Risk in 2009

The headline on the front page of the December 22, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal read: “Developers Ask U.S. For Bailout As Massive Debt Looms.” Obviously, these developers didn’t follow NetGain’s recommendations.
John Neville Keynes (1852-1949), the English economist and father of the famous economist John Maynard Keynes, said: “A positive science may be […]

29 Jul

How does one find owner information for income property?

The most efficient approach for getting the names and information of income property owners is to identify where there are lists available. NetGain offers two suggestions.
(1) There are list companies that will search and design lists of names and addresses for you. NetGain doesn’t endorse vendors, but if you google “mail list companies” and “international […]