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Grassland Investments Creates Dedicated Blog for Commercial Real Estate

By Emily

Do you have an interest in commercial real estate investing, but not know where to start?
Have you dipped your toe into the world of commercial real estate, but are now unsure of what’s coming next, given the changing economy?
Are you looking for a way to stay up to date on the news that affects commercial real estate WITHOUT being overwhelmed by dire headlines day after day?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll probably be glad to know that my real estate investing partners and I are joining forces to create a new blog focusing specifically on challenges and opportunities faced by real-life commercial real estate investors in today’s marketplace.

What Will The Commercial Real Estate Blog Focus On?

The new blog will focus on two things:

Timely news articles about what’s going on in the economy and how it affects real estate values today. Are we in a Recession or a Depression? What should we invest in during a recession? What are interest rates doing – are there any lenders still in business? Can they lend on your next project? When will the economy recover, how will we know, and what should we do about it when it happens?

We’ll be covering topics like these on a regular basis with a focus specifically on commercial real estate investment. As a group, on that blog we’ll try to avoid being distracted by some of the topics I write about here, like the stock market, small business, and the residential real estate market.
Commercial Real Estate Investing Resources – we want this to be an encyclopedia where we’ll share some of our best practices and real-life strategies for dealing with all sorts of things that come along in the world of commercial real estate investment. Here are some of the topics we’ll cover: real estate acquisition, financing strategies (including bank loans and raising private money), property management and managing your professional managers, keeping costs down, increasing profit margins, and knowing when to sell.

We hope to eventually attract some great contributing authors, add some audio and video, interview other experts and just plain have fun! It will be a friendly "help and be helped" environment, and we can’t wait to get it started.

We have not officially launched the site yet, we’re still building up our article library so we can be sure to have plenty of great content. In fact – we’d love to have your help TODAY in building that content! This is your chance to ask us all your questions for free and have the chance to read our detailed answers.

My partner Rob Powell just got a question from one of our clients about his strategy to acquire commercial property in Pittsburgh, PA and Rob asked all of us at Grasslands to take a crack at answering. A whole panel of experts at his disposal – and we’ll post the question and answers soon! I just wrote my reply and sent it off to Rob to post to the blog.

Send Us Your Toughest or Most Burning Real Estate Investment Questions!

Now it’s Your Turn! Email me (or comment below) with your best commercial real estate questions and I’ll pose them to our panel of experts. As soon as the blog is released (scheduled for January 2009), I’ll send you a link and you can find out exactly our opinions on the issues that mattered to you most!

On that note, if you have other questions for me about residential real estate, stocks, investing, budgeting, retirement planning, and the like, ask me those, too, and I’ll answer them right here on the blog.

Emily

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