Abate or Adjust?

With the advent of the COVID-19 event, it’s become clear that a number of residential and commercial tenants are not going to able to pay their rent in a timely manner. While there’s been a lot of ink spilled about residential tenants, very little has been...

Talking to an Empty Room

When I first starting teaching real estate finance, Excel, Argus, and all of the combinations of those three things, everything was done live. This was back in the early 2000s. I didn’t have a viable remote option; the options that were available were slow,...

Sound Control and Silly Putty

As I’ve mentioned in previous issues, I’m building a 5,000 SF coworking development in Verona, NJ. We open in May. In order to make this happen, I reached out to a number of potential competitors and did some “secret shopping”. One thing became...

Kahr Notes (Part 2)

Way back in 2002, I started a little newsletter called “Kahr Notes”. I ran it for around 10 years, and then sometime in 2012, a combination of ennui brought on by too much travel mixed with a lack of time brought on by too much work led to its death....