Live Excel, but Remote

The one nice thing about this whole COVID-19 mess is that it’s forcing companies and organizations to fully embrace the power of remote training. For years, I’ve had the ability to deliver classes remotely, but companies still insisted on flying me all...

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....