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@bavedikian "Commercial real estate owners understandably hate spending money on vacant space on a speculative basis which is essentially betting on the come. But keeping vacancies clean and presentable makes a massive difference in leasing results. Most tenants have little imagination and when they see a dirty or neglected space they assume the landlord will be a nightmare to deal with. You have to make it EASY for tenants to remember your property and want to be there"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-14T21:57Z 6412 followers, 4882 engagements

"The second the CEO of a real estate company calls it a software company you should immediately run the other way as fast as you can. Every real estate company thats tried to rebrand itself as a software company has failed. Opendoor will be no different. No matter how much software you build if your core business is flipping houses youre a house flipping businessnot a software or tech company. Im sure all these people Opendoor is hiring are brilliant including the CEO. But brilliance doesnt change the brutal economics of flipping homes at national scale. The meme / cult stock crowd has handed"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-11T04:35Z 6412 followers, 24.5K engagements

"Its important to know your audience and adjust your language and communication style accordingly. When you work with owners of commercial real estate theyre usually familiar with real estate terms and deal structures and you can talk to them in real estate speak. When you work with tenants they arent in the real estate business dont care about the jargon and just want to understand how the deal impacts their business. Its very difficult to built trust with clients if you speak in your own language instead of theirs"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-15T15:28Z 6412 followers, XXX engagements

"My two oldest kids have been asking to sell lemonade. After an hour the neighborhood security guard came up and said I hate to have to do this but several neighbors have called asking me to shut down the lemonade stand. There are some grumpy miserable people out there. Dont be one of them"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-05T21:31Z 6376 followers, 306.3K engagements

"Its beyond me why Lululemon would sue Costco over knockoff designs claiming customers incorrectly believe these infringing products are authentic Lululemon apparel. By suing Lululemon is basically admitting that a $XX knockoff is indistinguishable from the $XXX pair they sell. Thats a wild thing to put on record if you are Lululemon If they didn't sue I wouldve never known. But now I must find out how indistinguishable this $XX version really is. Why draw attention to a comparison you dont want anyone making Why not just stay quiet"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-15T00:27Z 6410 followers, 186.1K engagements

"When it comes to raising/providing capital for commercial real estate deals heres the simplest way to think about it. If youre the one raising capital equity is less risky and more expensive while debt is more risky and less expensive. If youre the one providing capital equity carries more risk but offers more upside while debt carries less risk but offers fixed returns"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-07T14:29Z 6377 followers, 7754 engagements

"You have to take 1000 hours of training to get a barbers license in Texas. But you only have to take XXX hours of a bogus online course to get a real estate license. Your hair will grow back if you get a bad haircut. Your money will not grow back if you lose millions because you hired a residential agent for your commercial deal"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-08T23:43Z 6398 followers, 15.5K engagements

"Let me explain why people fly private: I was on the phone today while on a commercial flight that had just left the gate. We werent anywhere close to taking off. A flight attendant came up to me aggressively and said: Get off the phone Now I let the person I was talking to finish their sentence then said I had to call them back. Less than XX seconds later she storms back and says: Are you going to hang up that phone or do I need to tell the pilot to return to the gate and remove you from this plane I hang up. Then the plane sits there for over an hourdoesnt move an inch. The weather was"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-07T02:00Z 6376 followers, 175.8K engagements

"I tried to order a pizza over the phone. The pizza place uses an AI agent to answer calls. The AI couldnt place the order. It tried about XX times ran into an error each time. After X minutes I hung up and got food somewhere else. No telling how much revenue theyre losing trying to get fancy with AI. At this point in history AI is unreliable inconsistent and rudimentary. Putting it in positions where you lose revenue if it fails is a terrible idea"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-02T01:06Z 6376 followers, 130.8K engagements

"@CREdebtlawyer You'd be surprised how much lease securitization (or lack thereof) is overlooked at properties with lots of tenants. Many will assume tenants will continue to pay if they're paying now in their underwriting"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-09T00:32Z 6389 followers, XXX engagements

"@CryptoCX1 Wow youve been lucky. I have nightmare experiences with delays frequently on all X of those airlines"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-07T04:10Z 6377 followers, 2462 engagements

"Then why do almost all institutional investors want to front load leases with free rent to get a higher face rate Free rent delays NOI increases yes. But buildings sell on a multiple of NOI so if you wait it out the free rent doesnt reduce NOI. I agree that a knowledgeable investor will underwrite free rent for new deals and renewals done after the purchase. But often times free rent given a couple years ago is ignored"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-05T15:48Z 6412 followers, XXX engagements

"@KurtisHanni How would you envision on platform monetization working"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-12T03:13Z 6396 followers, 1601 engagements

"Its surprisingly common for commercial tenants to neglect their upcoming lease expiration and be forced to ask the landlord for a short-term extension while they figure out what to do next. When this happens I like to tell the tenant theyll need to pay holdover rent but that well credit it back if they sign a long-term extension within a certain amount of time. If they leave they paid holdover (as they should have) and if they stay they arent penalized for the delay. Each month they remain in holdover it becomes more expensive to leave and easier to stay"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-12T17:03Z 6412 followers, 17.8K engagements

"Non-recourse debt is when a lender is willing to base collateral solely on the asset and give up the right to sue the borrower personally if the loan isnt repaid. Recourse debt is when the lender retains the right to pursue the borrowers personal assets if the debt isnt repaid. A lease without a personal guarantee is when a landlord accepts the risk that rent wont be paid if the company leasing the space goes out of business. A lease with a personal guarantee is when the landlord requires the right to make the business owner pay the rent out of personal funds if the company leasing the space"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-08T14:10Z 6412 followers, 16K engagements

"@IIICapital Weird this sounds familiar. Oh right thats because I wrote it"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-05T17:13Z 6376 followers, 14.3K engagements

"The more I use ChatGPT on topics I am an expert in the clearer it becomes that relying on it for things Im not an expert in is downright dangerous"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-06T03:14Z 6376 followers, 74.5K engagements

"American Airlines is the worst airline in the country. DFW is the worst airport in the country. The only reason there isnt a Netflix documentary about the AA / DFW love story is because the government would never allow that level of federally supervised and sanctioned incompetence to be made public"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-08T02:16Z 6411 followers, 11.6K engagements

"One of the under-discussed parts of what it takes to have a successful career in commercial real estate brokerage is how many things you have to be competent at. Unlike software or other industries where you hand clients off to onboarding once you win the business the work has only just begun when you win a new listing. Winning the business gets you nowhere if you cant execute. You have to be competent at many things to be good at both sourcing business and executing it"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-13T17:21Z 6409 followers, 3356 engagements

"Owners of commercial real estate offer free rent for one simple reason. The value of the building is tied to net operating income so lowering the rental rate lowers the buildings value but free rent doesnt. Most tenants account for rent expense on a straight-line basis so free rent up front lowers their total occupancy cost throughout the lease term. When buying a building make sure you pay close attention to how much free rent was given to the tenants and underwrite accordingly"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-03T18:07Z 6398 followers, 20.6K engagements

"I recently spoke to the owner of a fairly large small business who said as a matter of policy no one at the company makes six figures (besides him). And that the policy will never change. I expect this strategy to age poorly"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-09T17:55Z 6403 followers, 30.3K engagements

"X should stop creator payouts. If I was here for the payouts the $XXXXXX that X paid me over the last two weeks would be the lowest per hour job Ive ever had and Id quit. But nobody legitimate is here for the payouts. The structure of this platform will never support YouTube-level creator payouts. The money X pays out doesnt result in better content. If anything it leads to more bad content. That money would be much better spent improving the product"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-11T23:19Z 6412 followers, 156.7K engagements

"One hilarious part of working with people fresh out of college is the lingo they use. A guy on our team was giving an update on a deal and said The prospect is AFK. Excuse me I asked. Shes AFK he repeated. Ok what does that mean I said. Away from keyboard. . Im be sure to keep you guys up to date on the latest Gen Z terminology"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-11T01:05Z 6377 followers, 24.2K engagements

"Nobody starts out planning to build a Ponzi scheme. They taste some success and get addicted to how it feels. Then the inevitable challenges show up and they dont want to lose momentum. Their identity becomes tied up in always winning. So when they dont win they start bending the rules to hide it. It starts small. But it grows. Each time they bend the rules the hole gets deeper. Eventually the whole business becomes a scam. Because once you start committing fraud theres no way to unwind it. Next thing they know theyre in cuffs and on the news. Key takeaway: Never let yourself go there. Not"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-04T23:32Z 6386 followers, 2358 engagements

"@Dickie_Esquire I don't see anything about an injunction when I look for it"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-15T01:51Z 6412 followers, 5816 engagements

"@BlackLabelAdvsr Let me know your findings"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-15T12:48Z 6412 followers, 5035 engagements

"The word continues to spread and I love to see it. Housing prices in the U.S. are downright silly. The median home price is around $425K and median household income is around $80K. Thats a 5.3x price to income ratio. The highest its ever been. The median household is paying HALF its income to own a home at the median price. And its even worse in high property tax states. There are plenty of homeowners that believe the unsustainable appreciation of the past will return. And so theyll rent you their house at prices thatll shock you if you calculate what it costs to own the home. Dont buy into"
X Link @bavedikian 2025-10-05T00:39Z 6376 followers, 2409 engagements