I would encourage commercial landlords to take a good hard look at a prospective tenant's capitalization and business plan before taking on the risk of leasing space.Third, the costs of doing business in the cannabis industry are crazy.

We have raised this matter for the courts and believe that the matter will be resolved judiciously.”When Errol Samuelson, former president of realtor.com and Chief Strategy Officer at Move, Inc. left to become Zillow’s Chief Industry Development Officer, reactions ranged from criticism of Move, calling it a poaching of talent, to a criticism of Samuelson, calling it a betrayal to the industry as NAR members own and have an operating agreement with Move (which competes with Zillow).

Hello BP Community,My name is Lucas Bennett, I am 28 years old, and I would like to connect with all of you.I have been reading the forum posts pretty religiously for the last 6 months or so, and I finally decided to make a legitimate profile and introduce myself.I am a big believer in learning by doing, and have worked on a couple real estate deals so far that have already taught me (sometimes the hard way) more about this industry than I thought I would ever know.

This leads me to my question...Why are so many folks in the REI industry selling books and e-books?

Low risk because demand is constantly high due to strong factors like weather versus say dependance on one industry that could pack up and leave town suddenly.

Mainly, I wanted to focus on generating prospects for new development listings.Yes, I'm working with my colleagues as well to better understand this area of the industry, but I just wanted to reach out and see what others abroad were doing as well.As for location, I live in NY and focus mainly in Suffolk/Nassua/Queens (pretty much up to, but not including, Manhattan).

I've got experience in the securities industry though as well as real estate and have seen several related questions and topics on this website that I could address.

(my "hobbies" have varied from cars, computers, home audio, car audio, electronics, computer programming, photography, motorcycles, hiking, bicycling, running, on and on the list goes) I'd say I never mastered any of them and I still find most interesting, I just don't do them anymore for various reasons.I have stuck with the same area of work for 10 years now, but now I am truly bored with it.

What areas of real estate investing are you interested in, the real estate industry provides a ton of options?

I am interested in consulting companies with acquisition, merger, and initial public offering in the real estate industry primarily, but, I can also consult in the area of property acquisition.