Less is Morehttp://www.pointlineinc.com/less-is-more/en-US2008-12-03T08:53:09ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Subleases from a Sub-Tenant's Perspectivehttp://www.pointlineinc.com/less-is-more/2008/6/25/subleases-from-a-sub-tenants-perspective.htmlWalt Batansky2008-06-25T01:40:54ZAlmost every market search includes a sublease option or two, perhaps more.  If you are looking for space, should you bite?  They may not be worth the trouble.  Read on.]]>What's Good About a Bad Economy?http://www.pointlineinc.com/less-is-more/2008/5/7/whats-good-about-a-bad-economy.htmlWalt Batansky2008-05-07T01:20:40ZRecession, recession, recession!  There, I said it.  We're in one.  Don't let the government or the landlord reps mislead you.

It doesn't effect all business directly, and is certainly selective in its targeting of particular industries.  Anyone with interests related to residential real estate is getting hammered, and the trickle-down effect is reaching out to financial markets, retailers, and distributors.  The government is trying to bolster home prices and lessen the effects of oil inflation, and the jury is still out on the long term forecast. 

Here's what I like about it:]]>Creative Destructionhttp://www.pointlineinc.com/less-is-more/2007/12/30/creative-destruction.htmlWalt Batansky2007-12-30T20:16:40ZThe Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan compares capitalism to collectivism by remembering a drive that he had in the Moscow countryside in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.  There he saw a 1920's steam tractor, which might have been in a museum in the U.S., clanking and belching through a field under a local farmer.  "Why do you suppose they still use that?, Greenspan asked his security man.  "Because it still works?", the man replied.

It is easy to fall into a "real estate rut" just like that farmer.  Are you using your facility the same way a businessperson might have used a similar property in the 1920's?  Perhaps it is time to scrap your steam-engine equivalent and gain some efficiency.]]>