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December 19, 2012

Should you really still be in a #CRE career if you do these?

You should probably change careers out of CRE if you still do the following:

  • Calculate total RSF by multiplying a number of people in the office by 250.
  • Think that a 15% vacancy rate makes sense.
  • Believe ANY headcount or growth forecast provided by a client.
  • Don’t think that seat sharing is a real thing.
  • Use a 35 to 40% circulation area.
  • Have no idea how to run a commutation analysis.
  • Think that saving $1 per foot on a lease cost actually matters.
  • Don’t know where labor populations by occupation are for your community.
  • Think that a new office is always the answer.
  • Think that it’s impossible to hit a 100 foot per person target in an office.

But then, I bet we all know some people who still think Microsoft Excel is cutting edge financial modeling.

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