Jeff Rohde Author

Jeff specializes in content creation, editing and proofreading in the real estate, finance and investment, and general business sectors for clients around the globe. My +25 years of extensive experience include actively working in and writing about all aspects of the real estate industry: Residential, multi family, commercial, leasing, renting, selling, group investing, business brokerage and property management. He has also written and published several very popular real estate books under the pen name Jeffrey Roark - The Basic Property Management Guide, Investment Real Estate Analysis: A Case Study, How To Find & Keep Great Tenants, and How To Make Money In Property Management. These can be found through all of the major book distributors. Jeff is a Certified Commercial Investment Member. The CCIM designation is held by only 15,000 commercial and investment real estate professionals worldwide and is the highest professional certification one can earn in commercial investment real estate.

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How to Read a Listing for Office Space

Commercial Real Estate News, Leasing, Office, Resources| Views: 11

Next to preparing annual income taxes, reading and understanding the terms of an office space lease listing can be one of the most complicated things a business will have to do....

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Five Things To Do If You’ve Outgrown Your Office Space

Commercial Real Estate News, Coworking, Design & Architecture, Leasing, Office, Resources| Views: 11

Has your business become too big for your office space? On one hand that’s great news, as it means that everything is going according to plan. The bad news is that a staff...

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11 Ways to Make Your Office Space Unbelievably Epic

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One third of your life will be spent working. That translates to 90,000 hours over your entire lifetime. If you’re going to spend so much time in one place, you may as well...

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Fact, Fiction, and Hacks to Keep Your Office Temperature Under Control

Commercial Real Estate News, Design & Architecture, Office, Resources, Sustainability, Technology| Views: 7

Has your unofficial office uniform suddenly become a snuggie? You know, an oversized body blanket with sleeves (and sometimes feet) that people wear when they’re too cold, even...

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How to Calculate and Use a Cap Rate

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A capitalization rate is one of the most common calculations used in evaluating investment real estate. It’s also one of the most misunderstood and misused metrics in...

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Company Spotlight: Industrious

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Coworking office spaces represent a fundamental shift in the way that people work. Airbnb changed the way we vacation, Uber changed the way we ride, Amazon changed the way we...

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How Do Commercial Real Estate Loans Work?

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Commercial real estate loans are used to develop, purchase, or renovate income-producing property. The property can be owner-occupied, leased to tenants, or a combination of both....

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23 Commercial Real Estate Conferences to Attend This Fall and Winter

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Have you already met your sales quota for the year? If you have – or even if you haven’t – why not combine some work with a little play and attend some of the best national...

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Commercial Property Tax Primer: What You Need to Know

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Commercial real estate property taxes are much different than the taxes on a home. There are more types of commercial property taxes to pay compared to residential property. But...

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7 Important Things to Know About Virtual Offices

Commercial Real Estate News, Coworking, Office, Resources, Virtual office space| Views: 11

Many people – even those of us in the commercial real estate business – sometimes scratch our heads when trying to explain what virtual offices are. Are they an actual place,...

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