YEA - I’M BACK

This web-site was down for awhile during the changeover in management - but now is back - great.

 A lot has happened in the past month.  I took my 96 yr young Dad to Chicago for a good old fashioned Irish Wake.  His sister - my dear departed Aunt Eileen - is now resting peacefully back in Chicago and best of all NOW SHE CAN VOTE AGAIN!!

I took a CCIM 101 test yesterday and it was brutal.  For the past 90 days that text book has been at my side, on airplanes, in bed, in the tub, on the golf course.  Was it worth it? - not.  IF I had a team that was selling commercial/industrial real estate, I would insist that someone on that team have the CCIM designation, but it would not be me.

Last Friday I spoke to a group of international entrepreneurs from Europe and Asia.  It is hard to tell the truth about how difficult the life of an entrepreneur is.  Consider the Federal Government designates a “small” business as under 500 employees.  How many people out there employ 500 people?  Most entrepreneurs can barely employ themselves.  The tenacity and never give up personality that is critical to being an entrepreneur excludes most.  Having a better product is not a guarantee.  You have to have a better system, then fit the product to that successful system.

The definition of an entrepreneur is someone that creates employment.  One person shows are simply self-employed.  Not until you make payroll can you call yourself an entrepreneur and the hours and dollars and knowledge are beyond what most people can imagine. 

 Lots going on in the industrial areas of Seattle - especially along the Duwamish.  Look for my 2020 report to be finalized in the next week, and we have a great Vision map of the Duwamish area courtesy of the Duwamish Coalition led my BJ Cummins.