Real Estate Adventures
“The bordello’s guard”
A story that shows us how crisis
can become an opportunity…
(part 2, to read part 1, please press here) More assignments… - “Aren’t you the expert with tools?” someone asked him after 2 days. - “Am I?” - “I think you are, my friend told me that you brought him the best hummer and you also didn’t try to steal him, overcharging your expenses”. - “I never overcharge, why... »
“The bordello’s guard”
A story that shows us how crisis
can become an opportunity…
(part 1) I do have many friends of my age, or younger ones. But I am also proud of having many friends much older than me. Their wisdom and experience about life and business was always an important guide for me. A very bad personal period… It was the summer of 2000. I had just exited... »
7 small news about Retail Real Estate market
(that you probably didn’t know)
Today is my birthday. I become 35 and I enter in the second part of the 4th decade of my life. I was thinking to write today about 35 lessons I learned in Romania throughout the 6,5 years I am here, but I decided not to. Instead, let me share with you 7 small... »
“We don’t negotiate too much with the clients.
If you teach them like this, you will spoil them”
Part 5 of the post “Do you like “role games”? Let us play the… residential developer To read part 1, please press here To read part 2, please press here To read part 3, please press here To read part 4, please press here Mr X is a serious successful medium size developer in his country. After having heard so... »
An “almost millionaire”
and an upset collaborator…
(part 1) (published on 02.09.2009) Was it because we had one more transaction on Monday (the seventh one this summer)? Or because the client of this transaction was very happy, spreading around very good words about how myself and my team of collaborators organized the deal and protected him? Who knows? Maybe because it was the... »
“I am strong, look at my muscles,
I should be paid double than the old man”
part 3 of the post “7 apartments, a villa in Pantelimon and a gypsy… bodybuilder” to read part 1, please press here to read part 2, please press here A villa in Pantelimon for an ugly two rooms apartment in the center I decided to send another colleague of mine, as the first one... »
A loudly… quiet procedure
Part 2 of the post “7 apartments, a villa in Pantelimon and a gypsy… bodybuilder” to read part 1, please press here Identification of procedure… I sat down on my chair. Three of my colleagues joined our meeting in the conference room. We started by identifying the procedure. My first colleague began to explain, after having... »
7 apartments, a villa in Pantelimon
and a gypsy… bodybuilder
(part 1) “Let us invest in the center of Bucharest” The taxi driver left me exactly at the right place. I stepped down and walked in the building’s garden. Before to enter inside, I raised my head and admired the quality of construction, even if I was looking at the back of the buildings. 5... »
“I count only up to 20”
“Then how will you count 280.000 euro?”
(part 3, for part 1 please press here, for part 2 please press here) Beware of the Greeks… Finally she found the solution. She invited a cousin of hers, “who went to the lyceum for 2 years” to come over and help. Thank God, this guy knew how to use a calculator. At 15.20 we... »
“I count only up to 20”
“Then how will you count 280.000 euro?”
Articles published on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 (part 2, for part 1 please press here, to read part 3 please press here) “What is this? A bank note of 5 millions? These are Satan’s things” The Romanian law is clear. A transaction can be legally concluded only if you pay using the local currency... »
