Last weekend, I attended my 50th high school reunion. It was a night filled with laughter, memories, and the occasional moment of “Wait, who are you again?”
Fifty years. That’s a long time.
My high school English composition teacher, Mrs. Beck, would be pleased I’m still using complete sentences, correct punctuation and an occasional pun. But I digress.
As I looked around the room, I couldn’t help but notice how much this gathering had to say about the business I’ve spent my life in: commercial real estate.
A reunion is really a relationship check-in. You see the people with whom you stayed in touch, and you also rediscover connections that simply went dormant.
Some classmates reminded me of things we did decades ago that I had forgotten. It struck me that commercial real estate works