A new year is nearly upon us. While it’s natural to wonder about what that new year will bring, there seem to be more questions than answers. Who would have thought 20 years ago the Grand Valley would have four strong hospitals all managing, for the most part, to stay out of each other’s way? […]
Many business and sales professionals subject themselves at the end of the year to an analysis that, when completed honestly, tells them where their strengths and weaknesses lie in relation to their job performance. The analysis affords an opportunity to focus in the coming year on those areas that need the most improvement and, in […]
Where is the Grand Junction and Mesa County commercial real estate market headed in the next year? A lot of celebrated economists predict a slowdown in the commercial market going into the year 2020. Are the best days of investing in commercial markets behind us? Is it time to throw in the towel and sell […]
Let’s say you have a commercial real estate investment worth $5 million you’re selling and want to defer capital gains tax as well as the recapture on your accumulated depreciation due on that sale into a new investment property. Let’s further assume you’ve held the relinquished property for 10 years, depreciated improvements on a 39-year […]
With the recession behind us and slow growth in natural gas development, you’d think the Grand Valley economy would be more stable — although we seem slow to grow jobs and incomes. What developments should we consider that could change the trajectory of slow growth and provide jobs for our children? A few items come […]
Have you seen them? They’re called coworking spaces, and they’re proliferating across the country. What’s a coworking space? It’s typically 3,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet of office space divided into a combination of private offices and conference rooms as well as open work areas and places to just hang out when the work’s […]
Investing in real estate might not be for the faint of heart. But neither is driving Interstate Highway 70. Both actions require a certain amount of planning as well as some mitigation before and during the process. The prevailing wisdom in any type of investing says to buy for the long term and don’t become […]
A lifetime of experience offers a perspective that enables me to see the cause and effect of a human being’s rationalization when making an investment purchase. In other words, I’m old enough to understand why an investor paid too much for a real estate investment when faced with a short time line in a tax-deferred […]
Recent economic updates point to a local economy that’s growing, yet slowing in terms of the number of real estate transactions and consumers’ willingness to spend. What does this mean for the future for our region? Let’s look at some factors that could affect us. First, let’s look at the Grand Junction Regional Airport and […]
The City of Grand Junction plans to conduct a series of meetings to consider a new master plan for the city and Grand Valley. The meetings will allow various stakeholders in the community to weigh in on how they’d like to see the city develop and grow over the next 10 to 20 years. I […]