Commercial Real Estate Pro Network

J Darrin Gross

I'd like to ask you, Joel Friedland, what is the BIGGEST RISK?

Joel Friedland  

I'm afraid I can't give you just one. Because there are actually multiple risks. I've been doing this for 40 years, and I can tell you exactly what I struggle with with risk. Number one risk debt. If you have debt and anything goes wrong, you are screwed. So that's why we do our deals, debt free, no mortgage, that's number one. Number two in industrial, vacancy.  When a building's vacant, and it's a single tenant building on a net lease when the tenant leaves. It's either 100% vacant or it's 100%. Leased. So vacancy vacancy vacancy, it's it hurts us so badly. We need to keep our buildings occupied. The third one is your area, which is risks that have to do with losses, trucks hitting the sidewall of a building, which happened to us two weeks ago. Flooding roofs that a tree falls on, you know, those insurable risks. Those are really big for us. So Basically, it's almost as if we are a homeowner. And we have all the same issues as a homeowner, except we have a tenant that pays rent instead of us occupying the house. And that's the fourth risk if you do a deal with a tenant with bad credit collections.