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Commercial Real Estate Investment Strategies: Do-it-yourself Market Research Pays

One of the strategies commercial real estate investors like to employ is hiring consultants or market research companies to analyze a specific market a commercial real estate investor wants to pursue.

To a beginning investor, the overall strategy seems logical and well-intended. Who better to know a market than the analysts who spend there days and nights collecting, analyzing and reporting on such data?

I?ll tell you: YOU?the commercial real estate investor.

There is no substitute for doing your own research. There is no substitute for keeping your own counsel. There is no substitute for doing your own homework.

Why?

Because it?s YOUR MONEY that will ultimately be spent. It?s YOUR bank account that will ultimately reflect the success or failure of a commercial real estate endeavor.

Too many well meaning beginning real estate investors think they don?t have what it takes to do the homework required on a market. Too many well meaning investors yield their analysis people who supposedly know more about the subject than they do.

This is a costly strategic mistake.

I have nothing against market research people or consultants. I have no axe to grind with them. They are extremely competent, thorough people who provide a valuable service.

My issue is with HOW they are used by the commercial real estate investor.

The challenge is when an investor trusts their judgment--more than his or her own. Many times an investor will be in awe of their command of the information, specifically statistics.

The reason I say this is because I have seen many an real estate investor unwittingly fall victim to this process. It?s very easy to find yourself yielding to a ?professional?s? opinion based upon research which you have paid handsomely for.

Don?t. It is a mistake that will cost you later on.

Look at it this way: Let?s say you want to invest in the stock market and you use the services of a stock broker to recommend a buy.

Do you really believe that the stock broker?s goal is for you to make a wise and carefully thought out purchase? Do you really believe their recommendation has been thoroughly researched and analyzed? Forgetting the self-serving aspects of the commission he makes selling you a stock, would you really want to trust him with your investment portfolio?

My guess is probably not.

So what the proper way to use these market research professional? There three common ways which these professionals are valuable to the commercial real estate investor:

1. One is as a way to flush out new ideas and do homework and research ?heavy lifting? which need done that the investor doesn?t have time to accomplish on his or her own. The investor know exactly the information he is after.

2. The second strategy is as a way to confirm the findings which the investor already believes are accurate. In other words, the investor is looking for a second opinion before he commits more resources to the project.

3. The third strategy is very interesting: Some investor will use professional resources to poke holes in their strategy. To find the fatal flaw. To find ?the fly in the ointment?. The investor will never admit this to the professionals, yet he wants to know all the reasons the deal won?t work.

You?ll notice one thing in common with these three strategies: The investor will always do his own research. It?s a critical aspect of success?one that should never be delegated.

Specializing in commercial and investment real estate, Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop are always searching for new and profitable commercial properties across the U.S. Visit http://www.maverickrei.com for more great information

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