Commercial Real Estate Pro Network

Commercial Real Estate Pro Network

Commercial Real Estate Professionals who work with Investors, Buyers and Sellers of Commercial Real Estate. We discuss today's opportunities, problems & solutions in Commercial Real Estate.

  1. 1d ago

    BIGGEST RISK with Michael Pouliot

    J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Michael Puliot, what is the BIGGEST RISK?    Michael Pouliot The biggest risk, as it relates to property, right, or, you know, property, the property business, so yeah, the first thing I thought of was I think the biggest risk is, you know, really having strong operations, honestly, and then that comes back to your people, your process, and your technology, and so really, you know, property management, managing assets, although, yeah, obviously we raise capital from individuals or institutions to buy these properties day to day. Our life is about managing, you know, property and day to day property, and then also the business plans and what we've promised investors and the business plan that we struck when we closed, and so the, as your, as you continue to grow the business, you need to continue to grow as a business leader, and then so all your people, and so that I think is your biggest risk is getting to a getting growing too fast, potentially, or just allowing the having operational systems that just are not equipped to handle the stage of your company, and so, and I think that can happen very quickly, that those things can fall out of lockstep as you grow, or as you know, you just don't take, you know, you take your eye off the ball sometimes, and so I think it's really important to make sure that you've got people who are focused on on the day, people who are focused on the week, the month, the quarter, the year, and the decade. You don't have to have that many people focused on the decade, but you should have someone, or a couple people, who are just so that we know where we're going, and that way you know the business can can grow in a sustainable way with a good culture. People like working there, and I think that's the biggest risk over time to generating or creating and sustaining a business is having a good culture. People are thriving and they feel fulfilled, they can grow, and if you provide that, then you don't have to do, you don't have to become, you don't have to be the hero, you don't have to always jump in and help with things. In fact, doing that actually hurts, you know, the ability for the for the business to be successful. We were talking about our children before we started here, and it's not unlike a child, it's like you can't always step in and. And tie the shoes, just, you know, it's okay if, if we're five, you know, we'll just be five minutes late, we'll just work on this, and then you'll learn the skill, and now you can tie your shoes, and so I think there's a patience and a willingness and a space to take risk and make mistakes, and all of that is kind of in that culture realm, which I think is, you know, probably I think the biggest risk in property.   https://www.carbonresidential.com/

    3 min
  2. Jun 2

    BIGGEST RISK with Rod Santomassimo

    J Darrin Gross I'd like to ask you, Rod Santomassimo, what is the BIGGEST RISK?   Rod Santomassimo I think, the by far the biggest risk today is what we talked about. It's AI. AI is the biggest risk, and there's different risks. You mentioned the three forms of risk, right? So that the risk from an AI, from a business perspective, there's the adaptability risk. You know, if I do not adapt to the AI, what's the true risk to my business? Well, it could be said some, some sectors are AI proof, right? My, my, the girl who cuts my hair, right? Maybe she needs an AI reception bot to make sure that I could be there on time, right, and their schedule is clear, so she's not really AI proof, she's not. But there's that adaptability risk. How adaptable is your service, your product to AI? And if you don't do anything about it, you know what's the impact, the risk of your business bottom line. There's certainly the implementation risk, right? So that will now implement. If I implement the risk, what's the cost going to be? What's the timing going to be? I'm working on something right now. I wrote the developers and said, did you realize I announced this in November 2024 So now we're 18 months and you still haven't delivered. I would never have thought that when I announced it in November of something we're working on with AI, right? So that risk implementation risk really matters. If you think you can go and develop an AI platform overnight, I don't care if you're using lovable or Claude code, it's not - it's not a truly scalable platform, right. And the third, without doubt, is compliance risk, and that comes in several forms. First, there's there's those that use AI chat bots, and it outputs something that's total crap - they call it chat crap, and you post it right, or you share it with the client as fact, right? So, so now you look like an idiot, they're just what it is, right? There's also a compliance risk, and us dealing with the FCC, and, and seeing all the hurdles you have to take to truly leverage AI as tech spots and call bots, you do not want to be on the wrong side of compliance list risk, that's going to cost you dearly, right, especially if you're doing international work, like where the rules and regulations in Canada compared to the US are vastly different. They are, in fact, we pulled our AI bots off for a while in Canada and have recently put them back on because we're in compliance, something called CAN spam that can cost you millions. So that's what I mean by risks. You look at those risks, the adaptability, implementation, compliance - those are risks I'm thinking about every single day, and how we handle those risks from a business building standpoint.   https://massimo-group.com/

    3 min
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