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	<description>.......adventures in commercial real estate financing</description>
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		<title>The Amazing Shrinking Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I think we finally have climbed out of the hole, we seem to be falling right back in.  Clearly we are heading for more turmoil and uncertainty. With Washington dysfunctional, lenders are getting more and more conservative and that does not bode well for the commercial real estate industry as whole.  I don't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shades of 1998 &#8211;  CMBS Hits a Giant Bump in the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember it like yesterday. It was early summer, 1998. I was having a staff luncheon meeting at Junior's deli in west Los Angeles.  Clay Wright, our loan rep from First Union Capital Markets, was there to discuss his programs.  I had ordered a Rubin sandwich. (Those were the days when I could eat a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Worst Client Ever!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following a true story about a client that I really worked hard for that ultimately behaved in a way that frankly shocked me.   When you are in this business for over twenty five years, you would think that you can easily pick the winners and stay away from the losers.  Well, on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Optimism! or why it has taken me so long to write this!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a letter to my deal old uncle Charlie! Hi Uncle Charlie, I know your busy and have really important things on your mind, like how you are going to pay the mortgage or where will you find a tenant to fill your half empty building.  But,  I know that every now and then you wonder....  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaming the System</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of us are angry, very angry.  Bailouts, handouts, everyone feeding at the trough except us.  Car companies, big banks, investment bankers, everyone got taken care of except me; or so it seems. Drinking at the trough of the government is nothing new. It is the extent of the handouts in this go around that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Subjects of Onions and Honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Onions are a very interesting vegetable.  An onion can generate a mild odor or fill up the room with its smell.   Onions can taste sweet, pungent or downright nasty. Onions make many dishes sing with flavor. ( Sounds downright lyrical doesn't it.)  Onions can make your eyes water more than watching Bambi's mother get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid Year Review</title>
		<link>http://www.bscci.info/capitalnews/?p=134</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am frequently asked at the golf club if things are getting better in our business.  The mere question sends my golf ball flying to the right in a gigantic slicing arch.  Of course that is an excuse, virtually anything can cause me to slice or yes, even sha..k the ball.  You golfers know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Past, Present and Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE COLLAPSE:  WE REMEMBER ALL TOO WELL I first felt the tremors  in the CREF (commercial real estate finance) world in about April of 2007.  We were just starting to hear about sub-prime residential problems and my friends at the investment banks were suddenly not stupidly aggressive. By June of 2007 we  stopped originating loans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bridge to Somewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THIS ISSUE OF THE CREF BLOG Three Years And Counting........It is hard to believe that it has been three years since the money machine started leaking oil.  In April of 2007, we began downsizing the company and rethinking our core business. Many questions presented themselves at that time.  How deep a problem would we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing the CRE Recovery from the Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following comment was made by the Comptroller of the Treasury. If his thoughts are put into action, it will drive even more capital out of the market. Dugan Argues for New CRE Limits Acknowledging that regulatory guidance to limit banks' concentration in commercial real estate has failed, Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan says [...]]]></description>
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