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@AdamHKlein Thought my car screen was dirty when I saw it

Worst icon update of 2026?

@molzer How’s the golf game?

$48,000,000 in redevelopment projects wrapping up over the next 8 weeks $25,000,000 of ground up multifamily breaking ground in the next 10 months & $20,000,000 of redevelopment breaking “ground” in next 12 months with another $100M + to follow if stars align & no coffee

@TrailerParkGuy In my experience 99% of attorneys I deal with are not deal killers. I’ve come across maybe 5 attorneys that I thought were killing a deal. However not even on those deals died. The few deals I’ve had die were the biz folks killing them for reasons 3,4 & 5

Attorney's are deal killers. "Oh, but when an attorney kills a deal, more often than not, it was in the best interest of his or her client!" Nope. It's typically: 1. Ego 2. Laziness 3. Emotionally too sensitive 4. Playing the game way too hard 5. Overestimating themselves

@SteelToeScribe @ordonez_adan I respect FL for the protectionist stance since they have a ton already there and ppl would semi retire and move there to work a little (I’d do that). I did get licensed there in case I ever moved back home and I’m also the only attorney licensed in FL at my company which is neat

@ordonez_adan Lack of Enforcement. Lobbying. Deep pockets Good question. Hate how protectionist FL is

This might be a dumb question, but I've never gotten a clear answer (not even from Claude): how are lawyers at big law firms able to practice across multiple jurisdictions even though they're only licensed to practice in one? What is the workaround?

@AvivaRealEstate CHATGPT/AI will replace lawyers for most disliked category and reason a deal has been derailed in the near future (wishful thinking). In all seriousness some tenants can’t explain their changes and refuse to have a conversation on them making it difficult to get a deal signed.

ChatGBT is telling all tenants to request caped expenses at 5% Landlords are not obliging.

@Hue_Chen SWFL is an interesting market and the demographics are really all over the place in such a short drive. You have loads of money in Port Royal then middle class in east Naples. 5th Ave and Mercato then hole in the wall strip centers off 951. Area has been exploding in recent years

In 2011, I got assigned a portfolio of shopping centers in Fort Myers, Florida. Fort Myers was the foreclosure capital of the entire United States. I was based in Miami. No relationships. No market knowledge. No roadmap. Here's what I did. 🧵(1/6)

@Hue_Chen Just subscribed to the channel. Can’t wait to learn and follow along!

So the first year of my YouTube channel is clocking about 1,000 watch hours. That's about 2.7 hours every single day of teaching and disturbing helpful info. That's bringing awareness to retail real estate at scale - exactly what I was hoping for. looking to 10X that.

@Jeffdthompson The bad part it’s making the traffic back home in Naples absolutely terrible. SW Florida is beautiful and I selfishly hate the influx of people to the area but it is good for the economy and it’s most booming down there

Florida’s East Coast has the attention. Miami. Fort Lauderdale. The headlines, the hedge funds, the hype. The West Coast has something better. Fundamentals. Tampa. Sarasota. Naples. Fort Myers. Most investors think beaches and retirees. The operators who are paying attention see something else entirely. Start with Tampa. Industrial asking rents have risen 69% over five years, now sitting at $9.15 per square foot. Small-bay vacancy is at 3.2%, functionally zero. The new construction pipeline is 75% pre-leased before a single building opens. That is not a market with a demand problem. That is a market with a supply problem. And supply problems are good for landlords. Move south toward Sarasota and Southwest Florida and the story gets interesting. Vacancy ticked up to 9.9% in Q4 2025, but here’s the context that matters. It was driven entirely by new supply, not tenant departures. Annual absorption remained positive. Over 2.2 million square feet is currently under construction, developers don’t build speculatively in markets they don’t believe in. The institutional capital story is where it gets interesting. EQT Exeter, a global real estate investment firm operating in 22 countries, has now completed two major acquisitions in Fort Myers within 14 months. In March 2024, they paid $92 million for CenterLinks Business Park, a 454,000 square foot campus just off I-75. Then in May 2025, they came back and paid $87 million for the neighboring Legacy at Oriole Road, a 500,000 square foot, two-building Class A campus developed by Stonemont Financial Group and Geis Development. That second deal included one of the largest single leases ever recorded in Southwest Florida history. CoStar reported at the time that only six leases of similar size have ever been executed in the entire market. When a firm of that calibre buys the same submarket twice in 14 months, they are not making a bet. They are making a statement in their belief in the long term viability of that market. The population story underpins all of it. Florida was the second fastest growing state in the country in 2025. The migration from New York, California and Illinois isn’t slowing. Every new resident is a consumer. Every consumer drives demand for last-mile logistics, distribution, and light industrial. The math is straightforward. We have an asset on Florida’s West Coast and have watched this dynamic play out firsthand. The market is resetting after a period of aggressive growth, but a reset built on genuine population fundamentals is not something to fear. It’s something to position around. The operators who understand the difference between supply-driven vacancy and demand-driven vacancy are the ones who will capitalize on what’s coming. Miami gets the spotlight. The West Coast is getting the returns.

@Wattruthinkin @realEstateTrent Completely agree!

@realEstateTrent A mentor once told me: every legal issue is really a business decision. The attorney’s job isn’t just the law…it’s making sure the client understands the business impact behind it. Good attorneys are advisors and know what’s important!!

The single most annoying thing that happens in real estate: You send the other side a lease form you’ve been using for years. It has been well received countless times by both national and local tenants, and legal comments are usually limited. And then some lawyer decides they need to be a hero. They send it back riddled with hundreds of comments throughout the entire document. They push back on things nobody has ever pushed back on before, and they turn a straightforward deal into a full blown legal negotiation. They put the deal in jeopardy, put their client in an awkward spot, and expect my side to spend thousands of extra dollars on legal fees while the whole process gets delayed by weeks or months. There are plenty of great lawyers out there. But the big shot lawyers are the ones who decide it’s their way or the highway, often have no actual business experience themselves, and completely miss the bigger picture. Sometimes the hardest part of getting a lease signed is not the tenant. It’s the lawyer who decides they need to be the main character. How do you make deals with them? You don’t.

@Jeffdthompson @realEstateTrent Literally just got through a lease with one and nobody involved was happy. Biz folks wanted to kill it and surprisingly it was the lawyers (me and a colleague) that talked them off the ledge and eventually got it done. Not without several more rounds of ridiculous comments tho

@realEstateTrent The worst is when you are doing a deal with a PE owned company that is leasing like 7,000sf unit. The New York attorney’s will frequently treat it like it’s a $100m deal and redline it to death.

@realEstateTrent We use our own forms and it usually goes fairly well. I just today signed a deal my biz folks said to kill b/c Tenants attorney made 803 changes. It took us 6 months to sign the lease and everyone on our end was pulling their hair out but we made it across the finish line

@shawngorham This is beautiful. Does he keep them or sell them when he’s done fixing them up?

Meet my brother, he buys old Lancruisers and fixes them up as a hobby. He in education for a living. Ladies... hes single too but he cant afford to send you flowers every week... but he can take you out driving in really old landcruisers.

@AdamHKlein Very sad. I’d fly in to RSW, FLL, and MIA cheap to visit the family. Prices were already climbing so this is a bummer

Hot take 🚨 Customers (and South Florida) are worse off without Spirit Airlines.

@SMB_Attorney Tbh I’ve never had issues with Spirit. I’ve ran into more problems with American than any other airlines. I absolutely love value airlines like Spirit, Allegiant, and Ryanair. They all get a lot of flack but I’ve flown all over the world on those airlines for very little

Pro tip: If you want to keep your company alive, make sure your customer experience isn’t fucking miserable. I’d rather ride in a stagecoach than board a glorified sauna and sit in a lawn chair next to a hobo for three hours with an 80% chance it doesn’t even get off on time.

@LawyerIssues @AdLawyer Crazy you only get one ?. Try just getting forwarded a thread with 10

Law school didn’t teach me that a partner replying with “?” could ruin my entire nervous system.

@skylarromines Terrible pic but it’s been a tradition to feed the raccoons at my grandpas house for decades. When I was a kid they’d come in the house and sit on the couch with me. Hindsight probably not wise but it all worked out

Lowest aura post categories: 1. Complaining about a bad flight experience. 2. Tagging a brand over a bad experience. 3. Tagging an airline because of a bad flight experience. 4. Saying people are fat because genetics. 5. Calling raccoons 'trash pandas' or sharing any other evidence you're brainwashed by the big anti-raccoon propaganda machine. Do better.

@AvivaRealEstate @rohde88 In-house retail leasing attorney at a large REIT. Fun fact: Harp was my first instrument as a kid in elementary school but drums were my passion growing up.

Real Estate Twitter - introduce yourself and tell me something no one on X would know about you. I’m Aviva. I am a warehouse peddler (meaning I buy, sell, syndicate, lease & manage) Warehouses in Denver, Colorado. I also sell Commercial Real Estate in Aspen Colorado. Something you didn’t know about me… I love Jamaican reggae music and listen to it endlessly. Artists like @ChronixxMusic, @Protoje are my go tos. Your turn :)

@LeasingSoCalCRE @realEstateTrent Tbh I’ve notice a big uptick in this over the last several months. I don’t know if it’s something in the water but I’ve gotten some strange comments and OC is hell bent on not letting them go.

@realEstateTrent Lately in the leasing world it’s a mix of overzealous attorney’s wearing the leverage of we never do this as “XYZ” national Tenant’s counsel - lots of Landlords are getting tired of it & deals are dying because of Ego from both sides involved

What kills more real estate deals than anything else?

@SAOliver_Atty Only dumbbell bench now as I feel a better squeeze and my shoulders don’t hurt. I can bench my 21 month old child several times

For real though.... How much does everyone bench?

@Jeffdthompson 2 but really depends on the actual piece you’re gonna have

Ok need opinion from someone with actual design prowess… Option 1, 2, or 3. 1. Leave all mouldings 2. Leave only outer mouldings 3. Remove all mouldings I’m leaning towards 2