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Proper commercial financing can greatly enhance a commercial location, while poor financing can squander an otherwise excellent location. Many commercial projects in good locations have been ruined by poor financing, and it is not at all uncommon to find commercial projects in marginal locations that have been successful because of strong financing.

When looking at the physical property itself, commercial lenders usually analyze:

  – The size of the facility
  – The parking situation
  – Drive-by appeal
  – On-site amenities
  – Physical and mechanical components of the building
  – Functional and economic utility
  – Physically and economically obsolete aspects

In assessing most of these elements, common sense may be the most important tool. To illustrate this point, consider an apartment with no bathroom or a “full-service” hotel without adequate parking. Commercial lenders must be able to judge the project for its current and future market appeal, and function plays a large role.

Lorenzo Hills, managing director of East Coast Commercial Finance, is responsible for the origination, analysis and placement of real estate debt and equity investments nationwide. Lorenzo is located in Charlotte, N.C., and can be reached at 980-226-6746.

Even the smallest business can benefit from a stock control system that uses barcode scanner technology. This is especially the case when the business must deal with items it has to keep in stock, or physical items that are being sold over the counter.

The barcode language is actually quite simple. All barcodes contain specific symbols which equal a series of bars. These bars can be different lengths and have different spacing between them. Every part of the series denotes a number of characters, depending upon the data originally entered into the barcode software. In other words, barcode software is the beginning point for all barcodes and barcode scanning systems. It is what makes the system work.

Programmers are able to use barcode software to inventory their products by inputting the product’s name and assigning it a barcode generated by the computer. This is all accomplished by using a sophisticated database system, where data from each product is stored.

This makes keeping track of the inventory easy and it also helps to speed up the updating of pricing. New information about products is entered into the database. Then whenever the barcode scanner reads a barcode that identifies a specific product it is connected directly to the database where it finds the most current information about the product.

By Patrick McNamee,
Realtor, Century 21 Rainbow Realty
Laguna Woods Village, California

We have both types of homes in Laguna Woods Village, but very interestingly, they are many times the same floor plan!  So you can buy a “Casa Linda” home as either a “Condo” or a “Co-op” but what are the differences in ownership?

Good Question!  In Laguna Woods Village, a Co-op is not any easier or harder to sell than a Condo, it appriciates – or in this current market – depriciates – at the same rate as a Condo.  You get the same benefits tax wise from ownership of either a Condo or a Co-op (i.e. – you can write off your mortgage interest and property taxes).  The only difference is in Laguna Woods Village is the fact that you can only rent out a Co-op for 6 months out of the year, and you can rent a Condo year around.  So if you are an investor, you would want to buy a Condo so you could rent it out.  If this was going to be your primary residence, then purchasing a Condo or a Co-op would not be as big an issue. Please see my web site: www.leisureworldre.com to find out more information about our California Senior Community and the homes for sale here.

What exactly is a Co-op?  The full term is ”Stock Cooperative” and they are a lot more popular back east where they have the brown stone buildings, in New York as an example.

The problem came up in the early to mid 19th century, how can we sell the units in a building? The question comes up, well who owns the land underneth the building? So what they did, was come up with an idea where the Corporation buys the building and then each apartment in the building gets stock in the Corporation based on his/ her ownership share.  To make it simple, see the diagram above, if you have 4 apartments in the building, each apartment/ home would get 25% stock in the Corporation (4 x 25% = 100%)

What you actually get when you purchase a Co-op is a Stock Certificate instead of a Deed of Trust.  Rest assured, it is just as valuable as a Deed of Trust and you can even get a loan on them – or do a reverse mortgage!  Just like a Deed of Trust – getting financing is no problem!

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