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Top Budget Hacks for Planning and Accounting

Something most rags-to riches stories have in common is that a good budget is always needed to help anyone achieve financial security. If you want to significantly improve your credit, you have to learn how to pace your spending and increase your savings. No matter how much money you have, there will always be something […]

Tips for Avoiding an Out of Money Experience

Do you run out of money before you run out of month? Many do, but it doesn’t have to be that way! Wealth is the result of widening the gap between what you earn and what you spend. Most of us make the mistake of ramping up our spending as our disposable incomes rise. This […]

Trap Door gets closer to Opening

 Bryan Schull has been hard at work up at 2315 Main Street the past few months.  We featured Bryan as one of our signed leases this past spring.  Bryan founder of Trap Door Brewing, had a vision to add another great local brewery to Clark  County’s growing inventory. Feeling that Main Street was the ideal location , he […]

SunModo eyes room to grow at proposed new headquarters

We are honored to be a part of the SunModo’s team in selecting this site. (The Columbian – July 20, 2015: http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jul/20/sunmodo-proposed-new-headquarters-vancouver) Having outgrown its current space, SunModo, the Vancouver-based producer of mounting hardware for solar systems, is seeking to relocate its headquarters to a place with room for additional expansion. To that end, the […]

BUILDING TRANSITIONS FROM GOLDEN FAMILY TO WYATT FAMILY

We had the honor of representing the Golden family in this sale.  The Golden’s have been long time members of the Vancouver community and this building was the American  Music company when his George Golden’s  father owned the building in the fifties and sixties.   George Golden, very active here in Clark County with Veteran’s issues and […]

New Craft Brewery Coming to Uptown Village

Here is a recent article published in the Vancouver Business Journal about a client of ours, Bryan Shull who is opening Trap Door Brewing this summer. Bryan has laid a solid  foundation for his business by creating a  detailed    business plan and using the resources of Buck Heidrick of the Washington State Small Business Development Center.  This helped him […]

Still the one ! 192nd corridor still attracting high quality tenants

Friday I drove out to 192nd and Mill Plain to do a walk through with the contracting company that designed and built the Sharma building at 500 E 192nd Ave.  Bett Kaber, Project Manager for RSV Building Solutions  and her team walked me through the 8400 sq. ft. building that currently has three committed tenants.  […]

Congrats to Puj!

Congratulations to one of my clients, Puj, for taking this next step in their business! Puj Kickstarts 2015 with New Product, New Hires Article published in the Vancouver Business Journal Friday, 06 February 2015 – Written by Temple Lentz Since the summer of 2013, Vancouver-based design company Puj has occupied downtown’s Wolf building on 11th […]

Glambar to provide sparkle at Sparks

The GlamBar Babes are creating sparkle in downtown Vancouver already.  Click on the image to hear from them directly as they get ready for their grand opening. We’re proud to have helped them through the steps to getting a signed lease and be able to announce their new venture. Downtown Vancouver already has built a […]

Awash in Optimism

We’ve entered the economic forecast zone as 2015 gets into full swing.  Everything that I read seems to radiate optimism.  As 2014 drew to a close we had gas prices falling to their lowest level since 2009.   We had consumer confidence rising, in fact reaching levels unseen since 1998.    Wonder if those two […]