Southern New Jersey Overlook

Welcome to the ActiveRain Commercial Real Estate Group!

The intended purpose of this group is to provide a forum to share information and resources that are of specific interest to those of us involved with commercial real estate brokerage.  It is also a way for us to network and build relationships, share experiences, exchange ideas and to develop referral sources.

Please feel free to contribute and to make any comments and suggestions about the direction this group should take and the topics for discussion.

POSTING CRITERIA FOR GROUP


While most of the posting criteria for this group is based on general ActiveRain guidelines, there are a few specific to this group (although most groups have similar ones):

1. No spamming... this includes personal advertisements, etc. 

If you want people to get to know you, we have provided almost unlimited means for you to do so...

First, submit your information to the Real Estate or Lender Directory that should always be at the top of the Commercial group posts.  David Abernathy does a great job of maintaining them and quickly adding submissions to the list.

Second, start posting comments to group posts that are of interest to you and where you can contribute your expertise for the benefit of the rest of us.

Third, submit your own posts to the group, sharing your knowledge, incite, experience and ideas that will benefit the rest of us.


2. Stay on focus.

Just because you write a great post for which everyone may be interested, does not mean it should also be included in this group. 

For those that have the tendency or urge to do this, allow me to make a suggestion...
It will probably be better to post the majority of your posts in the [*** make appropriate substitution here ***] group which are more generic with respect to readers and not this group, unless you want to specifically apply it to this group as a tutorial.

If you are discussing a fairly involved topic, unless it is a practical application that the majority can quickly grasp, it is my suggestion to post to "[** substitute appropriate group here ***]" and similar areas, then submit "practical application" and/or "tutorial" posts to groups like this (incorporating links to the more detailed posts as references) with specific examples oriented to this group.

I believe you will have more readership for those situations.  (And extra AR points for the posts :-)

Otherwise, most people will see it as "noise" within the group and I am being "encouraged" to filter out as much "noise" as possible that does not deal specifically and directly focus on the objectives of this group.


3. Avoid ALL CAPS in titles.

While you think you are getting more attention that way, it actually does the reverse as most people view ALL CAPS in titles as either flaming, inexperienced poster, spam, immaturity or a combination of them.  ALL CAPS in the heading, while it may make you stand out, are actually harder to read and most people tend to ignore associating with advertising.   In order to avoid the "spamming" look of other blogs, we will remove automatically (do not have the time to notify poster) any entries that are ALL CAPS in the title.  (If that happens to your entry, all you have to do is correct the title using upper/lower case and then resubmit.)


4. Properties for Sale.

Most of us want others to know about our properties and we need a venue for other members to quickly find out about available properties.

However, we already have a great facility via Localism.com whereby we can posts listings by location.  Posting listings to the Commercial Real Estate group can result in the group posts looking like spam and often interest to none but a very few members for each occurance. 

For those that want to be able to have a place for posting and identifying commercial listings, here's a new group created just for that purpose:
Commercial Sales or Leasing - Property and/or Business


Let me know your thoughts and suggestions on how to continue to improve the group.