Posted on January 31st, 2012 by
John ReederIt’s been a while since I wrote a post, or really did anything in any of the CRE online communities. This was not because I decided to never write again, or interact on Twitter. I have two very good reasons for going off the map. Ok, I have one very good reason, and another that we’ll just call “a reason”.
First, just “a reason”. It was football season. I typically write in the morning, before my day has fully started. It’s a good way to just think about what I’m doing, for thinking’s sake. But during football season I have my fantasy football team to manage and blogging can take a back seat to vanquishing your lifelong friends at a made up game (there was very little vanquishing done this year by me). Football season is just about wrapping up now, so I figured I should get back in the habit of writing again.
Finally, there was a good reason that I wasn’t writing at the end of last year. I typically write about what I’m thinking about and at the end of last year I was thinking a lot about whether our company was going to leave Sperry Van Ness. I didn’t want to write about this for a lot of reasons, and out of respect to a lot of people. We were having internal discussions about possibly leaving. I didn’t want to put any of my thoughts on the topic out there because I thought it would be disrespectful to the people at Sperry Van Ness.
We did decide to leave Sperry Van Ness for reasons that just made sense for our company. Sperry Van Ness is a great company and they provide a lot of value to all of their advisors, but in this case it was just an instance of putting everything on the scales and seeing which side weighed more. It was probably a decision that is unique to our company. I can honestly say that if we were any of the other over 100 SVN offices, we would probably still be with SVN. But our company is a little different because we’re in the land brokerage business, and we did decide that we needed to make a change.
In any case, I’m planning on being a little more active going forward. By leaving Sperry Van Ness and rebranding our company as Mimi Song Company, we’re launching www.mimisongcompany.com which will be fully up and running in the next few days, and where some of my writing will appear in the future.
So, what did I miss?
