Tiling or painting an L-shaped room is easy enough until you try it. It tricks your brain into thinking you can treat it like any … Read More

On nearly all real-estate listings, there’s one number that seems to stand out above all others: square footage. Yet it’s also the least standardized measurement … Read More

You input your room measurements, and the calculator does all the math for you (no more brain power wasted on what should of a fun … Read More

How much square footage does a room have? Most folks will measure it and end there. Walk into a room, imagine where the desk go, … Read More

The agent says that rent is forty dollars a square foot. That sounds like a lot, but you are getting three months of free rent … Read More

Your CAM (common area maintenance) fees always startle you with their size. Why should I be paying so much to maintain that grassy strip between … Read More

Many commercial leases look straightforward at first glance, showing a square footage amount and a base rent. Sounds good to go, right? Nope. Not necessarily. … Read More

Nearly every entrepreneur believe he knows his rent because lease proposal shows one figure in bold typeface. Nearly without fail, that figure is incorrect. First … Read More

After you see the square footage and base rent, you tend to stop reading the lease. The escalation clause is just gibberish legalese, right? It’s … Read More

You get the rent increase notice in the mail: There’s nothing like it, and the anxiety it causes has as much to do with math … Read More