From Management to Sale: How Long-Term Stewardship Creates Better Outcomes
Property management and real estate sales are often treated as separate services. In reality, the two often intersect; with the strongest sale outcomes being the result of years of thoughtful management, consistent care, and informed decision-making. When those pieces work together, the process becomes more efficient, and lucrative for owners, tenants, and buyers alike. We participated in one of the clearest examples of synergy in a long-term client relationship that spanned more than a decade and ended in a highly successful sale. A Home That Worked for Everyone We first began managing this single-family home in Belmont, California over 12 […]
Monks, Mountains, and a Palantir Billionaire
If you thought 2025 was weird before breakfast, wait till you hear this: **Alex Karp, the philosopher-CEO of Palantir, fighter of inscrutable data, and undefeated champion of cross-country skiing vigils, just bought a former Trappist monastery outside Aspen for $120 million. Yes. A real, honest-to-goodness monastery, the kind once home to brothers committed to silence, prayer, and probably the best alpaca-farming meditation you’ve ever imagined. This 3,700 acre slice of snowy paradise in Snowmass, Colorado (about 30 minutes from Aspen) was home to Trappist monks for nearly 70 years before Karp scooped it up in what’s now the most expensive […]
From Rich Dad to Doom Dad: The Fall of Robert Kiyosaki’s Credibility
"Robert, it's time to step away from the scare tactics and return to the principles that once made you a trusted voice—or risk being remembered as just another doomsday peddler." – Jason Born
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