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    Fishing Season -- and Other Real Estate Interview Questions
    Alice Devine
    • Mar 4, 2021
    • 4 min

    Fishing Season -- and Other Real Estate Interview Questions

    How do interviewers discern employee qualities? Mike "Stone Face" Koll was a legendary figure at the University of California, Berkeley...
    Negotiating 101: Know Your Amortized Capital Investment
    Alice Devine
    • Aug 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    Negotiating 101: Know Your Amortized Capital Investment

    (as reprinted from my interview with the Commercial Lease Law Insider, July 2019...an excellent publication and resource for...
    A Sweet Award for Suite Deal
    Alice Devine
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Sweet Award for Suite Deal

    A sweet Robert Bruss Book Award for Suite Deal from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
    A Real Estate Broker is a Broker is a Broker...Not!
    Alice Devine
    • Apr 24, 2019
    • 1 min

    A Real Estate Broker is a Broker is a Broker...Not!

    Loyola Marymount University, UC Berkeley, Claremont McKenna College Real estate professionals speak a strange language of acronym, word...
    "Yes, And.." -- How Improvisation Techniques Can Help Your Real Estate Career...
    Alice Devine
    • Oct 23, 2018
    • 2 min

    "Yes, And.." -- How Improvisation Techniques Can Help Your Real Estate Career...

    Stomping and laughter bursts from the second floor. There, the nation’s oldest collegiate improvisation troupe — My Mother's Fleabag, at...
    Who Says Latin Is Dead? Certainly Not The Lease Document...
    Alice Devine
    • Jul 25, 2018
    • 2 min

    Who Says Latin Is Dead? Certainly Not The Lease Document...

    Remember crusty Mr. Murphy who taught Classics? He told us the subject was relevant to our lives. Pick up any lease document, and we...
    Shawn Mendes & Real Estate: Catching a Cue From Performers on How to Improve Real Estate Tours
    Alice Devine
    • Jul 22, 2018
    • 2 min

    Shawn Mendes & Real Estate: Catching a Cue From Performers on How to Improve Real Estate Tours

    Wait…what? What could pop singer Shawn Mendes and the real estate industry possibly have in common? Last week, I watched Mendes in...