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Today we go live with our brand new product, CMBS Pro, a web-based commercial real estate deal management system that is combined with CMBS data. We took the same enterprise software we sell to large banks, configured it to focus only on the core elements of a deal, combined CMBS data and priced it to attract individual users. The result is a clean, easy to use application that replaces your spreadsheets and other valuation tools and we hope will become an essential part of your CRE business process.

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Every year on September 11, I join most people in the nation and reflect on the terror attacks of that day. I was in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2011 — and I witnessed the destruction firsthand. I was blessed that the meeting I had scheduled for 8:30 a.m. in Tower One at the Windows on the World restaurant, where no one survived, was changed to a 10:30 a.m. meeting in Suite 2243. Of course, that meeting never happened.

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I never realized winning a World Series was so exciting and exhausting. I came close to living in cities where the home team won the Fall Classic (San Francisco 2002, Boston 1986) but this was the first time my home team actually got it done.

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Fighter jets and race cars — what could be better?

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I’m talking about the Backshop .NET 3.5 release, Regulation AB, two years of blogging, The A Yacht and summer family trips.

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