“HOPE AND HOW TO MESS WITH A GOOD COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS”: “A Tutorial on Commercial Real Estate over Forty-Eight Years and Counting”

After 45 years as an Investor, Developer, Buyer’s Broker, and Seller’s Broker of Residential and Commercial real estate, I had the opportunity to sell the Marker IV Marina in Venice Florida at the bridge of Business US 41 and the Intracoastal Waterway. I loved this transaction. Mike was easy to work with after it was foreclosed with a major effort by Steve Witzer from a ‘Deadbeat’ owner. After the contract with Mike, Steve was killed in an auto accident in his Maserati going south in the right lane, out of Shelly’s, (Michelle, Steve’s wife) Gift Shop just south of Demetrio’s Pizza. Steve was moving through the right-hand lane at the light at Field Road and trying to avoid an 81-year-old man, who turned in front of Steve. but the view was blocked by a truck, Steve hit his car then the curb, and cartwheeled into the parking lot of a furniture store, DOA. Neither was at fault and the older man was released from Sarasota Memorial Hospital, unhurt. Go figure.