Journal 8
Mullets
(Trigger warning: I get into some more historical tax stuff here, but I’ll try to keep this post short so that maybe it won’t be too traumatic.) I mentioned in ...
Journal 7
On Labor Day, September 2, 1974, President Gerald Ford, in one of his first official acts after having succeeded Richard Nixon upon the latter’s resignation ...
Journal 6
A couple of years after I rocked up at Baker & Botts as a newly minted associate in August 1976, I found myself working on my first Hines deal. It started ...
Journal 5
I doubt that Cormac McCarthy had real estate development in mind when he wrote that line from All the Pretty Horses, but it could not be more on point as ...
Journal 4
In prior posts, I’ve mentioned the almost three years I spent in the early 2010s working for one of the world’s premier institutional investors, a giant Middle ...
Journal 3
To understand the origin story of Accordant Investments, you need to understand how IDR fits into the picture. But to get to the heart of what makes IDR ...
Journal 2
Everyone loves a good origin story, right? Hollywood well knows this. Think of all those movie scripts that have been built around what the young ...
Journal 1
Howdy from Dallas, Texas, home of some of the great names in private real estate, such as Crow Holdings and Hillwood Investment Properties.