Cort 2010 Holday iPad Promotional Party

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to our wonderful event. We had 41 individuals in the industry show up and enjoy the Red Accordian food, some drinks, wii bowling and of course someone was able to win the iPad.

Again we want to say thank you to all of our clients and customers, as well wish everyone a safe and Happy Holiday.

Kind Regards

US Unemployment Rate vs. Education Level

The Great Recession and subsequent disappointing recovery have been much harder on less-educated workers. The unemployment rate in August was 9.6 percent overall, but this masked large differences based on levels of education. For workers without a high school diploma, the average rate was 14.0 percent while just 4.6 percent of workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher were unemployed. The spread between the unemployment rates for these two categories of workers reached a peak of 10.8 percentage points in August 2009 and has come down slightly since then to 9.4 percentage points. The largest gap before the Great Recession was 9.0 percentage points, which occurred in May 1992 shortly after the government began collecting that statistic in January of that year. The reason for the large gap in the current cycle is that the construction and manufacturing industries were hit much harder than any other sector of the economy. This relates to a question that economists have been debating recently: Is part of the increase in the unemployment rate structural in nature or is most or all of the increase due to the recession and soft demand. The unusually wide spread between workers with low and high levels of education suggests that some of the gap could be structural, perhaps due to cheaper production costs overseas, increasing labor productivity in the U.S. or a mismatch between the needs of employers and the skills of workers. Any or all of these trends could be a contributing factor to the slow pace of hiring, which has critical implications for the recovery of the commercial real estate leasing markets.

Statistical Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Grubb & Ellis

Milwaukee Flood

We wish the best wishes from Cort to everyone affected by the flood. We hope everyone has managed to survive through the struggle of Mother nature and want to let anyone know that we are working with a great deal of restoration companies to get this matter resolved as soon as possible for all the commercial clients and the residential clients we have and work with.

At this moment we would say over 70% of the mess is totaly cleaned up.

:)

WERC - Habitat Build

Just a Follow up the great day Cort had with the WERC her ein Milwaukee. We painted a home on 4th st. The home is a part of a 3 year 36 new home build project taken on by the Habitat organization. We had a great time - 13 people showed up, and we primed the whole house upstairs and main floor in 6 hours.

IREM Golf Outting

The 2010 IREM Golf Outting was a huge success. We at Cort had a great time hosting Hole 13, we met some great people thorughout the Apartment Industry. We hope everyone had a great time as well

IREM Spring Seminar Event

Sitting at the 2010 IREM Spring Seminar Event @ the Milwaukee Italian Community Center. Having a great time listening to Toni Blake taling and motivate people on Social Media. Its fun, informing, and exciting.

Great Stuff Toni,

Until Next Time.......

College/University Students Benefit from Furniture Rental

There is so much to offer with furniture hire that they may even provide things you'd normally forget about. Common rental items that a student would require are things like folding chairs to stack away easily, chair covers for the mishaps that happen at most house gatherings, tables for extra places for food and drink and handy extras like a sofa with an additional fold out bed and rugs and lamps to help brighten the place for your guests.

Short term hire is not the only option if you're planning to stay in your apartments longer than you thought. Most furniture hire agencies provide the ability for you to rent your items long term so there's no worrying about what to do after they've been picked up. Some palced even include a rent to own alternative. The International Furniture Rental Association states "those living in an apartment for two years or less may benefit from renting furniture, while those who plan to stay for three years or more might be better off opting to buy" This may be something you can use as a guideline.

You can also do all your renting and ordering on the internet which saves even more time for the average busy student. You can search and show your housemates/roomates to discuss styles etc. then all you have to do is wait for delivery which again is of average 48 hours.

So if you're a student and have a big cash crunch like so many others of today's world do, why not try someting that is beneficial rather than a waste of your time and start looking into furniture rental?

Article Source: ArticlesAlley.com

Until Next Time.....

Weather is a factor..

Today we all woke up to the fact that it was 20 degrees lower outside than the temperature was yesterday. As well the normal tune to Saturday busy traffic was not there....

Usually on Saturday's I would drive down Capitol to the Caribou for a fresh dark roast...the drive would last around 10-15 minutes.... Today however, I believe the weather attributed to an easier ride, made it in 6 minutes (no I did not speed).

This Saturday was different as well for me as I had to provide a tour to a new employee of a large international company (good news). The weather affected 'the spirit' of the tour, and I believe some of the judgement calls were made due to the gloomy weather we had.

Overall the lack of vehicles on the road did not at all influence me into thinking we are in even rougher times, just that people had quickly adapted to the very nice weather this past week and did not want to drive through it.

The apartment industry stayed busy through it and amount of person traffic on this gloomy saturday was not amazing or dead....we will just have to call it a constant day.

Until next time,

Geico commercial Shows Buffet's Wild Side

Warren Buffet sings Axel rose style in this Geico Commercial. I think it is awesome, and from the article it states that the singers in the commercial are in fact Geico employees. The thing that tops the employees actually singing for Geico is that Warren Buffet himself even blasts out a few verses. I love the get-up and tattoo's. Berkshire Hathaway employees will be able to enjoy the head of the company for years to come.

Great Job,

until next time...

AASCW - Marriot In Madison

The Tradeshow was great!!! We were lucky enough to have our booth next to the bar (for no extra charge), guareenteed us a great crowd. Met some old acquaintances, and started conversations and connections with new ones. I would like to Thank Peter and Kelley for the hard work and the great job helping make it a success.

After the trade show we had a bite to eat at Claddagh Irish Pub in Middleton, great fish and chips, if you ever get the chance stop in a treat yourself to the stomach full of goodness.

Until next time....

Thanks for tuning in

First blog

Hello,

This is my first Blog, here goes to making this a huge success. I will most often talk and chat about things that have no relevancy to anything I do. Most often they will be things I like to consider as tips for the Industry.

So for the first time,

Thanks for checking in,

Greg