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[{"id": "hssntjh", "text": "Hahaha I used to think this would work. 1. Loopnet is trash, if you can't afford a costar subscription you're simply not competitive in any sense. \n\n2. I'd call their \"director of real estate\" or whoever I could get a hold of to see about doing tenant rep but after years in the business I found this isn't effective. Getting more listings generated more tenant rep than anything else. Unless you bump elbows with executives/business owners regularly your time is better spend cold calling owners.\n\nEdit: the mid 40 year old that sounded like he maybe did 1 deal a year who commented negativity felt the need to delete his comments and DM angrily for recommending costar hahah", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hsspfej", "text": "I\u2019m an office building owner and I don\u2019t like taking calls but if you're not skip tracing leads that you got off of costar or a better source of data there is no way you're getting access to the people you need to get in front of. LoopNet content is absolutely useless", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hst02bz", "text": "Cold call tenants and ask them.\n\nSend letters out to brokers explaining your wares.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hst5hd1", "text": "Just fyi but costar lease comps rely on the broker providing the info and they almost always dont (why would they?).  Most lease comps on costar just have the move in date, tenant, size, asking rate at time of lease etc.  Ask for an example report before you sign up because if you are expecting a list of expirations you wont find that really.  \n\nId network with brokers, pms, gcs, arcitects, commercial it contractors etc.\n\nThere is a whole world of people too like vending companies, beer wholesalers, it guys, alarm companies, and way more than I can name who always want this info. Maybe look to share leads with them.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hstvr7q", "text": "The tenant, themselves. Any third party resource is going to have information provided by someone who is typically not the tenant and, typically, it is incorrect. CoStar often shows start and/or move-in dates, but rarely expirations. Maybe 2% of all tenants in my market have an accurate expiration date on CoStar. If you really want to get an accurate lease expiration, get it from the tenant.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hsu7upn", "text": "I\u2019d use CoStar for this.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]