What was an unexpected event that occurred in 2018, and how did it impact your career or personal life?
Receiving recognition from my peers and industry friends as the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) first recipient as the Humanitarian of the Year. This award reiterates the value of volunteering that my parents taught me how important it is to give back to the community and the impact a person can make touching other people in need lives in positive ways.
What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018?
The most difficult industrial deal is unequivocally the complicated sale of 3800 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Bohemia. This deal was the most time consuming and lengthy deal of 2018 for my brother, Michael Zere and me.
What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018?
Earning the trust and respect of a new client who repeatedly tells me, “I am so glad that I chose to hire you and your firm as my accountant.”
What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018?
A client came to me who hired a contractor which failed to pay its subcontractors, was completely behind schedule, was overcharging the client, and had no real written agreement.
What was an unexpected event that occurred in 2018, and how did it impact your career or personal life?
This year I was involved in eight different residential real estate deals that were part of probate estates. Typically, in any given year there might be one or two such deals, so to have eight was unusual and, as it turns out, very gratifying.
What was an unexpected event that occurred in 2018, and how did it impact your career or personal life?
Tennis and the tennis center I own in Williamsburg, Brooklyn are my passions. My success in real estate allows me to spend time on what I love. The importance of focusing on the specific needs and dreams of those who work with me was reinforced this year after speaking to a fellow RE/MAX broker from California.
What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018?
Briscoe is partnering with Worldwide Security and Scan Security to create one business has resulted in our establishment as one of the largest privately held fire and security companies in New York.
What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018?
I represented Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies in its $380 million construction loan to a Penzance-led venture on a site in West Rosslyn, Virginia, just across the Potomac from Washington, D.C. to fund construction of a 1,200,000 sf mixed use development.
What market trend(s) will impact your industry in 2019?
Lead-based paint and lead in drinking water is hot in the press, New NY Mold law in 2019.
What was the best decision that you made in 2018 and how did it impact your business?
In retrospect, it appears that the best decision I made in 2018 was to continue to self-fund the development of our item tracking technology, TygaTrax, in spite of delays, setbacks and growing self-doubt because the product is ROCK-SOLID, tracking & securing corporate assets 100% accurately 100% of the time.
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