You too can be a real estate mogul
If you thought buying or selling a house was fun, you might be ready for a dizzying new update of the classic Monopoly game that promises to teach you how to navigate through complex commercial real estate transactions. The promotional website for Mogul shows Mom, Dad and the kids around the dining room table playing a board game. They appear to be having a delightful time tackling such "real world scenarios" as cap rates, tenant leases, operating expenses, liability insurance, closing costs and much more. It sounds like the game would cause the kind of intellectual stress real commercial brokers refer to as "brain damage," but it does have a ring of truth. Perhaps an advanced version of Mogul will nurture dark real estate skills such as bad-rapping the competition, renegotiating a deal at the last minute and fighting over sales commissions. It better, if it really wants to be "the most realistic real estate trading game ever created."
Roger Vincent
These are the kinds of posts that we don't really care about.
Save them for the RE section.
Posted by: E | October 30, 2008 at 06:44 PM
Yawn. E, we are sure going to miss Peter.
Posted by: anonymous | October 30, 2008 at 07:30 PM
A clear pitch for Christmas and fourth quarter sales. Pick a product and please Madison Avenue/corporate advertisers.. This post must have made upper management very pleased. Keep this up and you will lose the readers of this blog very quickly.
Posted by: aj | October 31, 2008 at 06:52 AM
roger: whoever you are you have a tough crowd to please. lets see what else you wrote about.....
Posted by: mike | October 31, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Incredible ... just what we all need arm the public with just enough information to get themselves into a new world of hurt!
Posted by: chris schreiber | October 31, 2008 at 02:27 PM