Top 5 behaviors of 2009 “Ilia, I have a super offer for you or a client of yours”. “Hello, what happened?” “Check your email. You have time until Monday morning at 11.00″. “To do what?” “There is a very well known friend of mine who decided to sell two of his cars for a very low price, 60% under their value”. “But you know, I don’t deal with cars, I am into Real Estate”. “You may have someone, check and have a look. But please don’t say this to someone if you are not sure he has money cash”. One of the usual 15 – 20 emails I receive per hour was also this email of his. He is a collaborator of [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]“I sell my Ferrari and BMW with 80% discount, but I am still a smecher”
Filed Under: Uncategorized on Nov 04, 2010 @ 10:11 AM
Mr “Goldneck”, a fake “Bentley” and a factory up on Dracula’s hill
Filed Under: Uncategorized on Oct 29, 2010 @ 7:00 AM
(part 1) “Another client for a major industrial property to buy? What happened?” I am in Romania since 2004 and there were periods of months when I did not have any request for major industrial projects out of Bucharest. And that moment I found myself having two! My colleagues were ready to kill me, as the papers we received by the owners were… crap. We had plenty of extra work to do, before we would have been able to decide if a property was suitable for what we were searching for. “Mister Ilias, you like to complicate your life” one of them told me. “Not only mine, when we have to work for [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]“I sell my Ferrari and BMW with 80% discount, but I am still a smecher”
Filed Under: Uncategorized on Oct 11, 2010 @ 9:01 AM
Top 5 behaviors of 2009 This article was published on 25.01.2010 “Ilia, I have a super offer for you or a client of yours”. “Hello, what happened?” “Check your email. You have time until Monday morning at 11.00″. “To do what?” “There is a very well known friend of mine who decided to sell two of his cars for a very low price, 60% under their value”. “But you know, I don’t deal with cars, I am into Real Estate”. “You may have someone, check and have a look. But please don’t say this to someone if you are not sure he has money cash”. One of the usual 15 – 20 emails I receive per hour was also [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]Top 5 behaviors of 2009The “large” broker
Article published on 18.01.2010 Last August was hot, as always. In Greek we say that “the flies are fat” and noone works. Noone? Not exactly, you could see a crazy guy, dressed with suit and tie walking from one meeting to the other, trying to sort out things and finish pending tasks before his own vacation. I (the crazy guy) had just finished a meeting at Hilton and walked down, crossing Calea Victoriei. I entered strada Luterana heading to my destination. On my left hand I was looking at the famous “Cathedral Plaza” office building project, on my right I was watching the waiters preparing the [...]
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Romanian Real Estate market, Autumn 2010 After the Second World War and the civil one that followed, Greece was a poor, destroyed country. Some Greek movies, comedies, were offering few moments of happiness to people. The most popular ones were describing / criticizing the society’s habits, perceptions or prejudices. In one of these movies the most popular Greek comedian was trying to help his sister get married (Greek brothers had to wait their sisters get married first and then they “had the right to” marry as well). She was around 45 – 46, looking like 50, with good manners and many other [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]The perfect trick: “1 golden coin for 1 coat”
This article was published on 18.05.2010 100 years ago, there was a town. Commerce was going well and everything was normal until one Monday during September someone new in the city appeared at the central square and announced: “Whoever brings me one coat, I will pay him with 1 golden coin”. That time a coat’s price was maximum the equivalent of 0,1 golden coin”. People were confused, but some of them returned soon with a coat. They were curious to see what will happen. The unknown man paid them, 1 golden coin for each coat. The whole town started discussing about this. 50 coats were sold… [...]
[relevant-to-adsense]“The bordello’s guard”A story that shows us how crisis can become an opportunity…
(part 2, to read part 1, please press here) More assignments… – “Aren’t you the expert with tools?” someone asked him after 2 days. – “Am I?” – “I think you are, my friend told me that you brought him the best hummer and you also didn’t try to steal him, overcharging your expenses”. – “I never overcharge, why to steal someone?” – “Could you please go to the city for me too? I need 3 tools, which I don’t find here”. – “Sure, when I will be free I will go there”. In just few weeks time, he had been to the city for more than 10 people, buying all sorts of tools. Then he started having requests [...]
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Few days ago, on Tuesday, I had presented to you an interview of Mr Gavin Ryan, an expert in Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. As far as I understood from your feedback, this subject was really interesting for you, as the official information about this segment is really limited. This is why I decided to address to Mr Ryan again, summing some of your questions and adding some new ones. This domain is really interesting and I think that it worths to know ... 
