Author: "The Insider's Guide to Commercial Real Estate"

                 Cindy Chandler

6325 Gaywind Drive/Charlotte, NC 28226
         704-366-8482  fax 366-1722     

email:   cindy@cindychandler.com        www.cindychandler.com                

CURRENT:

The Chandler Group – Consulting
Areas of focus:  Real estate training, consulting, acquisitions analysis, development, leasing and syndication.  Also marketing for real estate and non real estate clients.  Specialize in commercial real estate.   Involved with others in various real estate developments.

PAST POSITIONS:

The Cogdell Group, Inc. - Project Manager
Responsibilities: Development, financing, syndication, leasing, construction management, tenant up fitting of medical office buildings.

Pulte Home Corporation - Sales Consultant, Custom Homes
Responsibilities: Marketing, presentation and sales of custom homes.

Cannon Company - Vice President
Responsibilities: Management of apartments, development, financing and marketing of apartments under development, management and lot sales of a 377 lot single family community, general brokerage and Partner correspondence.

Crosland-Erwin-Associates (now The Crosland Group) - Vice President
Responsibilities: Legal liaison, Corporate Secretary, office management, real estate financing and brokerage, personnel administration, development, refinancing, retrofits and tenant finishes.

Paragon Group - Director of Commercial Property Management; Director of Personnel; Special Projects
Responsibilities: Management of commercial real estate for Mid-Atlantic Region, including leasing, budgeting, owner correspondence, capital programs, lease administration, acquisitions, tenant finish, tenant relations.

 

Community & Industry  Involvement:

 y   2007 Chair, RCA-NAR (Realtors® Commercial Alliance of the National Association of Realtors®)

 y   2006 President of NCAR (North Carolina Association of Realtors®)

 y   2003 Chair, RCA-NCAR (Realtors® Commercial Alliance of the NC Association of Realtors®

 y   2004 Chair of NCAR’s Professional Standards Committee (2003 Vice Chair)

 y    Past President of the North Carolina Real Estate Educators Association (NCREEA)

 y  Past Regional VP of the National Real Estate Educators Association (REEA). 

  y  Vice Chair f the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission - Former Chair of Zoning.

  y  2004 Chair Education Committee - Charlotte Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors®

  y  2005 Chair, NAR RCA Leadership Forum (2004 Vice Chair)

  y  2004 Chair, Grievance Committee- Charlotte Regional Realtor® Association

 Some past activities and accomplishments include:

    -            “2001 Educator of the Year”, Real Estate Educators Association

    -            Educator of the Year, PREEA (SC REEA), 2000

    -            Secretary & Executive Committee, REEA

    -           Chairman of Mecklenburg County's Zoning Board of Adjustment, 1992-98

    -            Educator of the Year – NCREEA, 1996

    -           Committee Member of the Year – Charlotte Region Commercial Board of REALTORS®

    -                      Outstanding Educational Program of the Year – NCREEA, 1998

    -                      President – CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women)

 

 Current Designations/Licenses/Certifications:

    - CRE – Counselor of Real Estate, NAR

    - CCIM – Certified Commercial Investment Member, NAR

    - DREI – Distinguished Real Estate Instructor, Real Estate Educators Association

    - ITI Certified – Instructor Training Institute, NC Association of Realtors®

    - Real Estate Broker’s License, North Carolina and South Carolina

    - Real Estate Instructor (state approved), North Carolina and South Carolina

 

Inactive:

    - CSM – Certified Shopping Center Manager, awarded by International Council of Shopping Centers

    - PHR – Professional of Human Resources, awarded by American Society of Personnel Administrators

   - Securities Licenses 22 & 63

   - RECS – Real Estate Cyberspace Specialist, awarded by the RE Cyber Society

 

Key Experience

Experience in managing income property - apartments, shopping centers, office buildings which included budgeting, capital improvement programs, owner relations and correspondence, cash and tax projections, personnel issues, vendor relations and training.

Experienced Trainer in many aspects in the real estate field - including multi-family, commercial real estate, investment real estate, financing and license law.

Experience in analyzing income properties for investors, owners and lenders.

Experience in financial analysis - syndicating real estate, providing financial forecasts, before and after tax.  Financial modeling.

Experience in Partnerships -I have been a General Partner and have structured Limited Partnerships, Joint Ventures and General Partnerships, LLC's and a REIT.

Experience in financing & closings - Negotiations for original financing as well as refinancing on all types of income property and land.

Superior analytical skills, analyzing complex deals, gathering relevant information.   I am computer literate.

Reasonable communication skills - "cut to the chase" on both written and spoken situations.       Can be politically smooth when needed.

Experience with acquisitions - both land and income real estate.

Experience in construction - apartment, shopping centers, office buildings, capital improvements, rehabilitations.