C.Todd Everett, SIOR

Lee & Associates South Florida Principal - Turning South Florida commercial real estate into long-term wealth

[Balaji @balajis]

My view is: you’re not actually mad at me, but mad at the situation. I grant that it sucks, but I didn’t cause decades of money printing and the pending sovereign debt crisis, and neither did you.

But in short: if the Mayflower was American, and leaving England to build New England was American, then leaving the dysfunctional old world to build the new is the most American thing you can do.

A longer response follows.

(1) DID THE IRISH AMERICANS BETRAY IRELAND?
First, did the Irish Americans betray Ireland by leaving for America? Why weren’t they loyal to Ireland? Why did they "cut and run"? Why didn’t they stay and fight the Irish Potato Famine?

And the Puritans...did they traduce England by not returning and fighting with the Roundheads? Were the Virginians disloyal to the other side, the Cavaliers? How about the German Americans…how come they left Europe after the Revolutions of 1848?

Point: virtually every single US ethnic group, other than the African Americans and Native Americans, “fled” some issue in the old world. War, civil war, communism, fascism, fundamentalism. The whole point of the New World was to leave behind dysfunctional, bankrupt states…often caught in the throes of endless left-vs-right conflicts.

If almost every single American is descended from someone who left a dysfunctional state, how can it be un-American to leave a dysfunctional state? Why could your ancestors leave dysfunction, why are they free men... but others can’t move, and are locked to the land?

(2) LOYAL TO BLUE OR RED AMERICANS?
Second, if someone tries being loyal to “the American people”, does that mean being loyal to the 75 million Kamala voters, the Blue Americans? Because if you’re loyal to them, you are unfortunately no longer loyal to the Red Americans.

And that’s the rub. Just as Democrats use “democracy” to mean rule by Democrats, and are then stunned that ~50% of democratic votes keep going to Republicans, Republicans keep using “American” to mean Red American, and are then always angry that ~50% of US citizens are Blue Americans.

Today, Gallup reports only 36% of Democrats are “proud to be American”. They are, however, proud to be Democrats. They’re also not posting on X, but rather on Bluesky. The digital secession, the spiritual secession of Democrats away from a “United” States of America has already happened. That’s unfortunately what polarization means.

This Blue/Red conflict is exactly the kind of left-right fight that the Puritans and Cavaliers left behind in the 1600s, and the German Americans left in the 1800s. Just like there is no Korea, only North Korea and South Korea, there is unfortunately no America any more, only Blue America and Red America. And just like the Korean situation led to a Korean diaspora, the American situation is causing an American diaspora.

(3) STAY AND FIGHT, BUT WHO OR WHAT?
Then, if someone was to stay and fight, who do you want them to fight? Perhaps you want them to fight other Americans (namely Blue Americans), in the name of being an American. Or you want them "fight" a ~$175T sovereign debt crisis, which is like fighting a volcanoa, as it's just the largest bill ever due in history, and something even Elon couldn’t put a dent in.

TLDR: you can’t “stay and fight” a sovereign debt crisis. It’s not something you can punch in the nose.

(4) SHOULD INDIAN AMERICANS STAY OR GO?
Also, in case you haven't noticed, half of MAGA is yelling that Indian tech guys should leave the country, or never come, as they'll never be true Americans. Now others are suddenly mad that Indian tech guys are taking them up on it, and leaving America. Meanwhile, far leftists have begun just shooting at tech guys.

This is just a schizo and unstable situation.

(5) LOYALTY TO IDEALS WAS LOYALTY TO AMERICA
I am loyal to capitalism, democracy, free speech, free markets, science, math, wherever they are. I am loyal to peace and trade, small-l libertarianism, privacy, nonviolence, and technological innovation.

I am also loyal to a specific enumerated group of people, the many friends, coworkers, collaborators, and customers who I’ve worked with over the years, both US citizens and non-citizens, from the Stanford and Silicon Valley of a few decades ago.

These were essentially the mainstream American ideals for decades. Millions of Americans still support them. Indeed, millions of Americans think that blood-and-soil nationalism of the kind you implicitly propound is un-American!

(6) BLOOD AND SOIL, BUT WHAT BLOOD?
Finally, and now we really get down to brass tacks: what test do you propose to determine whether someone is a true American, aside from their current paperwork? Because unlike (say) the Japanese, there is no genetic test that correlates close-to-perfectly with US passport ownership.

Therefore, any definition of who’s American *has* to be civic nationalism from a purely operational standpoint, defined at the “software” level (in terms of law) rather than the hardware level (in terms of genetics).

Yet if you try to get N different rightists to define the “is_american” function you’ll get N different definitions, with and without different minority groups. One that went viral recently is the “Grade A American = Mayflower” thing, which is sort of like wokeness in reverse, but for MAGA.

And look: loyalty means symmetry. I am loyal to you if you are loyal to me. But the way you're talking about loyalty translates to servitude. I've been polite, and engaged you in good faith, but we are strangers. Yet you are demanding gratitude and even deference (!) from me, implicitly on racial grounds, because "you didn't build that, someone else made that happen". Moreover, you are doing so by invoking "the people" in a right-coded variation of the way the Soviets invoked "the people."

I'm sorry, that doesn't fly.

Why would anyone be loyal to a MAGA faction that arbitrarily designates countless millions to be Grade B, C, and D? You can't just redefine the social contract overnight, unilaterally, with some tweets, into a retconned blood-and-soil America that the WASPs themselves shut down...and then get extremely mad when others don't buy into it.

We're just going have to renegotiate these kinds of relationships from scratch, with new opt-in communities, where everyone is a grade A citizen. If that means rebuilding New America outside America, just as New England was built outside England, so be it. The next Mayflower is boarding.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Hyperscalers are on pace to spend $650 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 — and analysts forecast $1.1 trillion in 2027. The entire US defense budget is $886 billion. In two years, private companies will spend more building AI compute than America spends defending the country.

[Bob Knakal | NYC Investment Sales @BobKnakal]

Most people wait until an opportunity becomes obvious.

By then, it's usually too late.

As I have said before, weekends are a perfect time to work on your business, not in your business. And this past Saturday was no different.

We're updating prospect lists, researching neighborhoods, and identifying owners in areas where future rezonings may occur. These changes might not happen for two to three years, but that's exactly why we're doing the work now.

The biggest opportunities do not happen overnight...they're created through preparation.

Years before the Hudson Yards rezoning was approved, we began identifying sites, building relationships, and planting seeds. Those efforts ultimately resulted in the sale of nearly 30 development sites totaling more than 10 million buildable square feet.

Working in your business keeps today moving.
Working on your business builds tomorrow.

Ask yourself:

When was the last time you dedicated time to improving your business instead of simply operating it?

The work you do when nobody is watching often produces the results everyone notices years later.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

As yet another preemptive war is begun in the Middle East, John Quincy Adam’s words of wisdom still ring true:

“Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.”

Like most Americans I have sympathy for the plight of the Iranian people and all subjected people around the globe, from North Korea to Tibet.

But as Adam’s wrote, America:  “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

The Constitution conferred the power to declare or initiate war to Congress for a reason, to make war less likely.  

Madison wrote that “the Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature.”

As with all war, my first and purest instinct is wish Americans soldiers safety and success in their mission.  

But my oath of office is to the Constitution, so with studied care, I must oppose another Presidential war.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Trump has launched an illegal regime change war in Iran with American lives at risk. Congress must convene on Monday to vote on @RepThomasMassie & my WPR to stop this. Every member of Congress should go on record this weekend on how they will vote.

[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

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🚀 Turning South Florida CRE into long-term wealth 🏙️
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📈 Economists lift 2025 GDP forecast to 1.8% — growth steady, optimism rising.
🤖 AI & data centers driving 3.8% biz investment
💳 Spending +2%, 🏦 Powell hints at rate cuts
⚠️ Risks: tariffs, sticky inflation (3.1%)
👷 Jobs slowing, 🚀 productivity seen as upside.
#Economy #AI

[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

📈 NYC’s office market is roaring back.
🏙️ 23.2M sq. ft. leased — most since 2006 (CBRE).
💼 Big moves: Deloitte @ Hudson Yards, JPMorgan’s $3B HQ, Amazon expands.
🏗️ 6+ new towers, record $100+/sf leases.
NYC isn’t recovering — it’s redefining office life.
#CRE #NYC

[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

🌴 South Florida CRE is thriving — and Palm Beach County is leading the way.

I specialize in helping investors & owners buy/sell:
🏢 Multi-tenant office
🏭 Industrial properties
🛍️ High-street retail
Let’s connect.📩 DM me for valuations, insights & off-market deals.
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[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

Fed rate cuts may jumpstart CRE after values fell 20%+ since 2022. 📉
✅ Boost sales, lending & refis
✅ Office-to-apartment conversions more feasible
⚠️ Risks: high vacancies, inflation, weak economy
🌐 Bright spot: data centers (AI demand)
(WSJ, 9/22/25) #CRE #SIOR #NAIOP

[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

🚀 West Palm Beach approves $2M deal to lure AI HQ “Project Flagship.”

👩‍💻 856 jobs | 💵 $170K avg salary
🏗️ $50M investment | 💰 $280M+ impact
WPB doubles down on its future as the “Wall Street of the South” + tech hub. #AI #SouthFlorida

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[Lee & Associates South Florida @LeeSouthFlorida]

🏙️ QuarterLEE Market Reports are out! South Florida’s Office market shows resilience, Retail thrives on limited supply, Multifamily and Industrial sectors face higher vacancies but maintain demand.

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[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

U.S. Office Market Update: Companies like Amazon and Dell push in-office policies, stabilizing vacancies. Office space demand grows for amenities-rich sites, while investor interest rises in prime and distressed assets, signaling cautious optimism.

[C.Todd Everett, SIOR @CToddSIOR]

“We project that the familiar will last, we reject the possibilities of the future and frame them as nothing more than madness and science-fiction fantasy. But they are not.” Mo Gawdat #mustread