By Brian Seiffert and Joseph Rodriguez

Prospective owners may not have a crystal ball to avoid bad investments, but they can surround themselves with industry leaders and professional consultants to give them a good idea of what to expect. Today, it’s more important than ever to conduct a pre-acquisition technology infrastructure survey that runs a figurative fine-tooth comb over a community’s telecom components. It’s simply not enough to identify current providers and their service offering, as those services may not be competitive with advanced services being deployed at competing communities nearby.

A RealtyCom pre-acquisition site survey is conducted prior to a client’s purchase of an existing multi-family property. The survey includes inspection of existing structured cabling (i.e. homeruns to units, wiring between buildings, wiring within common areas, etc.), photo/video documentation of existing space and equipment within telecom closets ( MDF, IDF, AV, back of house, etc), and all conduit/sleeves/pathways. During the structured cabling portion of the survey, our field engineer identifies cable types in use and provides insight on feasibility of potential post wiring solutions. This information is gathered by:

• Identifying how difficult upgrading/placing new cables will be (use of attic space to retrofit IDF to unit homerun wiring)
• Noting whether the […]
  

Rush Blakely is at the heart of RealtyCom Partners, managing the entire team, our strategic and financial vision for the company, as well as lending his negotiation skills for our client’s new development projects.

Rush quickly became an integral part of the team after joining RealtyCom in 2015, showing dogged determination with the various service providers to solicit the best level of service and compensation for our clients, while overseeing complex technical projects. He grew our business operations team and in 2016, relocated to our corporate office from Southern California.  In 2018, Rush was promoted to President. He brings diverse experience from senior leadership positions with Time Warner Cable (now Charter Spectrum) and Comcast where he led successful multifamily sales teams in Texas, California and North Carolina. He ran all sales channels for Logic/WestStar, a fiber to the home provider in the Cayman Islands. Prior to his career in telecommunications, Rush managed a construction lending portfolio with Wells Fargo Bank. He holds a BA in Finance from Texas A&M University, his birth state.

If you’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Rush directly, his love of motorcycles, poker-playing and fine Cuban cigars has […]

By Susan Krok

As 2020 winds down, we recognize we’re all experiencing deeply hard times from unemployment and business losses, illness, isolation, and the loss of loved ones. RealtyCom is fortunate to be able to continue operating remotely and honor this year’s season of giving by hosting a virtual Charitable Giving Contest with our team.

In lieu of volunteering our time and attending our annual charity dinner, we relied on our amazing team to nominate, teach us about their organization’s mission, and ultimately donated to charities closest to our hearts. It was illuminating to learn about charities we were not aware of, and to hear about the amazing work they are doing.

After overwhelming participation, we were hard-pressed to choose just one since they were all very worthy causes and in need more now than ever.  Thanks to Zoom we received immediate voting results, and are proud to announce RealtyCom’s charitable donations were made to the following:

• The Hidden Genius Project that trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities.
• The Gilead House offering hope to women and children in need, providing transitional housing, education, and therapeutic support that leads […]