Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail @tylerbradfield Twitter profile

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

3 years

Real estate owners receive countless calls. 6 years ago I realized how to differentiate myself from the other callers, and it changed my career - a thread 🧵

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

I’m baffled that they can make these things taste just like vanilla ice cream with only 5 grams of sugar and 26 grams of protein. Seems too good to be true. Im not sure there won’t be a class action law suit in 20 years when we realize they causes mesothelioma, but I’ll enjoy

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@tylerbradfield

2 years

@JaycelAdkins @alexplitsas That dude was the light in the midst of darkness, if the reports are true.

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9 months

@SFR_Investor At least they figured out that they shouldn’t eat the tide pods… 🤷🏼‍♂️

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@tylerbradfield

2 months

Tech did a nice job on their renovations. The Jones should be the class of the big 12 from an atmosphere standpoint if they’re rolling.

Joey McGuire 🌵

@JoeyMcGuireTTU

2 months

Beautiful night in the Hub City!!! #WreckEm

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

Some folks act like your life is over when you have kids. It literally is the most fun thing I’ve ever done.

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@tylerbradfield

4 years

Dear fellow #CRE brokers, please stop listing completely vacant buildings on Costar with a cap rate. #petpeeve

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@tylerbradfield

8 months

Team Bradfield grew this week! My bride absolutely blew me away with her strength, as she chose an unmedicated delivery. I don’t know if I’ve ever been as stressed and prayed as much as I did on Monday. I’m a very blessed man.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Residential agent called asking if we would sell a pad site in one of my projects to a daycare. I asked him to submit an LOI, and he sent me a letter with his buyer explaining why they intend to buy the site.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

@zerohedge I’d assume it’s because Congress is getting one hell of a kick back, along with the big guy…

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@wjruss84 This.

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@tylerbradfield

4 months

@_delconte You introducing Schloss to his new neighbors at Disch Falk?

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

5 years

Ran across a video interviewing students at the @TexasFFA Convention. I was involved in that program for most of my teen years, yet I was still blown away at how well spoken and articulate the students were on camera. No program prepares HS students for career success like FFA

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@tylerbradfield

6 months

@MariettaCRE Buy em by the case. I think it comes out to a little over $3 per. I keep normal whey at home, but it’s nice to keep these at the office to grab on the go and not have to worry about cleaning a shaker.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

I had a landlord in College Station that was notoriously difficult to work with and would pay every commission 60-90 days late. He called recently and said that he expected to be my first call if I found any good deals in San Antonio.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

@PeterBurnsESPN I’m all for players getting their due, but when there are so many teams/athletes, how much did they expect?

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

10 months

No one prepared me to deal with an aging family. Over the past four months, my mom has been fighting stage 2 adenocarcinoma. I’d be lying if I said it hasn’t affected my productivity and focus, and that’s okay. 11 days ago we were at MD Anderson for a her second surgery, this

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

@PCPGtyler You mean 42 grams or are you getting it confused with your 40 oz Mickey’s?

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Cheers to 33. Spending the evening with my girls, thinking about how blessed I’ve been over the past 32.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

11 months

Life has thrown a lot at me over the last 18 months, some amazing things and some not so great. I spent last weekend at a marriage retreat, working on my relationship with my most important business partner. After all the life that has happened over the past 7 years, it was

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

My wife loves farmer’s markets. I hate farmer’s markets so we compromised and went to the farmers market. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

8 years

If you've read Relentless by @ATTACKATHLETICS , Brady epitomizes a cleaner. Unbelievable. Inspiring. I'm not a Pats fan. #SuperBowl

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

1.Throw the script out and be a real person. Every other person cold calling is working off a script. Have an outline for the call and be up front as to why you’re calling, but let the conversation flow and look for opportunities to ask open ended questions.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

When an attorney gets involved at lease draft and tries to renegotiate hotly contested deal terms from the LOI.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

“Mr. Smith, this is Tyler Bradfield. I’m interested in your property at 123 street. How are things going over there?”

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

My wife can fall asleep 5 minutes after laying down. I wish I had that super power.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

Lord, give me the confidence of someone with no real estate experience calling a broker. Call from today: “Oh, you’re crazy if you think you can get that for this property.” “Funny you say that, we just got a LOI for pretty close to that, so have a nice day…”

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 years

Really excited to be working on a premier ground up development in College Station. 2x the median income of our competing sites Highway frontage with some of the highest traffic counts in the market Strong sales for area retailers and restaurants Who do you think we land here?

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

6. Casually ask for the business again at the meeting. 7. Ask them when you should follow up. This is the easiest way to give your self permission to follow up, without being annoying.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

2.Ask as many questions as possible without being invasive. “What do you love about this property?” “What would you change about this property?” 3.Ask for the business mid conversation. “Would you mind if I brought you an offer on this property?”

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

5 months

I have struggled with ADD all my life, but when I began my career, I became desperate to find some solutions. Early in my career, I would have one really good day of focus per week, and the rest would produce mixed to poor results. Medication isn't the answer for me, since I

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

@realEstateTrent I try to operate under the assumption that no one owes me anything. Can’t imagine going through life with this level of entitlement.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 years

@glenBRPM @PeterBurnsESPN @RossDellenger

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

5.Take them to lunch or drinks! The goal of the call is not to get the sale, its to build a relationship. Business is supposed to be as much fun as it is work. Take these folks to lunch or drinks and get to know them.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 months

@amuse @DC_Draino It was within range of a 9 year old with a standard deer rifle. I’ve literally seen kids make tougher shots. Absolutely no excuse for that roof to not be secured. Even if Trump’s detail is understaffed, which seems to be the case, put three or four local cops on the building to

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

@MultifamilyRob I’ve seen worse from college kids that only lived there for 10 months! Pretty solid tenant, if they paid on time.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Well, my wife had a shitty day…

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

8 months

My wife is 6 days past our due date. Pray for us! 🤦🏼‍♂️😅

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 years

Excited to announce that I will be relocating to our San Antonio office at the beginning of next year. I will be leading our retail services team and get back to my first love of investment sales. #CRE #SATX

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

Offer up solutions to their problems, & when possible do it in the form of a question. “That’s interesting. Have you ever considered xyz solution?” The more you can be the solution to their problems, the more $ you will make. This can be as simple as recent market activity.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 years

Had a prospect for one of my listings tell me I’m not near as fat as I look in my headshot. 🤣🤣🤣

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

@realEstateTrent Google earth! I’m such a nerd on there. Scrolling back to old aerials to see development trends, comparing the tenant mix on street view to current tenant mix to get a feel for turnover, checking parking lot usage. The uses are endless. Use it a bunch for fishing and hunting

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

Even if you don’t buy/work on their deal they can always send you referrals, and you’re 10 steps ahead of the competition when they eventually decide to sell. The less you talk about real estate, the better.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

4 months

I’m sorry, but if you can’t even mark up an LOI, we’re having to explain what common deal points/language mean, and were doing all the work, we’re not paying you a 4% tenant rep fee because you heard it was market for commercial. This is why commercial agents get frustrated

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Just a word of the wise, don’t forget that bottle of bourbon you bought on Friday in your truck over the weekend…

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@CFBONFOX @RJ_Young Lol terrible hot take with unwatchable delivery. Seriously I couldn’t give this video more than 20 seconds of my life.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

@chowenmarie Makes you strong like bull?

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@realEstateTrent The most effective thing I’ve found in my cold calling is sincerity. I talk to owners like we’re old friends, offer help wherever I can, ask to take them to lunch. No scripts, no hard sell. It’s surprising how often it works.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 months

@FarmerBrown1969 @MattWallace888 Back shooter may have gotten off a couple of rounds. Front shooter is off his gun for a split second, in disbelief I’m sure, to confirm what he’s seeing. No excuse, but my interpretation of what happened.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

11 months

I swear, 60% of brokers I talk to have two offers just shy of list, on properties I inquire about. 😒 Then two months later, the property is still somehow available.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

@realEstateTrent

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

I was taught to cold call like most – “Here’s how you find phone numbers, here’s a script. If you want to make $100K, you need to make X dials. $200K = Y. $300K = Z.” It’s a numbers and tenacity game, so be efficient. Add the no’s to a drip campaign and move on.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

It’s a great day to get a fully executed 45,000 SF lease in your inbox.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

9 months

Anyone surprised that costar/homes.com’s Super Bowl commercial was awful?

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

7 months

I've noticed that there's been a correlation between the darkest points in this brokerage journey being followed by the biggest steps forward in my skillset and drive. My first year in the business, my lights were cut off twice and I had to baby sit my old boss' daughters to

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

4.Bring value – Regardless of the answer to point 3, you’ll naturally uncover problems with the properties if you’re asking the right questions.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 months

@BuildtoSuitBurt Discount brokerage is nothing new. My experience in the year I did residential was that the discount agents were so preoccupied by trying to get as many listings as possible, that they forgot to pick up the phone on calls for their active listings.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

9 months

I’m in the awkward stage of our pregnancy where I’m warning my clients that I could go off the radar for a couple of days at any point. They (and my team) have been fantastic and I have a plan to notify everyone, but it still gives me tinge of anxiety. Ready to get baby boy

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@realEstateTrent For all their Texas stores before and during Covid and walked their broker through the data. They ended up deferring rent for 3 months and extending the term. Probably the most fun I’ve had working a deal.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

What’s it going to take to get separate licenses for residential and commercial real estate? I just had a resi agent reach out about a listing and admit “I don’t know what I’m doing on a commercial lease. How does this work?”

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

Never thought I’d see the aurora borealis in central Texas. Pretty cool!

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

@MultifamilyRob Man, I used to think the same way and then I realized dihydrogen monoxide sounds pretty scary, even though it’s just water.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

Does anyone bother calling office lines anymore? I’m calling a cell phone 100% of the time, if I have it.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@jodicockrell “Maybe time running out is a gift I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift And give you every second I can find And hope it isn't me who's left behind” That song haunts me and gives me perspective at the same time.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

7 months

Every damn time… Gets lead 😁 Asks about the use 🫣 Vape shop 🫠

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

“No, we cannot turn my Bed Bath and Beyond space into a gas station.” Was definitely on the list of phrases I didn’t think I would have to say today, but here we are…

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Anchor Opportunity Available - College Station, Texas 🔴24,737 SF at Texas Avenue Crossing 🔴Directly across from Texas A&M - Largest Student Body in the nation 🔴Over 700' of Texas Ave & Bush Dr frontage - 103K VPD 📈Improved tenant line up increased foot traffic 53% YOY (2022)

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

2024 Red River ICSC will be January 31-Feb 2. Baby Bradfield #2 is due February 6th…

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Not only do I have to attend a wedding during the Bama/A&M game, but I have to officiate the ceremony, so I can't even follow along... 🥲

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

You don’t always have to be the highest offer to win the deal. If a seller is certain in your ability to perform and that you’ll be easy to work with, they’ll frequently take a little less. This applies to everything from #cre to boats. 😎

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

6 months

Since I was in @CoyDavidsonCRE ’s city, it only felt right to post a Tex-Mex pic. Probably the best Tex-Mex I’ve had outside of San Antone or South Texas.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Productive morning recharging for the second half of the year. Got some reading in on the exercise bike and then knocked out a light workout. In other news, I want to be @BobKnakal when I grow up. Enjoying the new book @DominateCRE !

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

5 months

@ProductStrat3gy We had an appointment scheduled to get vaxxed. My wife’s good friend is an ER nurse and texted us to not get the vaccine; that she had seen a crazy increase in 20-40 year olds admitted with major heart issues and strokes. The only commonality was that they were all vaccinated.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 years

Just added “ buyer will provide to seller a personally autographed jersey as additional independent consideration” to an LOI for one of my buyers, per the seller’s request. Whatever helps get a deal done, I guess 😂

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

@chernobelskiy Be a real person/be conversational. Add value and ask questions.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

4 months

A fully agreed upon LOI for a 100,000 sf retail center is one hell of a way to start the 4th of July.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

7 months

Portillo's is a pad user to be on the look for across the sunbelt. They opened 12 locations in 2023, and have another 9 new stores planned for 2024. They put up big numbers with an AUV of $9.1M. Link Below -

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@realEstateTrent I mean if @TheCoStarGroup would just hire a web developer to bring their platform from 2006 into 2021 and actually make searching for a property easy, I wouldn’t hate them so much. Instead they hire more people to call my cell phone to try to sell me more silver listings.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

I have a very pregnant and very upset wife crying because she’s hungry but nothing sounds good.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

My favorite job is being a dad. That’s it, that’s the tweet.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

😂😂😂 I’d probably do the same TBH.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

My wife has had Covid for the past 10 days. Our 18 month old started mocking her cough, and I crack up every time. Momma ain’t happy with either of us right now. 😅

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

5 months

My power was cut off twice my first year in CRE. I could have asked for help from family or my firm, but I wanted to be more afraid of not performing than I was to pick up the phone and prospect. It worked.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Enjoying my Cinco De Mayo on the border.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

9 months

AC/DC is the greatest band of all time, and no one can convince me otherwise.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

Much needed.

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@tylerbradfield

1 year

@AggieBaseball

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

4 months

Every pickleball tenant right now - "we do pickleball, but were different." *Sends over a pitch deck that looks just like their competitors.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 months

Fifteen years ago today, I gave a speech in front of about 9,000 people at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson convention center in Dallas, while running for State FFA Office. I puked back stage before walking out, I clumsily stumbled over a bit of my speech, and I realized my zipper was

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

11 months

@realEstateTrent Yeah, I watched that episode of Black Mirror. That’s a hard pass from me.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 years

@creromans St. John USVI. I went with my uncle before I got into CRE. Met three brokers on that trip and decided to make a career change.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

Best bird I’ve cooked! Thankful for time with family and a little R&R before closing out the year strong.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

It’s amazing how many brokers refuse to put pricing in their flyer, but also refuse to return a call or an email.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

Today was my last day in the office for 2021. 21’ pushed me to stretch my mental limitations. Highlights of the year included breaking my previous records on list price three times, closing the largest transaction of my career, and increasing my closed transaction by 50%.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

2 years

A client sent me a box of prime steaks as a “thank you” on a recent closing. Pretty solid way to say thank you in Texan.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@realEstateTrent Had a national tenant who restructured through chapter 11 during Covid. Strong company that was previously mismanaged by a PEG and riddled with debt. They declared force majeure, quit paying rent, and claimed they were going to close the store. I pulled cell phone location data

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

@White_RhinoCap @realEstateTrent Foot traffic, or at the time number of curbside orders. Their average sale is north of $100, so we were able to extrapolate a pretty high rent to sales estimate that the broker didn’t dispute.

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

3 years

The last of the meat from the axis buck I took last winter. Can’t beat it!

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Tyler Bradfield | Central Texas Retail

@tylerbradfield

1 year

I’m a procrastinator and am just booking my hotel for ICSC Vegas. Looking forward to finally meeting some of my friends from Twitter in real life Anyone stayed at the Park MGM? I have events at Aria and want to be close but won’t be dropping $5k on a room. Only my 2nd Vegas trip

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