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NEW YORK CITY-Looking back, Michael Rizzo, 30, is glad it happened. And he says it will never happen again. The senior associate at CBRE, working the Lower Manhattan market, reports that the best lesson he ever learned was from the deal that got away.
“My senior partner warned me to get an exclusive agreement, but the client didn’t want to sign,” he tells GlobeSt.com. The client was an employment firm looking for some 5,000 feet Downtown. Fresh from college six months before (Rizzo received his finance degree from St. John’s University and has been with CBRE now for six years), he dove into the assignment. “They assured me they would work only with me.”
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John Salustri
John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
