We at IAG Commercial Real Estate are a team. We work closely together and support one another in order to provide a comprehensive solution for our clients. We thought you might to know our team a little better. After all, we are not JUST about work!
Jeff is a former D1 middle distance runner, which has helped him go the extra mile for our clients. As he describes himself to his children,
I was a poor middle distance DI runner!
These days Jeff enjoys a round of golf with clients, made better with a frozen Snickers around hole #12. He also enjoys being a sports spectator of many sports but especially the Vikings and the MN Gophers basketball team. Jeff enjoys gaining new clients and tackling complex real estate challenges. He enjoys new relationships and helping people excel in their careers. He especially enjoys commercial real estate because it involves creatively solving tangible problems for clients. Throughout the majority of Jeff’s 28 year career, his focus has been working with end-users typically based in the Midwest. He has worked on every continent for these clients to help them find 500-1,000,000 sq. ft. of space. This includes industrial, office, land and some retail space, for our medical and financial related customers.
On behalf of his clients, he has closed several hundred transactions through the years. For Jeff, the best part is the feeling you receive when a client says “thank you, I could not have solved it without your help!" He enjoys the feeling of sincerely helping our clients do something that would have been difficult for them to achieve on their own.
Besides sports, he enjoys spending time with his wonderful family, serving on professional association and non-profit and community boards and being involved with his local church. He and his wife, Maxine, have two children. Their favorite vacation spot is Hawaii, but they enjoy traveling the world. (Jeff does anyway. For Max, a beach and sunshine is all she needs!) Jeff’s vises are ice cubes and graham crackers and if he could be a super hero he would be Flash Gordon. As a former runner he wishes he could move that fast!
Favorite Commercial Real Estate Success Story:
There are many that I have enjoyed along the way. One of my favorites is representing Ecolab in purchasing the former, approximately 500,000 sq. ft. Cray Research H.Q. in Eagan, MN and then representing Travelers, a number of years later, in selling their 485,000 sq. ft. high-rise St. Paul office building to Ecolab for a new H.Q.. It was a small world kind of thing, separated by at least eleven years.
