07/15/2026
This is a Linkedin Repost from Kristin Geenty:
If you are interested in lease ops, check out the LinkedIn article here. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lease-negotiated-once-operations-every-day-lessons-from-geenty-sior-dknfc/
The TLDR is below -
Today was supposed to be the day I joined the GlobeSt. Women of Influence panel on "Lease Operations: The Backbone of CRE." Instead, I'm flat on my back.
Apparently, the speaker on "the backbone of commercial real estate" couldn't keep her own backbone in working order. The irony is not lost.
I was genuinely looking forward to sharing the stage with Marissa Limsiaco, Skylar Jones of Kimco Realty, and KARLY IACONO to discuss a topic that I believe doesn't get nearly enough attention: what happens after the lease is signed.
Most people think lease operations are administrative. They might be for corporate owners but for closely held self managed portfolios, lease ops are life.
Nearly every lease operation issue can be traced back to five questions:
• Responsibility: Who does it?
• Cost: Who pays?
• Performance: Was it actually done?
• Document Compliance: Can it be proven?
• Timing: When should it happen?
When any one of those breaks down, negotiated intent and day-to-day ex*****on drift.
Since I couldn't be there today, I decided to publish the article I would have spoken from instead. It includes a few true stories from owner-managed commercial properties that illustrate exactly where this framework comes into play, from landlord work that wasn't verified before tenant occupancy, to recurring CAM (Net Charge) disputes that continue despite carefully drafted leases.
A lease is negotiated once. Operations occur every day. In my experience, that's where value is either preserved—or quietly lost.
Thoughts? Critique? AMA.
Commercial real estate professionals spend enormous energy negotiating leases. Far less attention is given to what happens after the ink dries.
