The
NRTA is proud to announce that it has partnered with
Boston University’s Center for Professional Education to
expand its commercial real estate certificate offerings
to include lease administration classes. Ruth
Ann Murray, Director of the university’s Center
for Professional Education said the first of several new
courses dealing with commercial lease management topics,
Methods and Techniques of Commercial Lease
Abstracting, will be introduced starting this
spring.
Rick
Burke,
President/Owner, Lease Administration Solutions, LLC of
Marblehead, Massachusetts will teach the inaugural lease
administration course. Rick is a founding member of the
NRTA, and a member of the NRTA Curriculum Committee.
His company specializes in lease administration related
services for both tenants and landlords and provides
services such as lease abstracting, lease
administration, lease auditing, and lease systems
implementation.
With additional lease administration classes planned for
the BU certificate program in September 2007—covering
commercial lease administration fundamentals—NRTA
Executive Director, Paul Kinney, is
hopeful that thecooperative program
between his organization and BU will ultimately result
in web-based certification program accessible to
commercial lease professionals
nationwide. Both NRTA and BU are confident that
the lease administration courses will have significant
appeal to a wide spectrum of commercial real estate
career disciplines.
BU’s programs in commercial real estate are well known
throughout the greater Boston community. It offers
current and would-be commercial real estate
professionals the opportunity to gain or increase their
knowledge of industry fundamentals such as building
systems, real estate transactions, accounting, taxation,
and Argus cash flow modeling.
Visit the link below for BU registration information on
the first course offering, Methods and Techniques of
Commercial Lease Abstracting.