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Great News: A Positive Lease Renewal with CBRE: Wynona, Oklahoma, Post Office By Kathie Westrope

Our Wynona, Oklahoma, post office lease renewal date was October 31, 2013. The post office was part of the POStPlan and in February the hours had been reduced to four hours per day, therefore, we had our concerns about how the renewal of the lease would go and we were very unsure of what to expect from the CBRE representatives. Would we need to contact them or would they contact us? Would we have to struggle to get the lease renegotiated? If we didn’t hear from them by the end of July we made a decision to contact them; however, by the middle of July CBRE had started communication with us.

We want to stress that it was a positive experience from our first contact with the CBRE representative until the lease was fully executed and returned to us. We were in contact with two CBRE representatives, Bob Pielsticker in Oklahoma City, and Alex Van Roon in Denver, Colorado. The negotiations were done with Bob and the actual drawing up of the lease documents was done with Alex. We were offered a lease rate increase, and while they wanted a commission, their commission was put on top of the increase. We had several lease terms that needed to be negotiated; however, we feel that the final decisions were both fair and reasonable. The lease renewal process was a give and take. At all times, both gentlemen were very responsive to us.

We were very apprehensive as to how the lease renewal was going to proceed, but we cannot stress enough what a very positive experience it was. Bob and Alex were extremely professional and reasonable.

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November, 2013 www.auspl.com