SWOT Analysis of Florostone Real Estate Management

Aflac is a company that its main business is into health and life insurance that cover special conditions, particularly cancer.

In 1954, Gene Fischer and Arnold Rosen created a new home building company names F&R Builders in Miami, Florida. Over the next 17 years, the company grew until it rebranded and renamed itself into Lennar Corporation and became a public company. Slowly, the company grew and expanded from builders to mortgage financers and real estate

For this assignment, I selected a property located in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Built in 1996, this one-story building is used for commercial purposes for a rental and cleaning company, and it combines the functions of an office and a storage-warehouse. The types of office activities carried out in the building include organizing and scheduling deliveries and pickups, preparing reports, ordering supplies, answering the phones and communication with customers. The storage-warehouse operations include organizing the cleaning supplies and rental products and

Shorewest’s private and family owned status was an important factor, based on the assumption it would provide a better culture and more opportunities, unfortunately, when conducting a financial analysis of the company based on common measurement criteria, privately owned has drawbacks. Shorewest is not required to generate or share publicly, annual reports, normally where financial and market data is typically available. Without easily assessible financial data, it is hard to measure profitability, however, the data available does demonstrate a track record of home sales and agent recruiting. Growth and resiliency appear to be a strong competency, the company survived the housing crash with diversified service offerings in their mortgage, title and insurance divisions. Creation of their home services division in 2011, designed to coordinate moving and utility transfer activities, shows courage and innovation. This service was discontinued in August, which also demonstrates sound measurement and financial decision making, many companies are slow to cut the cord when a product or service is not performing to plan. Even without specific financial data, there is solid evidence to support adequate financial efficacy and long-range planning.

The next property presented to John and Judy was Ivy Terrace, an 80-unit apartment under construction in Arlington, Virginia. Even though this property has the lowest Net Present Value ($619) and lowest monthly mortgage ($5,500), there exist the greatest increase in Cap Rate from purchase to sale price (9.12% to 9.51%). Based on calculations, 72% of total benefits will be derived from cash flow while 41% of total benefits will come via future value. This property has the second highest After Tax Cash Flow (ATCF) but has the lowest remaining loan balance at sale ($4583.03), net cash from sale ($4868.34), net book value ($5545.45), and capital gains. Ivy Terrace has the highest depreciation and has the lowest percent of total benefit from future value and lowest amortization and reserve among the four properties. Finally, the developer of Ivy Terrace guarantees 93% occupancy.

Question 2. 2. (TCO A) Which of the following is a contributing factor to the inefficiency of real estate markets? (Points : 5)

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Superior Lawn Inc. is a lawn care service company that is located in Johnston, Rhode Island. Superior Lawn Inc. was founded in the year 1994. This lawn care service company specializes in design/build, landscape services, maintenance, and turf services. Superior Lawn Inc. furnishes residential and commercial lawn maintenance services. Superior Lawn Inc. conducts design/build for landscape construction and hardscape construction. Their landscape services include hydroseed, flowers, bulbs and containers, and mulch. The weekly lawn maintenance services they carry out include mowing and trimming lawn areas, collect grass clippings and remove from property, weed / plant beds, and blow of walkways, driveways patios, etc. Quality keeps them a cut

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In 1974, there were an even number of REITs between three types 12 equity, 12 Mortgage and 10 Hybrid; however, in 2006, the number of equity REITs increased to significant number (138) while there were 38 Mortgage REITs. On the other hand, the number of Hybrid REITs had reduced to only 7. Due to the recent financial crisis, the number of REITs in 2008 reduced to a total of 136 with 113 of them are Equity, 20 are Mortgage and only 3 Hybrid. As of 2014, due to the recovery of the US economy, the number of REIT increased to 216. Among those, 177 are Equity REITs, 39 are Mortgage while there are no Hybrid REITs.

PAC Resources, Inc. is a small manufacturing company that specializes in high-quality specialized components for computers. Recently the company has faced a number of issues involving depleting sales, employee unrest, poor management and employee relations, and a lack of HR support. Currently, there are several pending decisions to be solved involving the organization and the HR department, human resource development, safety and security, staffing, compensation and benefits, and employee relations. Ultimately, to resolve these problems the solutions will take account of a SWOT analysis of the company along with multiple sources, potential alternatives, and dissenting opinions as a guide to the best

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The Bargaining Power of Customers: this differs on the variety of deal the client needs. While swapping costs continue high, the propagation of cloud technology recovers the mobility of customers, particularly for small business, general bookkeeping and tax services. Conversely, converting costs in specialist areas and corporate clients stay high, and are showing no signs of reduction any time soon.

As mentioned earlier in Chapter 1, China Lodging Group is a multi-brand hotel group which as per now manages seven hotels with each having a specific target of customers. These Hotels are Hi Inn, Han Ting Hotel, Elan Hotel, Star-way Hotel, JI Hotel, Manxin Hotel, and Joya Hotel. Its mission statement is to create great brands of hotels that guests love. The group predicts to be owning over a quarter of the hotel market share in the next five years to come. The two major objectives that the company has set for the next five years to ensure that they attain their goal is to build one large five-star hotel in the heart of China Capital’s serene outskirts and to ensure that they hire enough

SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (Ferrell and Hartline, 2014, p. 39). A SWOT analysis evaluates both the internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats) that create advantages and disadvantages to a company when serving its customers (p. 39). A SWOT analysis is extremely beneficial in helping a company determine areas of improvement (p. 39). Internal factors examine the actual company being analyzed while external factors examine the external market (customers and competition) (p. 85).