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Your warehouse space is more than just a place for you to store inventory, raw materials, file overflow or equipment. It's an important part of your logistics, operations or record-keeping functions, so you want to make sure that the space you choose is right for your business needs. Your tour of the space is your chance to see for yourself whether or not a particular warehouse location is ideal for your company. Follow these tips to make sure that you make the most of it:

The way your company approaches real estate is an excellent way to also approach your technology portfolio. Odds are that when it comes to real estate, you rent most if not all of what you occupy and, if you own real estate, it is because that property really fits your needs and you are sure that you want to make a long-term commitment to it.

While drones -- also known as unmanned aircraft systems or UAS-- are already revolutionizing the way that the commercial real estate brokerage world markets properties, their benefits extend to tenants and users as well. The ability to get a view of your property and its surroundings from above enables you to manage, maintain and optimize your portfolio in new and exciting ways.

In this final installment of our series on the office space questions you should ask, we turn to the physical space itself. While some of these questions might seem a bit redundant, the idea is to attempt to combine the real-world information that you have gleaned from talking with your team with a more theoretical view gained from thinking about the space from your perspective as an expert (or from the perspective of the experts you are dealing with). Combining what your field people tell you they want with what an expert would see and recommend will arm you with the best possible strategy as you move into locating and negotiating your new office space. 

Whether you're launching a start-up, opening an office in a new geographic area or relocating, it can be difficult to know how to begin comparing available office spaces. Considering the following elements of spaces that you tour can help to make the decision a little easier:

Whether you're a startup getting ready to lease office space for the first time or ready to branch out and lease a second location to expand your business, you want to make sure you get the best deal and the right space for your needs. Following these tips will help you accomplish your goals and make sure that the outcome of your new lease is the best it can be for your company:

In a previous installment of this series, we identified five questions pertaining to your existing workforce that you should carefully study before embarking on a project to lease or purchase new office space. In addition to looking at your employees, it's also important to look at your company's relationship to technology since how you use it can have a significant impact on the type and configuration of your space.

A commercial lease can be an intimidating document, especially for those who don't work with real estate on a regular basis. Reading your entire lease carefully is vital to ensuring that you're getting the best deal when you're renting commercial office space; however, some terms and clauses are of particular importance and should be considered with the utmost of care. These include: