RichVintage This article was coproduced with Leo Nelissen. As many of my readers know, I was once a commercial real estate developer, in which I learned how to construct and lease properties from the ground up. I started my career just out of college, first as a leasing agent, and then I became a full-fledged shopping center building stores for a variety of retail chains such as Advance Auto Parts (AAP), PetSmart, Walmart (WMT), and Sherwin-Williams (SHW). The great thing about my career as a developer is t ...