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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Real Estate |
| Occupation | Broker/Investor |
| Location | Bloomington, MN, United States |
| Introduction | Michael Houge-Managing Director NAI Legacy CCIM, SIOR Michael has over 30 years of experience in project leasing and investment sales. Houge specializes in selling net-leased investment properties, 1031 tax deferred exchanges, and, more recently, commercial real estate in the North Dakota Bakken oilfield markets. Mr. Houge has completed over a billion dollars in investment property transactions. Michael has also leased well over a million square feet as a landlord and tenant representative and is a frequent contributor and author in various real estate trade publications and frequently speaks on panels and conferences on investment sales, capital markets, marketing, the net-leased industry, 1031 tax deferred exchanges, and North Dakota real estate. Education BA, College of Liberal Arts-University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus CCIM Curriculum Professional Associations & Designations CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office REALTORs) |
| Interests | Reading, hockey, golf, baseball, youth sports, music, cigars, hunting, ATVs, politics, Mac computers, iPhones and technology, photography, geocaching, yoga, sports memorabilia and traveling. |
| Favorite Movies | Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, The Last Samurai, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, Unforgiven, The Godfather Part I and II, Fight Club, Saving Private Ryan, Taxi Driver, L.A. Confidential, Shindler's List, Reservoir Dogs, Once Upon a Time in America, Strangers on a Train, The Sting, Blade Runner, Die Hard, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Shining, The Birds, Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws, Gladiator, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Trainspotting, Scarface, The Terminator, Blood Simple, Apartment Zero, Fargo, Deer Hunter, Snatch, Bourne Ultimatum, Once Upon a Time in the West, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Patriot, Braveheart, Wall Street, Goodfellas, and |
| Favorite Music | Rolling Stones, Ted Nugent, English Beat, The Clash, AC-DC, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Beck, Bob Marley, Buena Vista Social Club, The Cure, David Bowie, Earth Wind and Fire, ELO, Eminem, Fleetwood Mac, Iggy Pop, Los Lobos, New Order, Neil Young, OMD, The Police, The Replacements, Sly and the Family Stone, Smashing Pumpkins, Steve Miller, The Stone Roses, Suburbs, Talking Heads, Tom Petty, Tom Tom Club, UB40, and Weezer. |
| Favorite Books | 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Shibumi, The Catcher in the Rye, Liberty and Tyranny, Coma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catch-22, The Illiad and The Odyssey, The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Slaughterhouse-Five, Animal Farm, In Cold Blood, Portnoy's Complaint |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
In my yard.