Many short line railroads don’t have the personnel or expertise to negotiate real estate agreements that protect their interests, limit and their risk, and importantly provide the proper return on value. We can help make their real estate transactions safer, less restrictive on future operations and obtain the appropriate fees for the use and occupation of railroad properties.
Many Class II and even Class I railroads don’t have the staff to manage complex and lengthy real estate transactions such as highway, waterway and other public infrastructure projects.
Strangely, public agencies often won’t increase their offers in relation to the amount of resources that a railroad may need to expend to negotiate and draft a proposal, but they will reimburse for consulting fees. Through the use of service agreements, we can manage these projects at a lower cost to the railroads thus freeing up their staff to manage other more time sensitive work and increasing their net benefit from the transaction. There is an additional benefit in that these projects often take several years to negotiate and implement. I can provide continuity to the projects in scenarios where a railroad’s own staff may be more transient between its departments.