Fully Occupied Scoop: April 2025 Newsletter

Last Updated on May 6, 2025 by Amanda Lee

Dear Lease Lover,

Grab a scoop 🍦—   Your monthly commercial real estate round-up is here.

This month, we’re zeroing in on what drives smarter decision-making for retail and restaurant operators—visibility into sales performance and clarity in your lease obligations. From demystifying percentage rent to streamlining CAM reconciliation, we’re sharing practical insights to help you optimize every dollar spent on your locations. 

If your brick-and-mortar success depends on strong financial intelligence, this one’s for you.

🤝 Occupier Partners with Guesst

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Guesst, the leading retail store revenue intelligence platform, to bring retail and restaurant operators deeper insights into how lease terms and sales performance impact their bottom line.

Together, Occupier and Guesst empower tenants with:
✅ Simplified retail revenue tracking
✅ Improved lease transparency
✅ Enhanced financial reporting

This partnership removes financial guesswork, reduces risk, and delivers a smarter, data-powered way for retail and restaurant brands to manage their brick-and-mortar portfolios.

🕙 Lease Admin Office Hours

Exciting news! We’re launching Occupier Lease Administration Office Hours – a dedicated space to get your questions answered, learn best practices, and optimize your workflow.

🕙 When: Weekly starting Tuesday, May 6th at 2:00 PM ET (Seats are limited – sign up required!)

💡Why Join?
– Optimize your Occupier experience
– Get real-time support from our team
– Learn lease admin best practices

📄 Occupier Now Supports GASB 87

GASB 87 establishes a single model for lease accounting based on the foundational principle that leases finance the right to use an underlying asset. 

Unlike operating and capital leases under older rules, this approach treats most leases as financing arrangements rather than simple operating expenses, improving the comprehensive view of a government’s financial position and commitments.

Check out how lease accounting software can streamline complex GASB 87 calculations, manage remeasurements and modifications, and build a reliable audit trail for financial reporting. 

🎉 Welcome to Our Newest Customers

🌟OCPeep Spotlight

Why do you love working at Occupier?
Because building something hard with a great team is the best feeling in the world. Big goals, tough problems, real wins — that’s what fires me up.

What is your favorite memory at Occupier thus far?
Matt and I showing up to our first ICSC Las Vegas in 2018 without tickets, setting up 30+ meetings in the convention center Starbucks, and crashing on the floor of a friend’s hotel room.  We were in full hustle mode.

What is your favorite thing to do outside of work?
Annual ski trip with my family, coaching my boys in Little League and picking up my daughter from school on Mondays and Fridays.  I’m a relatively simple man.

Favorite movie of all time? 
Can’t say I have a single favorite, but it is the 35th anniversary of one of my childhood go-to’s and cult classic, RAD. It’s what happens when someone watches “Karate Kid” and says, “But what if it was about bmx bikes and had more dance montages?”

Travel destination you would recommend? 
The Dolomites in Italy.  Great skiing, unreal views, and incredible food!

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? 
“Do it now, do it right f$@king now!”

🎙️Latest on the Fully Occupied Podcast

Jay Norris, founder of Guesst shares his journey from the music business to commercial real estate and how he spotted a shift in tenant needs. This leads him to create a solution for flexible, performance-based leasing.

📝 Latest on the Occupier Blog

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