Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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bit like trying to find a site for a new embassy.
You'll never make everybody happy and I'll talk
about that a little bit more.
But I basically manage the group of people
that are involved in the buying and the selling and
the leasing of our real estate overseas. That
includes the site acquisition process for new
embassies, which is probably half my workload over
the recent years. But I'll talk a little bit about
our recent results, some of our challenges, and some
of the new things that we have done to address some
of the issues that have developed over recent years.
But you can imagine that with about 18,000
properties in nearly 300 cities around the world, we
are in every type of real estate market that you can
imagine. We're working with office properties,
residential properties, warehouse properties, mixed
use properties, buying, selling, leasing,
exchanging, you name it, every day. From
sophisticated markets like London to places like
Mexico City or Bujumbura or Dili, the assignment is
usually the same regardless of the environment that
we're working in, that is try to buy or sell or
lease a piece of real estate. Sophisticated markets
to very secretive closed markets, still the
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