About the Author

Ralph L. Block has been a participant in the REIT industry in various professional investment and advisory capacities since 1993, and has been investing in REIT stocks since the early 1970s. Until his semiretirement in 2005, he was a principal and senior REIT portfolio manager for Phocas Financial Corporation, a registered investment advisory firm, and is presently the owner and proprietor of Essential REIT Publishing Company, an independent advisor to, and publisher of information for, the REIT industry and its investors. From 1993 through August 2003, he was chief REIT portfolio manager with Bay Isle Financial LLC, a San Francisco, California, investment advisory firm. From 1998 through 2003, Ralph was co–portfolio manager, ...

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