r/CommercialRealEstate rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for investors, operators, and professionals who work in commercial real estate. The description covers office, retail, industrial, multifamily of five or more units, hospitality, land, and special purpose assets. People talk about acquisition, development, leasing, operations, and market trends. The rules make clear what it is not. It is not a place for job hunting or questions about breaking into the industry. It is not a place for single-family rentals, house hacks, or duplexes, which belong in r/realestateinvesting. And it is not a place for promoting your business in any form.

The rule that decides everything for a founder is “No Self-Promotion or Advertising”. It bans promoting your business, services, website, podcast, social media, or any other form of solicitation, and it warns that violations may lead to a permanent ban. That is as strict as promotion rules get. “No Newbie career advice” matters if you were thinking of asking how to break into the industry, because that is off topic here. “I have $_____, what should I buy?” removes low-effort money questions unless you provide context, goals, asset type, market, and strategy. “Commercial Real Estate Only (5+ Units)” keeps single-family rentals, house hacks, and duplexes out and sends them to r/realestateinvesting. Finally, “Post Quality” requires posts to be focused, specific, and relevant, with a minimum of 50 characters in the body.

A good post here is a specific question or observation about a commercial asset. If you are asking for advice on a deal, the rules tell you exactly what to include: context, goals, asset type, market, and strategy. So a post about underwriting a specific office property in a named market, with your numbers and your reasoning, fits the room. A post about leasing, operations, or market trends works the same way, as long as it is focused and specific. If you build a product for this industry, you can talk about the problems you see, but the post has to stand on its own as a commercial real estate discussion, with no link, no pitch, and no mention of your company.

The fastest way out is self-promotion. The rule covers promoting your business, services, website, podcast, social media, or any other form of solicitation, and it says violations will result in removal and may lead to a permanent ban. Career advice posts get removed, so leave job questions for career-oriented subs. Vague posts asking what to do with a sum of money get routinely removed unless you provide context, goals, asset type, market, and strategy. Questions about single-family rentals, house hacks, or duplexes belong in r/realestateinvesting, not here. Low-effort or off-topic posts get removed, and your post body needs at least 50 characters to survive the quality bar.

The “I have $_____, what should I buy?” rule is my favorite bit of evidence here, because it tells you the community has already grown tired of lazy questions and wrote the cure into the rules. If you bring a real deal with a real market and a real strategy, you are instantly more interesting than most posts they see. And with no observed top posts to learn from, I would treat this room as one where your first post has to earn trust on its own.