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Jeff Landers has been in the commercial real estate business for over three decades. He is the founder and president of the innovative office space search engine, Offices2Share.com, now celebrating its seventh year successfully helping start-ups and home-based businesses make the leap from home office to "real" office.

As the pioneer of the nation's first and oldest Internet database for shared office space, he has helped thousands of businesses find office space in cities throughout the U.S. His site focuses exclusively on short-term, ready-to-use office space. This type of space is ideally suited for start-ups, small businesses, consultants/professionals, and any other businesses that want to avoid the upfront costs and long lease terms that are typically required when renting "traditional" office space.

Before forming his Web-based business, Jeff directed his own traditional real estate firm, Landers Commercial Real Estate, Inc., from 1989-1998 specializing in helping Japanese companies set-up shop in the U.S.

Prior to this, Jeff worked for Marine Midland Bank, where he expanded the office locations for the bank's $3.5 billion credit subsidiary and before that as a commercial real estate broker with Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate (now CB Richard Ellis). In the early 1980s, Jeff was the Director of Office Leasing for Merrill Lynch where he oversaw the site selection, financial analysis, lease negotiation, design, and construction of Merrill's offices and retail locations throughout the United States.

In total, Jeff has successfully negotiated more than 900 lease contracts totaling over six million square feet of office space throughout the United States. He has taught himself Japanese, run several marathons, and invented and patented an exercise machine. He began attending Columbia University at age 15. He also studied law at Pace University School of Law.

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