{"id":7061,"date":"2019-03-14T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leeassociatesnyc.com\/?post_type=post&amp;p=7061"},"modified":"2019-03-14T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:58:46","slug":"day-in-the-life-of-james-wacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee-associates.com\/new-york\/2019\/03\/14\/day-in-the-life-of-james-wacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Day in the life of: James Wacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">T<\/span>hirty years ago, James Wacht was a young real estate attorney whose clients included a rough-around-the-edges property management firm named Sierra Realty Corp. \u201cThey were your typical old-school real estate guys. Yellers and screamers, table pounders,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I got along with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newly married and looking to start a family, Wacht decided to leave the legal business, and he joined Sierra in 1989. Today, the 63-year-old is president of the commercial brokerage Lee &amp; Associates NYC \u2014 part of a national network that Sierra\u2019s office and retail leasing business merged with in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/issues_articles\/day-in-the-life-of-lee-associates-james-wacht\/\">Click here to read the full feature from The Real Deal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, James Wacht was a young real estate attorney whose clients included a rough-around-the-edges property management firm named Sierra Realty Corp. \u201cThey were your typical old-school real estate guys. Yellers and screamers, table pounders,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I got along with them.\u201d Newly married and looking to start a family, Wacht decided to leave the legal business, and he joined Sierra in 1989. 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