Using a green restaurant strategy to increase the value of your business and get a higher price if you are planning to eventually sell it is like adding more rooms to a home to accommodate larger families. The bigger the family means the bigger the home needed and the higher a price someone will expend for it. Greening your restaurant is like adding rooms. This value - like those rooms - is more customer appeal, greater cost savings and added profits to the bottom line.

After writing about mixed messages that investors received on the lodging industry recently, hotel special servicers may be in store for more troubled loan workouts and defaults as well. Lenders and senior business executives do not seem very optimistic this last quarter based on two recent news reports.