To Whom It May Concern, I am a Senior Vice President for a commercial real estate company in the suburban Maryland counties of the Washington, DC area. During a strategy session on one of our listings that had not sold due to a number of circumstances, we came to the conclusion that we needed the support of the local citizens to emphasize the economic vitality of our market place, that's when we called Alpine Web Designs. Our listing consisted of four finished restaurant pad sites situated in a first class business park next to the Washington Beltway. The owners, are a national REIT that has an excellent reputation for these type projects. In spite of their expertise and track record they were unable to sell the remaining restaurant pad sites and had engaged our company. After a year of unsuccessful sales efforts we decided we needed to try and create a web site that would give us a vehicle to communicate our message to both the citizens of our county but to the restaurateurs, who had previously shunned our project. Even though we had no experience in the web, we knew who to turn to, Alpine Web Designs. With their help we created a professional web site that covered the topics I felt were necessary. With Alpine's guidance we added features that made our web site more user friendly and interactive. In fact, we launched the site shortly after Labor Day and within three weeks, we had five restaurant real estate managers visit our site. Pretty impressive when you consider we only had two site visits for the previous year. We have an offer from a major national chain and at least five prospects for the remaining pads sites. Thanks to Alpine Web Designs, we achieved our goals, our client believes we went above and beyond the call of duty and the citizens of our county will have four new restaurants to patronize. Several new clients have contacted me recently to see if we could do the same type of job for them, with the help from Alpine and the follow up care we will expand our portfolio of clients and should do considerably more business in the future. Sincerely, Jeffrey D. Ludwig Senior Vice President NAI The Michael Companies, Inc. 301-918-2923