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A weekly design-driven and community-focused newsletter by Sean D. Sweeney, mapping the moves and mindset crucial for both the seasoned and aspiring real estate developer.
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Pro Forma Breakdown from Feasibility to Cash Flow (Masterclass #33) (opens the original)
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There is one cell on the amortization tab of my pro forma that I can change from 30 to 25, and every number below it moves. Most first-time developers build spreadsheets where that doesn’t happen, and they don’t find out until they’ve changed a cost in one place, forgotten to change it in another, and made a decision on a number that was never true.We d… Read more
Deal Structures for First-Time Developers (Masterclass #32) (opens the original)
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By the time you get to your construction loan closing, you may have spent anywhere from $75,000 to a million dollars, and you have not built a single thing yet. Here’s what almost nobody tells first-time developers about that money: on most deals, you get all of it back. And there is one situation where you should walk away from it on purpose.You can st… Read more
Essential Terms in GC Contracts (Masterclass #31) (opens the original)
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There’s a $20,000 line in a lot of construction budgets that looks generous until you start counting every exit sign, every garage sign, and every little arrow pointing you toward the mailroom. Get that number wrong and you don’t find out at signing. You find out later, when the bill shows up and there’s no line item left to pay it from.You’ve read the … Read more
Reviewing and Comparing Multiple General Contractor Bids (Masterclass #30) (opens the original)
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Three contractors bid the same building. One section came back at $895,000, another at $677,000, and the cheapest at $613,000. Then I noticed what the cheap bid was missing, added it back in, and the low bidder was suddenly within shouting distance of the high one. Nothing on the front page of any of those bids tells you that.In the last two lessons I s… Read more
Critical Insights for General Contractor Bids (Masterclass #29) (opens the original)
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A contractor sent me an updated bid one week after the first one. Same building, same plans, same everything—and the number had dropped by $46,085. That change was not a discount, and it was not a mistake. If you don’t know why a line like that moves, you don’t yet know how to read a bid.Bids come in all shapes and sizes. Some are twenty pages of detail… Read more
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