Making it in Real Estate: Starting Out as a Developer

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Making It in Real Estate
	1. Quit Your Job?
	2. Doing It on the Side
	3. Playing Small Ball
	4. Specialize or Die
	5. Bromancing the Deal
	6. Size Matters
	7. Buying It Right
	8. Desperately Chasing Yield
	9. Liquid Assets
	10. A Little Help from My Friends
	11. Fickle Shades of Green
	12. Autographing the Deal
	13. The Politics of It All
	14. Decked by City Hall?
	15. Sell versus Hold
	16. Lies, Damn Lies, and the IRR
	17. Working without a Net Worth
	18. Monogamy and Its Downside
	19. Let Us Now Praise Famous Architects
	20. General Contractor Relativity
	21. Sex, Lies, and Off-Market Deals
	22. Do As I Say
	23. The Back of a Napkin
	24. No Partners, No Problems
	25. The “NTM”
	26. Understating Your Net Worth
	27. Leaseholds: Buy ’Em Where They Ain’t
	28. Your Empire: Build It or Buy It?
	29. The 1031 Exchange: Panacea or Placebo?
	30. The Only Free Cheese Is in a Mouse Trap
	31. Game of Phones
	32. Winter Is Coming
	33. Winter Is Here
	34. There’s No Place Like Home
	35. Investing in Accidental Assets
	36. Retail’s Wholesale Risks
	37. Environmental Contamination: Hazardous to Your Health?
	38. A Sod Roof Too Far
	39. Money
	40. Abandon All Hope
Part 2: Making It in Life
	41. How to Keep Friends and Influence No One
	42. Commencement Address
	43. Your Obituary
	44. Seeing the Forest for the Trees
	45. In Memoriam: James J. Curtis III
	46. Postscript
Glossary: Real Estate Jargon Demystified