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Two years ago, I bought the first edition of your e-book, Real Estate Development Made Easy. I can honestly say that this book has been life-changing for myself and my two partners.
None of us had any real estate development experience prior to reading your book, but with it as our guide, we were able to bring a 20-unit residential subdivision to completion, making a tidy profit in the end.
We used your book as a step-by-step guide, and it served us with the complete security of knowing that we were following the guidance of an experienced mentor. From timelines, to marketing advice, to templates for finance submission, the book was spot-on.
Without your book, we would not have been able to do this project, period. With the knowledge, experience, and profit, gained from this first project, we now have two more projects under development, with a total value of $30 million, and have another $60 million in projects in the planning stage.
We are now a recognized and established player in our local development community-- after just two years!
Thank you, Colm, for writing this book. I still refer to it. I could not imagine getting started in real estate development without it and naturally I have bought your new Commercial Real Estate Development Made Easy Course.
Al Henry
President
Icon Development, LLC
www.icondevelopment.net
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Can I Talk To You For A Moment?
Hello Colm Dillon here ...
Let me explain. There is a little-known, but safe and proven real estate development strategy that enables you to get into this business without the pain and frankly the waste of your money and valuable time.
This real estate development strategy beats anything you will find out from "street experience" through the school of hard knocks; a very expensive school; some say it's the most expensive in the country.
This strategy has existed for about 60 years, but the public and even most existing developers, financiers, bankers, architects or engineers — know nothing about it.
And the reason is so simple it is almost laughable, if it were not so sad.
Nobody bothered to write it down or I should say none of the top professional developers bothered to write it down until I did.
You see by the time you get to know this successful real estate development strategy, you spend the rest of your life using it to make money.
I mean most developers do not see themselves as "teachers."
They're action people; they've got developments to create and money to make, so that's how we get to the situation where the "engine room" of the world wide construction industry - the development industry has no instruction books to pass on their knowledge and skills until now.
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Colm DillonA successful developer with over a Billion dollars worth of residential, commercial and land developments completed - took on the massive task of writing three e-books on "specific How To" instructions for "the Right Way the First Time."
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So if you are really interested in learning real estate development, this page will answer a lot of questions or issues, so spend a bit of time reading this page. It is an Information Page NOT a Sales Page; OK?
Residential, Commercial and Land Subdivision development follow the same process and procedures throughout the entire private enterprise world and that is why I have successfully taught people to develop correctly in:
1. Every State of the USA.
2. Every Province of Canada.
3. Every State of Australia & New Zealand.
4. Every County of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
5. Many parts of South Africa and the African Continent.
6. Many parts of Asia.
In fact, in a total of 106 countries.
The reason I am telling you this is to emphasize the fact that the development procedure is the same the world over.
I get asked, "But Will It Work Where I Live
From a development point of view the things that separate where you and I live is our local Council or City Hall Planning & Building Department. These rules and regulations are prepared for local conditions ... that's all!
Here's An Example
Ask yourself if it is reasonable to have a different building regulation for a building being constructed in a tropical climate, the extreme cold of Canada or the temporate climate of Ireland?
Clearly the answer is yes.
However, the development process and procedures, of putting a building in place in each of those locations is the same. The building regulations in one location will be more concerned in retaining 'heat'inside the building in a cold climate and keeping it out in a tropical climate.
The same applies to Town Planning ... each city has its own unique Town Plan, which sets out its own development regulations. Yet how we as developers operate within the town plan is the same. So I hope that answers the question I am asked ... "but will your Course work where I live?"
My Three E-Courses
* Residential Real Estate Development Made Easy Edition 2.
My first E-Course, Residential Real Estate Development Made Easy was published in 2003 and takes students from A to Z in the entire development procedure and has educated developers in 106 countries.
My Second Edition is vastly expanded as a result of listening to students. The second edition e-book contains detailed explanation and instruction on the entire development procedure.
* Commercial Real Estate Development Made Easy Edition 1.
The Commercial Course is totally new and for it only I have recorded some physical CD's that cover the entire course in order to see if the CD presentation is popular with you.
So why make the CD's? For three reasons really. The first being that some people learn better by listening and the second is that I thought they would be a re-inforcing tool ... a way of comverting car travelling time to learning time. There are 14 CD's in the series containing approximately 16 hours of teaching and third to see if they proved popular with students.
* Land Subdivision Development Made Easy Edition 1.
To complete my trilogy I have also written a Land Subdivision Development Course.
It is the A to Z on land subdivision and going by the initial buying response there was certainly a big need for it.
Like the other courses this one takes you from the market research stage all the way through to the completion of a 19 lot subdivision. And like my other courses, this kind of teaching has never been made available before anywhere in the world.
A Few Important Points
I need to be clear on a number of things and some straight talking is my preferred style.
I have developed over $1.2 Billion worth of real estate developments. On this page I'll display some pictures as part of my development background, so here's the first International Hotel in Brisbane; The Sheraton & Towers.
So what am I saying?
It would be inaccurate to assume I only talk about multi million dollar developments; that would be far off the mark.
I started off on small residential or commercial developments that are well within your capacity and from that point your experience grows so you take on larger developments.
I'm saying that I want to show people how to develop residential and commercial development for their own personal profit and achieve a level of personal independence that lets one achieve many things that one desires.
Can I tell you that you don't have to be an Einstein to learn this business, but you do have to apply yourself.
First to the learning process ... then the market research process so you know the market in which you will operate and then ... and only then to the "Doing It" part.
If you do that, you will really achieve something wonderful for yourself and your family.
I'm a developer whose created, completed and sold over $1.2 Billion worth of real developments, so my teaching material is all about "what you actually do" in this business and how real developers do it.
So you don't get pages and pages theory from me in my Real Estate Development Courses ... all you get are the exact details of what to do and how to do it!
Do you want to leave your footprint on this earth ... here's another one of mine. I named it The Grosvenor and it's at beach front Surfers Paradise on Australia's beautiful Gold Coast.
How is the Course Presented to you and Why.
I have broken up my course into a logical sequence that follow the "flow" of the development process and I have done so because when I started teaching 4 years ago I wanted people to 'study it' - not just 'read it.'
So I have broken up my Real Estate Development Courses into logical "chunk" of information to give you the best opportunity to absorb it just like the development process flows ... so I don't jump all over the place; it is all set out in a logical manner.
Remember, I am the only real developer who teaches this stuff in the world, so if you really want to learn, I'll teach you!
As I said earlier, the reason I can teach you how to do residential or commercial real estate development is because I have completed over $1,200,000,000 million worth - that's over 1,000 condos, townhouses, office buildings, industrial buildings, subdivisions and an international hotel.
The reason you can learn how to do residential or commercial real estate development is because I am the only real developer who has ever written teaching materail that sets out the complete A to Z of "How To" actually do development.
I want you to understand that the majority of developers in the world got to learn at the "School of Hard Knocks." And if you know anything about that school, you'll know it's a very expensive and non-exclusive school!
So when you complete my course you'll never have to ask that question, "what do I do next." That fact alone puts you way ahead of the game.
Since 2003 I have taught several thousand individuals in 106 countries how to become successful "real estate developers."
I teach you how to become a developer and do it 'yourself.' That means you're in charge of your life and business.
Why Are There No Other Courses By Real Developers?
These are the type of questions I've been asked.
Because the people 'who know' how to do residential or commercial real estate development, are too busy making money. They prefer to leave buildings behind them and not instruction courses ... besides, many think, "I learned the hard way; you can as well!"
So I teach residential or commercial real estate development because I'm retired from active and I sincerely want to pass on my skills to others and allow you to be successful; provided you want to learn how to develop a commercial office building like North Point Brisbane:
Anyway, that's my explanation and reasoning behind why I do what I do and have the only web site that provides training material, so hopefully we don't have to talk about that any more; OK?
What I teach you is not difficult ... I assure you. But you do have to do some work. I make no apologies for speaking frankly like this.
After all you'll be learning how to become very wealthy while minimizing all the risks in the business. I even show you how to pay yourself a salary during the development period.
So the purpose of this web site is to tell you what is involved in learning to become a residential or commercial real estate developer. I want the following descriptions of the development process to help you decide if this business is for you.
If it is not; that is OK; but at least you'll be making that decision on an informed basis.
The people I know in this business are serious people, who work as hard as you do now ... it is just that they understand the power of max-ing their time for their maximum financial benefit.
My web site is going to describe for you the essential elements that make up the real estate development process. My course takes each of these topics and a few more and expand it in great detail.
Have a look at My Courses Contents ... top left of this page.
Here's a sample of what I am going to teach you:
Real Estate Development Market Research: If you don't know what the market wants to buy from you, how are you going to provide what they want? How do you know what to pay for the land? How do you know what the sales price should be and for what size and quality ... plus lots more? (read more)
Buying Land For Development: Most people who get into this business without any knowledge, start off the process by buying some land. Seems obvious really; but it's the last thing a developer does. From the moment an inexperienced developer buys his/her land, they are in that 'worry' place called, "What Do I Do Next?" (read more)
Preliminary Development Feasibility Study: This is where we 'crunch some numbers' to see if we have a financially viable development proposition on our hands or whether we should drop this particular piece of land and look for another.(read more)
Building Design Consultants: Who are they? What do they do for us? How much do they cost? If I asked you right now to tell me what an architect does, could you tell me? And after you say, design buildings, could you tell me what else they do? You need to know this stuff, or how can you hire one!(read more)
Preliminary Design Plans Drawn: This is just one stage; an important one, as it sets the design layout for all you will construct later. (read more)
Real Estate Development Financing: This is the one area where 100% of my students pull out their "worry beads." Like my previous comments about buying land; you can go down the wrong track by doing what you think is obvious; which is not going to see your local bank manager. So what do most of us do?(read more)
Real Estate Development Feasibility Study: This is where our development cost and sales figures have to be a lot more 'real' but still have a degree of financial flexibility. We go into preparing a cash flow and analyzing or figures. (read more)
Development Approval: In a dynamic world, real developers like to be sure of what they can actually develop on the land. Remember land is only worth what you can do with it.(read more)
Development Finance Application: If you saw what most people do when they apply for finance for a real estate development, you would break down and cry, it is so bad and yet is so easy to do correctly.(read more)
Detailed Construction Design Plans Drawn: I am sure you have picked up from the items I have told you about so far, that we are following a logical process.
Because to get to the point of drawing the construction drawings, our development approval is in our hot little hands and so is our finance. So that means we can get our design consultants working.
Building Costs & Estimates: The correct way of getting a construction cost is really a two stage process. It is quite straight forward, but like so many things in life, there is always the wrong way; we'll talk about that as well.(read more)
Feasibility Study Recalculation: This is an ongoing process throughout the life of our residential or commercial development. Only this time we have a real builder's construction cost and cash flow. (read more)
Let's Get Our Building Started: As the developer, we had better talk about your role in the whole scheme of things. It's important to understand that you are a Manager; not an expert in detail. You are a bit like the conductor of the orchestra and you eventually create something like this little beauty:
Development Marketing Promotion & Selling: We have to be able to tell our immediate world all about our great new residential development, but we have to be able to do it within cost and on time.
Closing Sales: This is pay day and like every other development day, it has to be organised, or more correctly, I should say has to be managed correctly by you.
Now when you look at that neat list of activities I have just given you, I want you to appreciate that many of them are interlocking and cannot be carried out in isolation.
It's a bit like the cogs of a wheel intermeshing and resulting into a movement forward of the development vehicle. Each cog is vital and without it being in place the movement forward would be very jerky indeed.
"Residential Real Estate Development Made Easy" and Commercial Real Estate Development Made Easy are above all ... Practical Ebooks ... not theory; you can go to University for that stuff.
Sorry to be so Blunt ... but it's just got to be said.
You see most people don't realize that real estate development has processes and procedures to be followed ... in fact, in my e-book, I believe for the first time ever, I have created a "Road Map" for you to follow. I call it a road map because the real name is, Development Work Flow Chart and that sounds a bit daunting.
Using the road map analogy, if you want to get your project from A TO Z, you need to know about all the side roads, the a1, a2, a3 etc ... plus b1 to b7 and so on.
However, you also need to know that while you are doing c4 (which takes some time, not yours, someone else’s you've employed to do it) you can get on with f3 and finish off b6.
And that is how you get your real estate development finished at 'Z' on your real estate development 'Time Line'. Does that make sense?
And that is how a big real estate development or a small one is finished on time and on cost.
Forget about the size of the $Dollars ... our goals are the same ... to get your $500,000 project or my $100,000,000 project finished on time and on cost.
Plus your $500,000 is just as important to you, as the $100m is to the professional ... it's the numbers that are different ... that's all.
Author: Colm K Dillon
* Residential Real Estate Development Made Easy Edition 2
* Commercial Real Estate Development Made Easy Edition 1
* Land Subdivision Development Made Easy Edition 2
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