Real Estate Developer's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Real Estate Development?with Companion CD-ROM

by Tanya Logan

Are you the Next Donald Trump? Successful real estate developers can become enormously wealthy. However, the flip side is many developers run out of cash before cashing in. Poor cash flow is the primary cause of business failure for real estate developers. This new book details how to become a successful real estate developer and demonstrates step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful real estate development enterprise. The author has explored every avenue in explaining this potentially rewarding yet risky business. The book covers the entire process of establishing a small real estate development firm and the ongoing management necessary in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid the many common mistakes that can doom a start-up. The book focuses on small developments that you can start by yourself featuring both residential and commercial applications. Once the basic skills are learned, the book points out areas of expansion by leveraging your first investment. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding your first location that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan, installing basic cost control systems, assembling your team of experts, generating high profile public relations and publicity, learning low cost marketing ideas and low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales, setting up accounting and bookkeeping procedures, and auditing. There are thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. You will learn the development process, governmental issues, environmental issues, demographics and trends, market research, site selection, feasibility analysis, due diligence, preliminary pro forma, property acquisition, project design/refined pro forma, entitlements, financing/final pro forma, construction, operation, feasibility studies, financing, market analysis, construction, and asset management. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format.

288 pages, ebook

First published January 12, 2007

About the author

Tanya Logan has been a writer since the third grade when she typed out a story on a typewriter and assembled it with yarn.
Her recent book, Hearing God, came about because she met so many people who yearn to hear from God, but don't. They believe they can't, or they simply don't know what to do. The book and matching video series help all God followers, from the very beginner to the serious scholar.
Before writing her own books, Tanya ghost wrote 11 books, two of which were best sellers in their genre. She was also a news columnist and freelance writer.
An avid bird lover, Tanya has recently started a series of pet bird guides, The Birdology Series. Her goal is to assist owners in raising happier, healthier pet birds.
Tanya and her husband Mickey spend their time with their pets and gardening at their SW Florida home.

Reviews

[Paul Forste · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am into a development process and this handbook will be a companion throughout.