Kyle Zaylor, Author at The BiggerPockets Blog

Archive of Kyle Zaylor

Kyle is the creator of realestate-java.com, a blog dedicated to commercial real estate development. Kyle is also a real estate development consultant with Development Strategies, Inc. His company focuses on providing advisory services to real estate developers, lenders, and investors.

Kyle has written 17 articles for The BiggerPockets Blog.

Real Estate

9 Tips for Selecting an Architect for Your Next Project

by Kyle Zaylor June 1, 2013

Ask ten architects to design a project and you’ll get ten completely different designs. These designs (and their budgets and construction limitations) could make your project a resounding success or could make it something less than successful. Architecture, by the nature of the business, is a service-based profession. Architects provide design services and typically bundle [...]

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Real Estate

Don’t Break this Cardinal Rule of Development

by Kyle Zaylor May 18, 2013

We’re supposed to love what we do. “Follow your passion,” they say! Passion and love for the craft are what drives us in whatever we pursue. If you’re on this site, it’s a no-brainer to say you’ve got some love for real estate. Yet this passion, when misaligned with our fundamentals and intuition, can take us [...]

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Real Estate

How to Break the Ice at a Networking Event

by Kyle Zaylor May 11, 2013

Networking! How many times do you hear experts proclaim the amazing benefits of networking? Want to rapidly expand your business horizons…network. Want to jump into a new and exciting opportunity…network. Looking to build a group of trusted advisors and professional friends…network. In a general sense, it’s great advice! Just network. We are heavily people-focused as [...]

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Real Estate Development

More Dirt Please–Purchasing Land For a Real Estate Development

by Kyle Zaylor May 4, 2013

Dirt, mud, rocks, soil, and grit–it all has a ton of value to your real estate development project! Whether you are working with a single parcel or developing a massive master-planned project, land is often the very first thing you will invest in when developing any new property. After all, our buildings have to sit [...]

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Real Estate

Quality Control – Five Ways to Inject a QC Plan into Your Real Estate Development Analysis

by Kyle Zaylor April 27, 2013

I had a tremendous chat earlier this week with fellow BiggerPockets member Frank Gallinelli (also the guest of Episode 004 of the BiggerPockets podcast). Frank and I were following up on an earlier discussion about the importance of thorough and proper due diligence for real estate development projects and property acquisitions. It’s a topic I’m [...]

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Real Estate Development

Setting Up a New Construction Development Pro Forma – Put in Time Up Front to Save Time Later On

by Kyle Zaylor April 20, 2013

New construction development projects (large ones, small ones, infill projects)—they all start with a pro forma. Pro forma financial models are essential tools in a real estate developer’s toolbox. If you’re thinking about building any new construction project or acquisition/rehab—be it anything from a single-tenant industrial property to a 100-acre master planned mixed-use community—building your [...]

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Real Estate

A Quick Story About Improving Deal Analysis from Weeks to Minutes

by Kyle Zaylor April 13, 2013

I just finished reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. It’s a fantastic book that I recommend to anyone. And I really do mean anyone. You can be a Fortune 500 CEO or a young 20-something living in your parents’ basement and still get tremendous value out of this book. Don’t worry. I’m not writing a [...]

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Real Estate

Starting a Development Pro Forma – Where to Begin

by Kyle Zaylor April 6, 2013

I wrote about the three essential elements of any real estate development pro forma last week (assumptions, cash flow, and financial returns). Development pro formas can often be messy, confusing, and increasingly complex with time. So this three-piece framework is one I use to keep the chaos from getting out of hand. Are pro forma [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Three Basic Elements of any Development Pro Forma

by Kyle Zaylor March 30, 2013

Creating pro formas for real estate developments, acquisitions, and dispositions can be a tedious endeavor! There are so many factors to consider when analyzing a development project. In no time, several “back of the envelope” calculations can quickly turn into a jumbled mess of spreadsheet tabs, projections, convoluted formulas, and—worst of all—sleepless nights. However, wading [...]

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Real Estate

Analyze More Real Estate Deals with the Help of this Easy Technique

by Kyle Zaylor March 23, 2013

I’m going to make a not-so-bold assumption. Ready?! Here it goes: You’re a very busy person. I make this assumption because the nature of our business requires us to constantly be on our toes, continuously change direction, and know the intimate details of our projects and deals. Don’t worry, I’m not lamenting over this. It’s [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Five Reasons Why Competition is a Bad Thing

by Kyle Zaylor March 16, 2013

Several weeks ago I wrote about why competition is a GREAT thing because it can have many positive influences on your business. While I’m generally a firm believer that competition from other real estate professionals brings out more positive actions in one’s business than bad, I want to discuss the negative side of this equation [...]

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Real Estate

The Perfect Path to Developing Real Estate

by Kyle Zaylor March 9, 2013

Many real estate professionals want to develop their own properties at some point in their career. So what is the perfect path to developing real estate? I’ve gotten this question a lot lately. It’s one that I’ve run past mentors of mine and one I continue to tease out myself. If you’re looking for a quick [...]

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Real Estate

Seven Reasons Why Competition is a Great Thing

by Kyle Zaylor March 3, 2013

It’s a competitive world out there! It’s fierce! It’s bitter and it never relents! No matter what part of the real estate world you come from, you likely have companies, partnerships, joint ventures, and individuals going after the same piece of pie as you. What’s more, this competition comes from all different angles and is [...]

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Real Estate

Manage Your Investment Risk with the Help of This Technique

by Kyle Zaylor February 24, 2013

Risk is EVERYWHERE in real estate. Given the amount of variables that affect the sale, cash flow, or acquisition of any property or development, you’re bound to have one or multiple variables greatly affect your deal (in a positive or negative way). Our industry is governed by many “standard” metrics that we use to understand [...]

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Real Estate

The Not So Sexy Side of Real Estate Development

by Kyle Zaylor February 17, 2013

I’m going to make a statement. You may agree or disagree. But, for the sake of this article, I’m going to make this statement and stick to it. Here it goes: Real estate development is “sexy.” There are certain professions that seem to have an undefined panache to them. An architect comes to mind. So [...]

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