All Forum Posts by: Dan Zambrano

Much needed vacation this week. Wife and I are out to Sedona Arizona for the first time ever. We purchased a cosmetic fixer upper in August of last year and have been sprinting ever since to get it the way we want it. Replaced floors throughout, painted every interior space, new hardware everywhere. It has been a grind. Now we are on the 3rd day of our trip and its been an incredible experience, horseshoe bend, grand canyon, tuzigoot and of course the famous pink jeep tour all have not disappointed. I am astounded by the very obvious general wealth of folks around town here in Sedona. On another note, I am vigorously researching construction methods for the new house, and also chipping away at some concept drawings for it. I want it to be perfect as I have been yearning for this moment for over a decade.

cheers yall!

 Thank you :)

Wow James! Love that reply. I will definitely check that video out. Wright saw these things 150 uears ago, which just melts the mind to consider. He predicted our current state 100 years ago, but he never let that deter him from making beautiful architecture. Wow James I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear someone else with a similar visiom, hope we can commect sometime.

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Well folks, I have an incredibly exciting update!!! I and a bisiness partner are the new proud owners of 8000 sq ft lot in McHenry County. Beautiful infill lot that overlooks a sweeping prairie below, pics below. Now I am diving into the rabbit hole of site prep and septic/ water systems ti get this baby moving forward!

So I had a talk with an architect and he basically quoted me $100k for a set of plans. I almost fell out of my chair. 

So yeah that's not happening, what I am going to do instead is draw up the concept myself in autocad since I know how to do that and then basically will he looking for a young hungry architect that can produce construction drawings off of my concept plans.

This will be a grind, I may not finish the concept drawing for another 1-2 months but hey at this point its going to literally save me 10s of thousands and I love this piece anyway. No brainer. 

The land deal is slow motion, maybe have something to report on that end in a few weeks.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

I follow a youtuber by the name of meetkevin. The guy is a total machine, and it is incredibly humbling that he is 6 years my junior but knows more about real estate and building wealth than I may ever. Anyway he made a video about the market being red today and then showed, very casually that his portfolio was up 24% on the same day!

I think this is the sign I need to push me to familiarize myself with investing in markets. Because admittedly my money is languishing being so over invested in Tesla. Lol

that is all, hopefully I can make a cool announcement on here soon.

Ok guys, I have been procrastinating at putting this business plan together, but I am committing to put an hour into it tomorrow morning. I am having a ton of fun just ideating and am so energized and excited by the next project. Will be a single fam short term rental build.

Still working on my business plan but things seem to be moving fast. I am going ti be meeting up with a developer I met on Linkedin tomorrow so that should he fun. I think I need at least one of these events per month moving forward just to get myself well situated with folks that work in the industry.

I started the business plan and presentation, which is always the hardest part. Now I just have to chip away at it everyday! who knows, might be putting in an offer on a lot this month fingers crossed. Lets go yall, 1st quarter 2024 is almost in the rearview!

 Thanks for the recognition and for dropping a comment :). I would love to connect at some point.

Little update, I got a silent partner to go halfies with me on a lot. Very excited for this Spring Summer as I anticipate the market shifting a bit more to buyers market for land. Current strategy will be to build out as short term rental, 2br 1 ba.

Still have not sat down to do business plan, admittedly this is my growth area, but I know its a necessary component to the journey.

cheers yall, hope everyone is getting out to enjoy the weather this weekend.