Matthew James

Husband & Father |
Interests: Land, Finance, Time Freedom

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@bryan_johnson Been on it at 5 mg for over a year. Key tip, Amazon pharmacy has it at like 5 bucks a month with your W2 insurance in generic form!

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@BowTiedBroke 997

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@FlameofeEAST @pakpakchicken It was both.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

This is wrong, at least for FL and most likely in most other markets. I'm a land dev manager for a home builder.

Tree saves are typically sought to be shown on the civil plans by the local municipality during entitlement and civil plan reviews. Different municipalities have different requirements.

The reason most places end up with zero tree saves on the lot areas is because of grading requirements to make the site work. You dig ponds for storm detention and then use that fill to raise the areas where the homes go as well as the roads. If you save a tree, you can't touch the grade around it. So if you fill 3 ft around a tree trunk because that's the finished grade on the civil plans, the tree would die. Therefore it's not possible to save trees in lot areas.

Typically if there are any tree saves it's in the conservation buffer areas where grade changes minimally.

Transplanting trees as another option takes 4-6 months and 25k per tree. Timewise it isn't feasible to do this for every lot in a 200+ lot community. Nor is there tree transplant supply to handle that type of need.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@clint_turner Solar farm

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@yqboom The profit isn't in the monthly cashflow. It's the tax savings from depreciation to offset where the real profit comes from.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@kevinxu Feels like yesterday

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@pakpakchicken Made 11% in 1 day on ONDS thanks to this post 🙏

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@ClintT_land @gas_biz @legen_eth Bingo

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

That's wild. I don't see how they could force you into something like assuming all 4 of your lots have adequate road frontage.

If it was a slip of the tongue where you mentioned possible future platting, I'd try telling them I'm not pursuing that plan any longer and only want my 4 lots. They shouldn't be able to force you into the turnaround if the 4 lots all meet the lot standards.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@_nickstaley Lucky you for getting out on the positive side after buying a parcel with no access.

[Andrew Jeffery @credealjunkie]

So you wanna be a real estate GP?

Good luck.

All you have to do is:

Find a deal (really hard)

Tie it up (without overpaying)

Raise the money (even harder)

Close the deal (not that hard be a real pain in the A)

Execute the business plan (which involves some combination of zoning expertise, construction knowledge, interior design, lease negotiation, tenant management, financial modeling, broker management, crisis management, budgeting chops, project management, vendor oversight, accounting, tax compliance, regulatory compliance, investor relations, financial engineering, navigation of local politics, and those are just the basics)

Hit milestones you set when you knew nothing about the deal (otherwise you won’t hit your return targets and won’t get paid, let alone do another deal)

Sign personally for debt that could sink you personally (your spouse will also have to sign which definitely gets easier the more loans you sign for).

Sell the deal (into market conditions you couldn't have possibly predicted)

Do it all again (plowing every penny you made on the early deals into the subsequent ones if you're lucky, plowing in borrowed money if you're not)

(Oh, and if you haven't round-tripped a dozen or so deals, you can't miss, because if you do your LPs will probably never invest with you again.)

Or, you could go get a job

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

1 in 13 men in the US are millionaires.

But only 1 in 140 men can bench press 225 pounds. The same holds true for any measure of fitness.

We like to believe that rich people got lucky. And some do, but…

If success can be explained by luck, why is fitness—which is entirely within our control—10X more rare?

What if…

…wealth, fitness, a lasting marriage, or any form of success isn’t really about luck—but simply the compounded result of consistent effort?

The day you accept this truth—that the key to success in anything is found in the mirror—is the day your life changes.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@pakpakchicken It'll push far higher through May '26

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@subdivisionguy Definite rear. Rear in subs around me that i actively use and it's far nicer than the trails along streets.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@N8RealEstate You'll naturally prioritize time with family and your child as well as your career and finances over time wasting habits. Odd enough, having kids improves productivity and efficiency if you are goal oriented.

I make way more money now than I ever did pre-kids.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@landlawyerbrian We pay 9k per turtle for relocation to reserves. 6k is the reservation fee. I've had sites with hundreds of GTs. It's the norm in FL. Just had a race against a bald eagle to get trees cut down before nesting season starts next week to not push back this subdivision another year.

[Matthew James @LandDevMatt]

@landlawyerbrian @Scouting4Land Hell yeah. Looking forward to seeing you guys there