Comments on: The Art Of The Deal https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-art-of-the-deal/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Jeff R. https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-art-of-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-2463718 Jeff R. Tue, 29 Mar 2016 01:27:07 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39942#comment-2463718 He misses a really big piece of the puzzle: developers put their capital on the line. Banks aren’t going to lend anybody 30 million to build an office park that might wind up only being worth ten if the tenants who were going to occupy it pull out or go bankrupt two years into a ten year lease or what have you, so the banks want demand developers put up otherassets as additional collateral. Sometimes it’ll be your own personal assets, sometimes it’ll be your investors, but of course the more partners you have, the smaller the profit you’ll make, so it makes sense to use your own as much as possible. It helps to already be rich if you want to make money in real estate development.

]]> By: Rob Sperry https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-art-of-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-2463650 Rob Sperry Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:40:23 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39942#comment-2463650 What percentage of the barriers are put there by established developers in cooperation with government to prevent upstart or potential developers from becoming developers? Start with the Taxi industry and a basis for comparison.

]]> By: Slovenian Guest https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-art-of-the-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-2463600 Slovenian Guest Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:42:31 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39942#comment-2463600 We could really change entrepreneur to “permiteur” at this point.

This also reminds me of the Golden Gate bridge, it was build in half a decade back in the thirties, essentially by hand with slide rulers. So you would think they could do it in half the time, if not sooner, today, with modern heavy duty equipment, computers and better materials, right?

Wrong, the other, Oakland Bay Bridge took a whole decade to build, construction begin was 2002, construction end 2013! They even had to import Chinese welders, it was really sad all around.

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