How to get started in real estate development?

[Daniel Khan]

Hi everyone,

I am a finance professional in Toronto and I want to explore a career as a a real estate developer. Could anyone who has become a "self made" developer please provide some guidance on how they did it? I feel like there are no formal "development" education or training resources available and existing developers are reluctant to meet for coffee or provide guidance (which is so surprising to me given the lack of supply. I wonder why the government isn't encouraging more people to become developers compared to the money they are putting into VCs

What would be a good step by step approach to becoming a developer?

Any advice is greatly appreciated :)

[Kristi Kandel]

Quote from @Daniel Khan:

Hi everyone,

I am a finance professional in Toronto and I want to explore a career as a a real estate developer. Could anyone who has become a "self made" developer please provide some guidance on how they did it? I feel like there are no formal "development" education or training resources available and existing developers are reluctant to meet for coffee or provide guidance (which is so surprising to me given the lack of supply. I wonder why the government isn't encouraging more people to become developers compared to the money they are putting into VCs

What would be a good step by step approach to becoming a developer?

Any advice is greatly appreciated :)

 Daniel - I've been in RE development my entire career and started my company in 2015 in CA. Checkout this book I wrote sharing the story. If you want to connect after just DM me and we can setup a call! 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15VTePj526pwUR21OUn-4QNOmx-R... 

I'm also in the process of completing a Development 101 course which should launch by the end of Q1 2024 and we'll have a masterclass that likely launches in Q3 2024. There aren't many resources for development out there and we are trying to fill that gap! 

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