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All Forum Posts by: John Crimmins

John Crimmins has started 14 posts and replied 55 times.

Post: Seeking Knowledgeable / Experienced Florida Land Use Attorney

John CrimminsPosted
  • Investor
  • Richmond, VA
  • Posts 57
  • Votes 33
Quote from @Kristi Kandel:
Quote from @John Crimmins:

Hi All,

I'm looking for a good land use attorney in FL, preferably based in Tampa, Gainesville, or Orlando. Please send your best! Thank you :)


If you go to the website we created for Fort Myers Beach after the hurricane (restorefmb.com) then there is a contractor directory. The last tab is Land Use Attorneys. 

Separately sometimes you can avoid LUAs depending on the situation. I've been a RE developer for 17 years and happy to have a conversation if you'd like. 

Awesome, I'll check out that resource. And thanks for the insight Kristi, I'd love to chat (I'll DM you!). At the moment, just need some docs sorted out. In the future, I'd like someone good in my corner. 

Post: Seeking Knowledgeable / Experienced Florida Land Use Attorney

John CrimminsPosted
  • Investor
  • Richmond, VA
  • Posts 57
  • Votes 33
Quote from @Doug Smith:

John N. Redding, Esq.

Redding & Associates, P.A.

113 South MacDill Avenue, Suite A

Tampa, Florida 33609

Telephone 813.258.4401


 Thanks for the rec Doug!

Post: Seeking Knowledgeable / Experienced Florida Land Use Attorney

John CrimminsPosted
  • Investor
  • Richmond, VA
  • Posts 57
  • Votes 33
Quote from @Michael Haynes:

Hello John Crimmins in Richmond, VA.

John Lum was the President of the Tampa Builders Association and President of the Mayor's Development Council.

Agent, Developer, Architect

Century 21 with Beggins

3628 Henderson Blvd.

Tampa, Fl. 33629

305) 800-0204


 Thanks for the rec! Impressive resume.

Post: Seeking Knowledgeable / Experienced Florida Land Use Attorney

John CrimminsPosted
  • Investor
  • Richmond, VA
  • Posts 57
  • Votes 33

Hi All,

I'm looking for a good land use attorney in FL, preferably based in Tampa, Gainesville, or Orlando. Please send your best! Thank you :)

Quote from @Jay Hinrichs:
Quote from @John Crimmins:
Quote from @Jay Hinrichs:
Quote from @John Crimmins:
Quote from @Brad Costanzo:

Maybe I'm biased because I know Cody personally and am a student at VestRight.  Take that for what you will. 

I'll address the questions I see here.

Cody never says this is easy and requires very little work. It's the opposite. He says he doesn't want anyone who isn't committed and persistent and patient. 

However, most of the work involved involves searching for off-market raw land with development potential, finding the owner and seeing if they're willing to sell.  This can easily be done in 10 hours a week.  

Once you get a piece of property under contract, then you're outsourcing all of the entitlement work to experts and basically managing that part.  

With this model there's no need to do dozens of deals at a time, in fact, one deal a month can literally be worth 7 figures.  Spending 10 hours a week shepherding that is time well spent. 

In many cases, but definitely not all, students partner with Cody's development company to handle the entitlements and the exits to homebuilders for a profit share which can be mid-six figures for simply bird dirt-dogging the deal.  In fact, here's a video of Cody cutting a $600,000 check to a VestRight student who bird dogged a deal for him. 

@Chris Seveney is normally correct here in that "most" people making 6-7 figures are simply selling courses.  In the video above, Cody made more money on this deal with a student than VestRight has made in its history teaching this to students.  (Cody told me this directly)

@Scott E. LOL at your quote "You shouldn't pay ANYBODY this much money for their experience. There is no way that he or anybody will give you $18,000 worth of value."  

You are an online real estate investing mentor yourself. You're telling me that with your success, nobody should ever pay you to help shortcut their experience?  You said "There is no way that he or anybody will give you $18,000 worth of value."  That's really interesting and as a mentor you might want to reexamine that belief.  None of your mentees have ever made more than 18,000 with your advice?  

Also, Cody isn't a Youtuber, for 20 years he's been doing land deals. In fact, you should reach out to him and have him on your youtube channel if you're skeptical. He lives in Scottsdale as well. Hit him up with that request and tell him Brad sent you. I think you'll be surprised at how different what he does is compared to traditional REI.



 Hey Brad, just wanted to thank you for your response here. I'd love to learn more about your experience within the program. Have you seen success yet?


going to be tough sledding right now with many builder developers taking a year or more off .. this can be done I have done it over the years. but its NOT EASY .. land sellers are going to want to know you have money to close on the deals before they let you tie them up.. Generally speaking so this is not like wholesaling houses. which sellers will let wholesalers tie up a property with 50 bucks or 500 bucks.. the deals i buy I have to put up 100k in cash to start the process

 How do students of Cody's provide proof of funds beforehand then? Are they showing the developer's bank account? Lol


developers normally can tie up dirt based on reputation in the area.. and like I said substantial non refundable EM in the 6 figure range.. I know Cody he used to live in Portland and I had looked at a few deals he had put together.. He for sure knows the development business.. selling this to the mass's and or those with no experience and very little capital   well you know    sometimes I wonder if I should start selling my how too for 10 to 15k.. I had another client call me and he paid 20k for basically nothing.. But I will say that Cody's stuff I am sure is accurate and its how you would go about tying up dirt and who to work with etc etc.. the issue is they are making it sound like 10 hours a week will make you millions..  then we have to look at logic and reality.  Builder developers are not dump and they have their own Land Ack guys who do nothing but scour for deals and they are employees..

Jay, I ended up buying the course from Cody, learning a TON, and am working on finding that first deal. Re-reading your replies helped me learn a lot as well, I appreciate the time you take to post here and help people. What a great guy.

I wanted to ask - you said many developers are taking a year off now? Why is that? 

Hope I get the chance to buy you a beer or coffee some time my friend. Cheers!

Quote from @Craig Calhoun:

I'm laughing as I read the various opinions on this Vestright topic.  I understand the skepticism and the concerns expressed.  It is easy to poke holes at something that you don't understand and in some ways may be over-hyped and has a high dollar entry value.  My wife and I purchased the Vestright program with no real estate background over 3 years ago. We took a deep dive and had success.  It wasn't easy, cheap, or without sleepless nights.  To date, our combined projects have yielded 320 preliminary plat approved lots across 101 total acres in three different counties and have generated a nice healthy return.  Real estate development is a niche market with 1,000 things that can go wrong, but I will vouch for Cody Bjugan and the value of the Vestright training.  It is not a course taught by someone with 5-10 years experience, rather over 20 years and still counting.  If the niche were an easy one, everybody would be doing it. 


 Way to go Craig! Hats off to you and your wife. I purchased the program and am very satisfied so far... nearly finished with the course and ready to get to work. Would love to connect and talk shop if you're open to it!

Post: Land Hacking with STRs and event spaces

John CrimminsPosted
  • Investor
  • Richmond, VA
  • Posts 57
  • Votes 33

Hey Tony, curious to know - what is land hacking? Are you subdividing and building STR's / event spaces? I'm a land acquisitions specialist operating in FL and TN so it might be a little different there but might be able to help or connect you with someone that can better help depending on what you're trying to do.

Just curious if anyone has experience managing or owning a modern-style or modern-themed cabin in Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg. Thinking about building. Would love referrals to builders that specialize in this if anyone knows one!

Quote from @John Carbone:
Quote from @Mark S.:

@Collin H. Same here. Premium cabin priced right is doing well, look-alike but very well appointed and private is down about 20%.

A lot of people have been mislead and have been convinced there is great wealth in STRs. There was - up to a couple years ago.

And the RV’s, yurts, and tents are down about 99 percent 

 Is this true? Anyone own these or tiny-homes and experience any declines? 

Quote from @Ken Boone:

When the flat screen TCL Roku TVs reach 110 - 120" and under 1.5k, then I'll switch over to the flat screen.  What I see all the time in my market is for a listing to say they have a theater room and really what they have is theater seats with a 65" TV.  If you go with an 85" maybe you can make it work, but a picture showing a large 120" projector screen in your listing really makes it pop.  Yes it is more work than just slapping a TV on the wall for sure, but I will tell you the teenagers LOVE playing Call of Duty and Fortnight on my 120" projector screens.  It is an experience they don't get at home. Also, if you go 4k and Dolby Atmos things get more complicated, but it looks and sounds amazing.  Again, it gives the guests an experience they probably won't have at home.

Having said all that TCL did release a 98" 4k smart TV which is starting to get in the area of maybe skip the projector setup for me, however it is 5k.


 Which projector do you use? I'm thinking I'll probably go projector and throw an xbox in there too.