Bobby Fijan
@bobbyfijan
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Bill James of Floorplans | Building Rowhomes for Families | Prev: Apartment Developer; Co-Founder, https://t.co/751CiyvDBA | Listen to me on the Odd Lots Podcast ⬇️
Joined May 2017
Highlight of my career was being quoted in the Daily Mail as an expert
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The better choice. ***ignore the quote on the bottom of the cover***
When people first get interested in business, they pick one of these two books and make it their entire personality for the next decade
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The MAJOR downside of small projecst is that they are (currently, though working on solving this issue) more than 2X the amount of work to do 2 projects project that are each half the size.
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The advantage of an infill size is that you are find a lot more sites that are *undeniably* cool/good/scarce locations.
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This is *related* to why I'm currently focusing on smaller infill size projects, rather than larger institutional ones. When you have to find sites that are both:. • Cool location.• 2+ acres. You get fewer results AND pay more competing with the TCRs of the world. Or, you can.
As a developer, it's very hard for me to understand people paying up for anything that isn't on scarce dirt. When there's a cool building across the street from awesome covered land, I simply do not understand the person who buys the cool building for a premium.
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RT @bobbyfijan: What kids actually require is an increase in the number of *bedrooms* in housing, not (necessarily) housing size. Just look….
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RT @bobbyfijan: 99% of the lifestyle photos on apartment websites are of multi-cultural singles/couples mingling at a cocktail party, trave….
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I couldn’t figure it out, so I asked. “Is that a holiday?”. “It’s the opening day of dove season.”.
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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And it’s funny how there are those regional differences. A few years ago I was visiting Texas, and the guy said “Oh thats September 1. Those guys wont be available.”. I started racking my brain to think was there a holiday I was missing? Or was one coming early?.
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A pretty useful lesson for any future NYC lawyer (or real estate developer) to learn that you can’t schedule a deal closing for a high holiday.
SOURCE: Columbia Law School’s student orientation includes a vignette in which a student complains that it’s impossible to schedule events around Jewish holidays. This is what the school picked as its example of anti-Semitism. Not calls to murder Zionists or any of the other
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And fewer bathrooms per bedroom . which enables the house to be smaller, and therefore *relatively* more affordable. 3BR/1BA
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What kids actually require is an increase in the number of *bedrooms* in housing, not (necessarily) housing size. Just look at the floorplans of pre-war apartments or mid-century starter homes. Smaller, but more bedrooms than those built today.
This is so bad. There’s already the basic problem that kids increase the dwelling size a family needs without a corresponding increase in resources. This type of discrimination compounds the problem and drives child poverty higher.
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And then a good coat of paint. Painted brick is so hot right now
Little caulk should do it, if not duct tape for good measure. Good to go.
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Then, unfortunately, there is the data/confirmation bias that sets in. All of the apartments are built like the 2BR. When Landlords and Leasing Agents crunch the numbers they see very few families. And they make the conclusion "Families do not want to live in APARTMENTS". When it.
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Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.
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(What's even more interesting is that couples who are *open* to the idea of having kids ALSO do not have the same preference).
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I use this example all the time . Look at these 2 floorplans. They are the exact same size (1200sf). A 2BR and a 3BR. Developers, correctly, believe the best allocation of space (to maximize $$) for singles is to have 2 equal sized suites. But do *families* have the same
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Market rate developers are happy & willing to rent to whoever will pay the highest rent *per square foot*. The primary reason that developers do not build "apartments for families" is not due any bias. Rather, it is a result of the (mistaken) belief that:. Families want.
@bobbyfijan Why don’t landlords want families?.
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And for any Philly folks who don’t know, Le Diplomate = Parc. Everything is the same. And it’s great.
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Maybe they just all agree that the mushroom tart and warm shrimp salad are THAT good.
The National Guard is defending the crime-ridden Le Diplomate in downtown DC.
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And then she went back to work after our youngest was in school. For other moms, either they don’t have that trajectory or the desire. To incentivize only those who work is not right. And certainly not in the best of families.
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