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The distributed generation market is shifting rapidly as capital tightens, power prices rise, and smaller developers bump up against capital and market constraints. Independent power producers (IPPs) like Aspen Power are stepping in to bridge the gap—partnering with developers, securing financing, and scaling solar assets in key markets. But what does it take to succeed in today's distributed energy sector? And what does distributed energy mean in today's evolving market?Jorge Vargas, co-founder and CEO of Aspen Power, has spent over two decades in structured finance and solar project development, with past roles at Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Lennar Homes. Aspen Power emerged from his work at Energy Impact Partners, where he identified the need for a full-scale IPPs focused on distributed generation. Backed by private equity firm Carlyle, Aspen Power has grown rapidly, now managing over 250MW of assets. Jorge breaks down how they are reshaping distributed generation through innovative financing, project buybacks, repowering existing assets, and long-term investment in clean energy infrastructure. Expect to learn:Why smaller developers are struggling to access capital—and how Aspen is helpingThe four market segments driving distributed generation todayHow Aspen's buyback strategy is unlocking new value in older solar assetsThe role of Safe Harbor in securing ITC benefits amid policy uncertaintyThe biggest regulatory and financial challenges facing developers in 2025If you want to connect with today's guest, you'll find links to his contact info in the show notes on the blog at https://mysuncast.com/suncast-episodes/.Our Platinum Presenting Sponsor for SunCast is CPS America!SunCast is proudly supported by Trina Solar.You can learn more about all the sponsors who help make this show free for you at www.mysuncast.com/sponsors.Remember, you can always find resources, learn more about today's guest and explore recommendations, book links, and more than 730 other founder stories and startup advice at www.mysuncast.com.Subscribe to Valence, our weekly LinkedIn Newsletter, and learn the elements of compelling storytelling: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/valence-content-that-connects-7145928995363049472/You can connect with me, Nico Johnson, on:Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/nicomeoLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickalus

On Take the Stage, presented by Haley Marketing, we bring you the BEST speakers, coaches, trainers, and strategic partners from across the staffing and recruiting industry every other week. More than your standard interview, each conversation is built off of a specific session or topic these industry thought leaders bring to conferences and audiences around the country. KEY MOMENTS This episode of Take the Stage with Brad Bialy and Kelly Merbler is PACKED with takeaways. Focusing on strengths leads to better performance, engagement, and overall success. Leaders should focus on their own strengths and values in order to effectively lead others. Understanding and developing our strengths can lead to a more fulfilling and purpose-driven life. Leaders should create a culture that values and leverages individual strengths. Taking time for self-care and setting boundaries is essential to avoid burnout ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Brad Bialy  (LinkedIn) Brad Bialy has a deep passion for helping staffing and recruiting firms achieve their business objectives through strategic digital marketing. For over a decade, Brad has developed a proven track record of motivating and educating staffing industry professionals at over 100 industry-specific conferences and webinars.    As a visionary leader, Brad has helped guide the comprehensive marketing strategy of more than 300 staffing and recruiting firms. His keen eye for strategy and delivery has resulted in multiple industry award-winning social media campaigns, making him a sought-after expert and speaker in the industry.    Kelly Merbler (LinkedIn) Kelly spent twenty-one years as a regional executive with a global staffng organization where she was responsible for leading, hiring, developing and building successful sales and operations teams. She knows that the secret of success is hiring good talent, which begins with identifying what people do best and aligning them in the right role for maximum impact. She discovered her passion in life several years ago while attending a leadership conference where her soon-to-be mentor, Dr. John C. Maxwell, was the keynote speaker. It was there she became keenly aware of her interest and passion in helping other leaders discover their purpose in life. Since then, she became a Gallup-Certifed Strengths Coach and faculty member of Maxwell Leadership, providing a wide variety of leadership and coaching programs to senior leaders and corporate clients, such as Louis Vuitton, HR Florida State Council, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, UKG, Lennar Homes, and Carnival Corporation. Kelly Merbler is the founding Principal of The Kelly Merbler Company, LLC, which is a leadership consulting frm based in South Florida specializing in Strengths-Based employee engagement and retention programs, culture building, keynote speaking and leadership development programs.

There were a number of real estate cases in 2023, but only a few were notable enough to be of importance to all practitioners in this area of the law. Rocky Dhir welcomes Roland Love to discuss his article highlighting prominent 2023 real estate decisions in the December edition of the Texas Bar Journal. Roland gives an overview of these cases and their implications, covering PNC Mortgage v. Howard, Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction, Ltd. v. Whitely, Mitchell v. MAP Resources, Inc., and the rather humorous Pecos County Appraisal District v. Iraan-Sheffield ISD. Read Roland's full article here: Real Estate Law Year in Review  Roland Love is the 2022 recipient of the State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award in Real Estate and the Texas Bar College Patrick A. Nester Award for Outstanding Achievement in CLE.

There were a number of real estate cases in 2023, but only a few were notable enough to be of importance to all practitioners in this area of the law. Rocky Dhir welcomes Roland Love to discuss his article highlighting prominent 2023 real estate decisions in the December edition of the Texas Bar Journal. Roland gives an overview of these cases and their implications, covering PNC Mortgage v. Howard, Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction, Ltd. v. Whitely, Mitchell v. MAP Resources, Inc., and the rather humorous Pecos County Appraisal District v. Iraan-Sheffield ISD. Read Roland's full article here: Real Estate Law Year in Review  Roland Love is the 2022 recipient of the State Bar of Texas Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award in Real Estate and the Texas Bar College Patrick A. Nester Award for Outstanding Achievement in CLE.

Mortgages Rates & Loan Products:  Rates will continue to moderate downward, likely to stabilize somewhere between 6 and 6.5%.  This will of course support increased demand.  Welcome back to America's #1 Daily Podcast, featuring America's #1 Real Estate Coaches and Top EXP Realty Sponsors in the World, Tim and Julie Harris. Ready to become an EXP Realty Agent and join Tim and Julie Harris? https://whylibertas.com/harris or text Tim directly 512-758-0206 IMPORTANT: Join #1 Real Estate Coaches Tim and Julie Harris's Premier Coaching now for FREE. Included is a DAILY Coaching Session with a HARRIS Certified Coach. Proven and tested lead generation, systems, and scripts designed for this market. Instant FREE Access Now: YES, Enroll Me NOW In Premier Coaching https://members.timandjulieharris.com We do not expect the typical, 30-year fixed rates to go below 6% any time soon, but if you use more creative financing, you can get that rate lower than 6!. You'll also see a wider variety of mortgages and should understand adjustable rate mortgages, how to use points to buy down the interest rate, seller's financing, and builder financing.  FHA, VA, First-time buyer loans and programs will return to the market.   REAL ESTATE LEADS, LEADS and more LEADS: Question: What is Tim and Julie Harris's favorite PROBATE LEAD PROVIDER? Simple, https://alltheleads.com/harris Those methods are all ways you can achieve a 5 to 5 point-something percent interest rate.  Take for example what Toll Brothers Builders are doing currently, with their New Year Home Sales event:  A 2/1 Buydown with the first year at 4.99% Lennar Homes is also advertising 'rates in the 4's for primary residences' According to HousingWire, once interest rates fell from 8.1% down to 7.32%, there was an immediate increase in mortgage purchase applications.  Imagine what will happen when we get down under 7% again.  As of today, we are at 7.077% for the average mortgage rate.  A 15-year conforming is 6.2% (Housing wire) Ready to become an EXPIRED Listing Agent? As promised, here is the discount link for the EXPIRED LISTING LEADS: https://www.redx.com/affiliate/tim-and-julie-harris/?aff_code=670699 Fannie and Freddie are helping as well.  The conforming loan limit for mortgages backed by them in 2024 will be $766,550, which is a 5.5% increase over the old amount of $726.200.  This has already been announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).  This was raised based on FHFA's assessment that home prices rose by 5.56% this year. Amazingly, $766,550 isn't high enough in some areas! There are already provisions for that.  There are markets where 115% of the local median home value is higher than $766,550.  Think about coastal markets where the entry level is around a million dollars. -- The HERA (Housing & Economic Recovery Act) has a ceiling of 150% of the baseline conforming limit, which equals $1,149,825 for one-unit properties.   Additionally, free refinance offers are already available with many lenders and through builder's financing. Mortgage applications are UP 4% week over week, for the 4th straight week, and that's during the slowest time of year! In conclusion, it's currently ALL GOOD NEWS regarding mortgage products and better interest rates.

Today's guest is Logan Swanson.    Logan is a husband, father, and land investor.   Show summary: In this episode, Logan Swanson shares his journey from starting a land investing business with a $2000 loan to running a successful funding company. He highlights his strategy of buying cheap desert squares in Texas and Nevada and selling them at a profit. Swanson also discusses his approach to real estate development, focusing on adding value through subdivision and entitlement projects.    -------------------------------------------------------------- Developing Properties and Funding Land Investment Deals (00:01:10)   Pivoting to Financing Land Acquisitions and Sales (00:05:29)   Different Ways of Investing in Land: Subdivision Plays (00:10:15)   The subdivision strategy (00:10:57)   Entitlement projects (00:12:13)   The funding approach (00:18:12)   The goals for the company (00:22:04)   Strategic growth and lifestyle balance (00:23:28)   Compartmentalizing and scalability (00:24:12) -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Logan: Social: @primelandexchange Web: www.thelandfixer.com   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Logan Swanson (00:00:00) - The idea is instead of going and extending a ton of capital to buy properties, you can actually just partner with landowners and have a skill set to find the best and highest use for that property. And then through maybe a little bit of civil engineering, rezoning, subdivision, any number of ways in which you can force appreciation onto a property, you can actually give that landowner above market value for their property, and you can make a substantial profit with much smaller investment, much less risk.   Intro (00:00:33) - Welcome to the how to Scale Commercial Real Estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big.   Sam Wilson (00:00:46) - Logan Swanson is a husband, father and also a land investor. Logan, welcome to the show.   Logan Swanson (00:00:51) - Hey, thanks for having me.   Sam Wilson (00:00:53) - Absolutely, Logan, the pleasure is mine. There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90s or less. Can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now? And how did you get there?   Logan Swanson (00:01:02) - Well, I started with a $2,000 loan in 2018 to go buy some vacant desert squares in the middle of nowhere in Texas.   Logan Swanson (00:01:10) - Nevada. Um, we've moved that now. Grown it from just flipping vacant land to developing properties, funding other land investment deals. And now our main focus is trying to combine all the pieces together into something that's driving a little bit more purpose in my life.   Sam Wilson (00:01:30) - That is really cool, I love that. I know for those of you that are listening to this show and I know I've mentioned this, I think only one other time out of the 800 and something episodes is that I always ask guest a fun fact or a surprising view. Sometimes we incorporate those here into the show. For those of you who are listening. Logan, I think it was in 2018. Your fun fact or surprising views says you started like you said there were the $2,000 loan, but when you when you started, you were a construction project manager by day in a high end restaurant, server by night. And, you know, through just sounds like grit and perseverance, you have really built your business to where it is today.   Logan Swanson (00:02:09) - Yeah. And with my wife, she's my business partner. And as much as I was burning the midnight oil, she was to.   Sam Wilson (00:02:15) - Man, that's really cool, I love it. So you took that $2,000 loan you were buying desert squares, which, from what I understand, correct me why I'm wrong in the land investing space. That's kind of like that's that's the riskier way of investing in land. No. Or tell me about it.   Logan Swanson (00:02:32) - Yeah. So I mean, effectively it's investment. Like anything else you buy as cheap as possible and then you resell it. It's not. There are risks to every investment. Right. But it's the least risky because they're so cheap. When I was started, you know, I started I was buying five acre properties in West Texas for $500, $700 and selling them for $5,000, $7,000.   Sam Wilson (00:02:56) - Who wants those? I mean, what's the like if you're buying five acres for 500? I mean, that's astounding. Like, what is it? It's got to be high desert.   Sam Wilson (00:03:08) - Just. No.   Logan Swanson (00:03:10) - Yeah, yeah, it is rough. It is rough. But there's a buyer for every piece of land. Don't think I've. Nothing has said on my inventory longer than a year. Um, so you might have to get creative with how you sell it, but, you know, there's there's this there's this American intuition that says, I want to own a piece of America. And actually it exists out of this country as well. They want to own a piece of America. And for folks that don't have a lot of money, you know, $5,000, we owner financed a lot of land back then. So it was like $100 down $100 a month, and you could start owning a piece of America and shoot, if you went out there once a year and drove ATVs around, it'd be worth it.   Sam Wilson (00:03:48) - Oh, for sure, for sure. Undoubtedly. That's that's really crazy. So obviously you're not buying five acre desert squares anymore for 500 bucks and flipping it for five grand, which is not a bad return on investment, by the way.   Sam Wilson (00:04:02) - Mean. Now, if it didn't take any time, I'd do that once a month and still be happy about it. But sure. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's better than a sharp stick in the eye, but either way, what is your business look like today?   Logan Swanson (00:04:15) - So today, this year we launched our funding company which has been the main focus. So I've done a lot of flips kind of all over the country. And what that's given me is a skill set to underwrite land flips, which is a pretty, you know, small demographic of people who can underwrite land deals anywhere in the country and quickly evaluate risks and resale value. So our funding company was just really new to me. It's a fine it's it's strictly financial. Whereas before, you know, there's a little bit more of a I don't know, it's just it's very different. I'm not I'm not like a button up suit and tie guy. So getting into something that's like much more banking than it is investing was a big change of pace for me.   Logan Swanson (00:04:59) - So we spent the year kind of building and developing that. Um, and my goal is to try to, you know, five x or ten x at this year. And we're we're well underway. You know, you're in Tennessee. We just funded a $1.9 million development in Tennessee. Gotcha.   Sam Wilson (00:05:15) - Y is now a strategic time to pivot your business out of buying and reselling land. And now into the financing of land acquisitions and sales.   Logan Swanson (00:05:29) - Well, it's beautiful because we are actually still kind of just doing the same thing. You know, when we fund a deal, we actually take title, and then we're signing a marketing agreement with the person that brought us the deal. So they effectively get a marketing agreement with either a profit share or a fixed rate payout to us once the property is sold. Um, I love it now because it's just allows me to own more land all over the place and have someone else do the selling for me and find the deals. So where my business was stymied in the past was how do I regularly find and buy five, ten, 15 undervalued properties a month when I could just, you know, have access to the funding and the structure to do it myself? And we make less money per deal, but mean it's still nothing to sneeze at.   Logan Swanson (00:06:15) - Well, for.   Sam Wilson (00:06:16) - Sure, but you. So unlike traditional funding, this is not a strictly debt play. It sounds like you guys are both debt and taking and JV, right? Right. It's more of a like you said, it's a joint venture. Okay, okay, that's really cool. And so have you shut down your marketing arm of your own land deals to really focus on growing the side of the business? You're doing both still.   Logan Swanson (00:06:37) - Yeah. So it's actually one of the benefits of my company is since I have kind of this huge buyers list and the strong marketing force, when people work with me to fund their deals, they also get the benefits of all that stuff. And, you know, we're pretty well established in certain areas, so it's kind of operate on a calendar. I go back to the same areas again and again and scoop deals and sell them, and I just don't I my second year went nuts. You know, I was buying land all over the country and it just became this train wreck.   Logan Swanson (00:07:05) - So now it's like I only work in Texas, I only work in these few counties, and it's much more repeatable and delegated. So that's that's what we do. Right.   Sam Wilson (00:07:14) - And it sounds like those were those were some of the mistakes. Maybe in the early years that you made was was kind of going too broad.   Logan Swanson (00:07:21) - Yeah. So I mean when we started 2018, we had a lot of success just doing these desert squares. And then the next year we were like, let's move closer to home. So we started going to markets, um, outside of DFW, Dallas-Fort worth. That's where I'm from. And it there was not a lot of competition in our industry. So we were buying we were kind of sweeping through neighborhoods. We were buying properties for, you know, a home like a Lakeview lot for a thousand $2,000 and selling it for 15 to $20,000 cash, you know, within weeks. Right. Um, and, you know, my head just blew up. I thought I was a genius.   Logan Swanson (00:07:58) - It was really just circumstantial. And I was kind of first to the party in a lot of ways. But. So my head got full of all these crazy ideas. And for some reason, my second year, my goal became to own land in every state. And I just went nuts. Um, and yeah, it's easy to operate efficiently in one market. It's almost impossible to operate efficiently in 15, 20, 30 markets.   Sam Wilson (00:08:18) - Man, there's there is a lot of wisdom packed into packed into that. And I think that's also funny, the point you made there about how you can mistake your success for, oh, I'm a genius. And it's really just market forces that for whatever reason, you're at the right place at the right time. And having the insight to spot the difference is, I think what a lot of people are experiencing right now in commercial real estate. Yeah.   Logan Swanson (00:08:46) - Insight or my head was slammed against the wall. It's like hard to miss, you know.   Sam Wilson (00:08:50) - Right. Well there's that too.   Sam Wilson (00:08:52) - But I mean I think it's also, you know, being able to go, hey, you know what? We just hit a home run because we were just in the right spot at the right time. Or you're like, man, this is the undiscovered new way to do everything. And then you go all in and you find out that, like, no, actually it was just the right place at the right time. And yeah, now your your hat is in your hand going, what did I do wrong again. So. Right. That's. We're seeing that. I mean, we're seeing that in multifamily. We're seeing that in some overbought asset classes where it's like, oh, you know, people thought they were just, you know, geniuses in the in the commercial real estate space. And it's like, no, you just had a ten year run of incredibly cheap debt in an appetite a buyer's appetite that was just, you know, suppressed.   Logan Swanson (00:09:35) - So, um.   Sam Wilson (00:09:36) - And then that's slowing down.   Sam Wilson (00:09:38) - So it's an interesting time to be. Well, let's talk a little bit about the different ways you are investing in land. We've had maybe. I don't know, 5 or 7 people over the course of this life of this show. Come on and talk about land. We've talked about, you know, buying desert squares a little bit. We've talked a little bit about just the buy it and resell it, the flipping land process. We've talked about people that have come on and all they do is infill lots. And I think that's probably by and large it, but it sounds like you've got a new spin or a different way that you're approaching the land investing business. So I'd love to hear about that.   Logan Swanson (00:10:15) - Yeah. So I'll preface it by saying I did not invent any of these strategies. You know, I feel like in most industries there's this natural progression, sometimes stupidly, to just keep moving on to the next thing, shiny object syndrome. And, you know, the lesson learned from working all over the place back in 2019 was like, how can I do the exact opposite, you know, shrink and work in a small area? So one of the strategies we've done is development plays or really just subdivision plays where you in Texas and a lot of other areas that have a lot of private land, there's very few restrictions or even processes built around subdividing land up to ten acres.   Logan Swanson (00:10:57) - So we would go through and buy, you know, 130, 150 acres worth of land, maybe a little below retail, not even shopping for a huge discount. But then you, you know, you bring in some civil engineers, you design a little bit of a subdivision, maybe do a little road and power work, and you can double the value of that property just in the subdivision. And then instead of marketing all over the country, you're just marketing a bunch of properties in the exact same location. You know, you're working with one broker or one title company, all that sort of stuff. So we really like those. We're actively pursuing those. We have another wing that's kind of focused on entitlement projects, which is unique to me, and something I'm still dipping my toes in here. But the idea is instead of going and extending a ton of capital to buy properties, you can actually just partner with landowners and have a skill set to find the best and highest use for that property. And then through maybe a little bit of civil engineering, rezoning, subdivision, any number of ways in which you can force appreciation onto a property, you can actually give that landowner above market value for their property, and you can make a substantial profit with much smaller investment, much less risk.   Logan Swanson (00:12:13) - Um, so like kind of an example of that would be say, you know, we like Tyler, Texas. That's where we're shopping right now. There's people who have, you know, a ten acre tract of land that's there's three apartment complexes in the vicinity nearby. This has all the right utilities and everything running to it. But right now it's just a big square with a bunch of trees on it. So, you know, we partner with them and say, hey, we'll establish a buy price on this of $1.1 million. And here's what we're going to do. You're going to give a six months. We're going to get our engineers and surveyors out here. We're going to design the best and highest layout for an apartment complex that, you know, it jives with the city. They get all their approvals, and then we bring it to market as this package for an apartment complex. But we haven't picked up a shovel. All we've done is the paperwork, maybe some surveyors in the field, and we could maybe spend $50,000 doing that entitlement work and add maybe 300 to $400,000 worth of value.   Logan Swanson (00:13:16) - So the landowner is happy they get 1.1 million when they might have gotten $900,000 as is. And we can walk away with a $250,000 profit with $50,000 invested. Um, those are kind of the strategies and there's endless sorts of opportunities like that from subdivision. It's there's all sorts of ways to do it, but the beauty is just seeing the property doing some analysis. You know, you can do this in the commercial space. Rezone a residential property to a commercial property at a ton of value. That way. Um, and then all you do is bring it to market. So the idea is like, I don't want anyone with shovels out there. I just want paperwork and I want to add value.   Sam Wilson (00:13:56) - Right? Right. In that business plan is incumbent upon there being a healthy construction market or, you know, construction, you know, people still looking for things to build, construction, you know, subdivisions, multifamily complexes, things like that. Is that a risk that you try to calculate when looking at that? I mean.   Logan Swanson (00:14:18) - Yeah. You do your homework, you know, you get on the phone with brokers and agents in the area. Um, really? We tried. We actually have sort of a process behind it. Okay, I'm going to get my acquisition manager on the phone. She's going to call 10 to 15 brokers. She's going to ask them all the same questions and weigh their opinions. So what we're going to be asking is like, what's the demand right now? You know, who what out-of-state money is trying to come into this market and what are they pursuing? Things like that. And they'll kind of tell us, they'll give us a roadmap and say, hey, this is the need. If you brought this sort of development to market or this sort of entitled property to market, there is a buyer pool waiting. So you do that homework ahead of time and then, yeah, obviously you just try to focus on a fast growing area. And DFW is just really like there's a triangle in Texas between Houston, Dallas and Austin where you can't miss.   Sam Wilson (00:15:07) - Right? Right. Understood. Have you have you gotten all the way through that process on any property and found out that you couldn't move it?   Logan Swanson (00:15:15) - No. Not yet. So this is, like I said, something we're dipping our toes into. This is more of a new learned skill set. We're in our third month of trying to put one of these deals together. We're much more familiar with kind of the standard subdivision, which, you know, those are the ones that we like to do on a regular basis. But yeah, this is a whole new thing for us. But we are in a community where we've seen it done many times, so I'm confident that it will work. What?   Sam Wilson (00:15:39) - Why do you think that? Developers don't just go out and do this on their own.   Logan Swanson (00:15:46) - Well mean. Developers are usually the ones that benefit from it. So if you think about like there's certain size companies, right? So there's the huge companies that have their own internal organization, you know, Lennar Homes and things like that.   Logan Swanson (00:16:01) - They're just they it's all in house right. But most of the time they're actually a little smaller than that. So if you have some development company that say is good at building 2 or 3 apartment complexes a year or 2 or 3 strip malls or something like that a year, they may be really good on the construction side, but they don't have the wing or the arm that's going to source the deals. They just wait for the market. They wait for a broker or realtor to call them and say they have a deal. So what we're doing is we're filling that initial step we're bringing to market the deal that makes it very easy for them. Like the idea is to be shovel ready, right? So a lot of that works. Done. The city's already approved the plans. They can just start building.   Sam Wilson (00:16:39) - How often do once the plans are approved, does that developer want to come in and make changes?   Logan Swanson (00:16:46) - Yeah. Mean it's regular. Right. So there is a process with the city that's going to allow them to amend the plans, but a really well executed entitlement deal.   Logan Swanson (00:16:56) - You know, if you're developing an apartment complex, for example, the city is going to give you restrictions. So they're going to say, okay, well you need ingress and egress here. You're going to need this much green space. You can only build this high, um, once you add all those variables in, it's more of a math equation than it is like a stylistic design application, because most builders are going to be like, I just want as many units as I can get. So then you kind of build a site plan that's optimized for the number of units, and then, yeah, maybe they say, hey, I want different cladding or whatever, but that's that's not even what we do. We're just getting the site plan. So this is going to be the layout of the development. And then all your architectural decisions can be done from there.   Sam Wilson (00:17:33) - That's cool man I like that. That's it is a different a different approach. Yes. To the and of course, obviously it's not a not a new approach by any stretch, but is certainly a different approach to what we see.   Sam Wilson (00:17:43) - A lot of land investors doing. Let's talk about the finances side of what you are doing and inside of your funding arm. I'll call it that. Or maybe it's a separate funding company. You guys are going in both. It sounds like you're providing all of the capital to close the deal. And of course, you're, you know, in exchange for that, it's a joint venture. You guys have both the debt and the kind of the equity positions inside of it. How are you doing that? Are you bringing investors in? Are you self-funding all of this? What's that look like?   Logan Swanson (00:18:12) - Yeah. So right now my business partner is the funding. He's got some really nice lines of credit that he's got a decent rate. I mean, as good as you can get today. And we've built the company actually we designed for outside capital. We've just put him in as the outside capital for now until we got to a point where, you know, we're either overextended with how much he can supply, um, or we just get really ambitious and say, we need to hold some funds on hand or we have so many applications.   Logan Swanson (00:18:42) - He's not going to keep digging into his own account for it, but it's it's actually very easy to understand from an outside lender's perspective. We do not take like large chunks of capital and then deploy them at later dates. Anytime money would come into our business, it's going to be put into a specific deal. So an outside investor could even do a little bit of the risk analysis with us. We can show them why we like the deal, why we're funding it, why we agreed to the retail value. And then internally, it's really simple. It starts at 6% return on investment, and that goes up 1% each month that the property's not sold. So it's not a bad deal. Most of our deals are going to sell between 3 and 6 months, and that money can get put back in. So the we've actually been tracking the annualized return of my business partner just from putting his money in. And it's pretty wild. Um, and for us, it's honestly it's it's considered pretty easy money.   Logan Swanson (00:19:39) - Ah, that's one of the reasons I'm talking to a lot of folks that are outside of our space is there is way more opportunity than capital. So the people that are inside providing capital, such as myself, even though I've kind of the best rates for what we do, it's still really expensive. Um, so like whether it be working through my funding company or another person's, there's like way more deals than there is capital right now.   Sam Wilson (00:20:03) - Right? That's really awesome. Love, love what you're doing. Let's talk here. The last few minutes we have let's talk a little bit about team, because it sounds like you've you have gone from again just rewind a few short years ago. Bust in your bust in your backside serving food at a high end restaurant at night to now having a pretty good sized team working with you. Tell me the secrets to how you've built out that team and kind of what the various roles are.   Logan Swanson (00:20:32) - Yeah, so the beautiful part is small team. Okay, so I have kind of these different ventures, but they all effectively do the same thing.   Logan Swanson (00:20:43) - It's all just looking at land deals, underwriting it and then managing transactions. The rest of it is kind of automated. It's like Excel spreadsheet formulas. Um, so for me, in lieu of having like secretaries and things like that, I just have a really well built system. You know, I have CRMs, I have people that book on my calendars. Um, right now most of what I do is just underwriting, which this year I'm hoping to hire an underwriter, but my team is really small. You know, I have a couple VA's that are operating for me. I have a marketing company that's third party that I employ. Um, then I have my contractors, right. So I just have people who are going to do work for me, but they're not employees. And then I have one acquisition manager, and based off of the volume of deals that we're currently doing, she's plenty. And she's not even full time with us. You know, we're managing, say, ten, 15, 20 transactions a month.   Logan Swanson (00:21:38) - That's like four hours a day for her. So the beauty of like, these different businesses or entities is they all just kind of stack. And I've found the right people who can just fill in the holes and don't you know, I have myself, my business partner and my wife, who's also my business partner, and that's pretty much the team.   Sam Wilson (00:21:55) - Wow. That's cool. What about goals for the company? Like what's what's your next? Big thing and why?   Logan Swanson (00:22:04) - Yeah. So, you know, I have a few different companies and the goals are all kind of outlined in each one. One of them, my flipping company wanted on a calendar, and I want that be effectively delegated entirely. Um, right now it isn't. It was kind of paused. It was bigger than it was then. I shrunk it down while I focused on other ventures. So getting that right is pretty big. I have this marketing company where I just market and sell land for other investors and same thing. I want that to be relatively autonomous, and I've done a lot of that.   Logan Swanson (00:22:36) - You know, we paid for a lot of automation to get most of the processes done for us. And then my marketing company carries the heavy lifting in that for my funding company. You know, we did, you know, well over a million last year and our first year. But, you know, we're already 3 million in this year. And we're trying to get like maybe 5 or 10 million there, which would be pretty big for us. And then I just want to do 1 or 2 developments a year. And I think that would keep me pretty busy. Right?   Sam Wilson (00:23:02) - No. That's cool. One thing I love that that that I feel like I'm putting words in your mouth here, but that and and this comes out of a thought from a book I just read called prophet. First, you know where he says one of the mistakes that people make is they just get big for big sake. Like, there's this, there's this, there's this kind of visceral inclination that entrepreneurs have where it's like, well, dude, we did 10 million last year.   Sam Wilson (00:23:28) - We should do 100 million next year. He's like, yeah, but are you happy with 10 million this year? And is your lifestyle good? And like does that balance. And so I think what I hear you saying is like, hey, you know what? We're going to we're going to be strategic about the way we grow. And it sounds like it's going to fit your guys's lifestyle as much is is your monetary and kind of income goals?   Logan Swanson (00:23:48) - Yeah, exactly. You know, if the flipping business, for example, forever, we were like, how can we grow this? How can we grow this? And we just found that the more we grew it, the less we loved it, the more burdensome it would get. Um, so I actually outlined I was like, I want to do five flips a month. You know, I really just want to have five properties and standing inventory, but I want them to fit the following criteria. You know, I have to make, you know, a triple digit profit on each one.   Logan Swanson (00:24:12) - Um, and I need it to be in an area where it'll move within six months and I need it to be sold and marketed by either my automated systems or my broker, so that it's just not no weight on me. So really, it's like, how do I take each each of these things and compartmentalize them in such a way that. I don't really want to work more than a couple hours a day. I know that I want to do other things that are productive, but as far as like land industry, business, you know, don't want to be dedicating my whole life to it. And that's why the funding company is the best one to focus on, because it's so scalable, really, it's a transaction manager, eventually a full time underwriter. And then, you know, I'll probably be just shaking hands and getting the deals funded.   Sam Wilson (00:24:51) - That's awesome. Logan, thank you for taking the time to come on the show today. I certainly appreciate it. I always love talking, talking land and land development.   Sam Wilson (00:24:59) - Everything you've talked about today is something I really just it's a topic I enjoyed. So thank you very much for taking the time to share with us. All of your insights has been great. If our listeners want to get in touch with you and learn more about you, what is the best way to do that?   Logan Swanson (00:25:12) - Yeah, so thanks for asking. I did create a little page that people can visit if they want to. Just explore the various retail ways you can invest in real estate without or land. Excuse me, without having to like start a flipping company or something crazy like that. So if you go to the land fixer.com. There's just a few videos of my ugly mug explaining the various different types of ways that you can, from a retail standpoint, just get money in a booming, small sliver of the real estate investing industry.   Sam Wilson (00:25:43) - That's cool. The land fixer. We will make sure we include that there in the show, notes. Logan. Thank you again for taking the time to come on today.   Sam Wilson (00:25:50) - I do appreciate it.   Logan Swanson (00:25:51) - My pleasure. Have a good one.   Sam Wilson (00:25:52) - Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.  

Marketing for Well Known Brands Molly Lopez, Sparo Marketing   – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 956 Molly Lopez Molly Lopez is the Founder & CEO of Sparo Marketing. She is a nationally recognized, technology-forward digital marketing expert with more than 12 years of experience working in social media, content marketing, paid digital advertising, SEO, and more.    Molly is best known for producing omnichannel growth strategies that help startups, middle-market companies, and Fortune 1000s start and scale new product or service offerings, expand to new markets, or launch new ventures.    Working with household name companies such as Chiquita Banana, Lennar Homes, Sandals, and Beaches Resorts, Del Monte Fresh, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Aventura Mall, LIME, CEMEX, and others, Molly has built a reputation for delivering exceptional marketing results for the most demanding of clients.    Molly founded her own digital marketing agency, Sparo, in 2019, with a mission of bringing “Big Agency” marketing services to companies for more efficient prices.    Molly is passionate about animal welfare and spends much of her free time volunteering at animal rescues locally in Miami as well as working on animal welfare advocacy alongside Friends of Miami Animals Foundation, Inc.     Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Molly Lopez about marketing for well-known brands. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How having a reputable record will lead to more client referrals and more business. - Why one the biggest mistakes companies make is not implementing a solid CRM system and strategy. - How it's important for your CRM system to have the ability to track and automate various touch points with consumers. - How the rapid advancement of automation technology outpaces what internal IT departments can develop so they must collaborate with marketing experts. - Why legacy companies struggle to compete with out of the box solutions.   Connect with Molly: Guest Contact Info Instagram @sparomarketing LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/sparomarketing   Links Mentioned: sparomarketing.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senior Land Development Manager Myles Cardenas with McKinley Homes joins the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio show to detail his day-to-day as a land development manager, upcoming developments and more! Cardenas joins host Carol Morgan on the All About Real Estate segment and shares how young professionals can get involved within the industry. Celebrating his fourth anniversary with the award-winning company in July, Cardenas has previous experience working for CalAtlantic Homes, starting as an intern during his senior year at Kennesaw State University (KSU). Three to four months after celebrating his graduation, the company announced a significant merger with Lennar Homes, where he continued to partner with the company for two-and-a-half years before joining the McKinley Homes team. While at Lennar, Cardenas gained valuable land development experience for a prominent public builder and built two townhome communities in Druid Hills as a construction manager. Cardenas said, “I had the opportunity to get more land development experience for the largest national builder at the time [as well as] construction and development experience that I've carried into my role here at McKinley.” During his time at KSU, Cardenas had the opportunity to participate in a program that resulted from the merger with Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. The school featured a construction management program introduced to KSU students as an additional option following the merger. Cardenas wrapped up his time at the university with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management. Founded in 2008, McKinley Homes has quickly become a well-known name throughout metro Atlanta in the new construction industry. The company began its journey as an investment company, and after constructing a few homes, the company's team decided to bring land development in-house, resulting in the acquisition of Cardenas. Cardenas said, “We do everything from single-family homes to townhomes and some commercial [projects], including apartments, stacked flats…mixed-use projects [and more].” For young professionals entering the industry, Cardenas shared that he's a huge proponent of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (GAHBA), where he found his start as a part of the National Association of Home Builders chapter at KSU. The organization is one of the biggest supporters at the college level, and Cardenas shared that he highly recommends finding ways to get involved with GAHBA. Cardenas said, “It's one of the biggest and best things that I feel I have been able to nourish that relationship from then to now. I can't believe that relationship started when I was 19 years old…and nine years later it's the strongest it's ever been.” Tune in to the full interview above to learn more about McKinley Homes, or visit www.McKinleyHomes.com. Never miss an episode of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio! Subscribe to the podcast here. You can also get a recap of any past episode on the Radio page. Listen to the full interview above! A special thank you to Denim Marketing for sponsoring Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. A comfortable fit for companies of all shapes and sizes, Denim Marketing understands marketing strategies are not one-size-fits-all. The agency works with your company to create a perfectly tailored marketing strategy that will adhere to your specific needs and niche. Try Denim Marketing on for size by calling 770-383-3360 or by visiting www.DenimMarketing.com. The Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio “All About Real Estate" segment, presented by Denim Marketing, highlights the movers and shakers in the Atlanta real estate industry – the home builders, developers, Realtors and suppliers working to provide the American dream for Atlantans. For more information on how you can be featured as a guest, contact Denim Marketing at 770-383-3360 or fill out the Atlanta Real Estate Forum contact form.

Danaus born and raised in Fort Worth, TX by his parents who immigrated from China to live their American dream of owning real estate. Growing up, he spent much of his childhood assisting his parents with the day-to-day management of their humble but thriving real estate portfolio. Danaus bought his first rental properties after college while working as an internal consultant at Pulte and Lennar Homes. Since then, Danaus has purchased dozens of rental properties throughout Texas and California to becoming co-founder of Awning.com

On this episode you'll hear from Mike Monahan, General Manager of a brand new golf course opening September 10th in St. Johns County Florida, Stillwater Golf & Country Club.  This Hampton Golf managed property is the centerpiece of a new Lennar Homes 55+ community and features 18 holes designed by Bobby Weed, unique stack faced bunkers, a well appointed practice facility , including a Himalayan putting green, and so much more.  Get the inside scoop you'll only hear on this podcast on the first golf course built in the NE Florida area in over 20 years!

Careers in Real Estate explores the many areas in the real estate industry to participate in and whether it is the right career for you.  I delve deep into the dozens of niche's and specialty areas that many people never new existed.  I also bring listeners up to date with the most relevant real estate market news and trends to be sure that new real estate professionals clearly understand how and why we work in our industry.  Each episode is time sensitive to the market at that moment in time.

Charleston, South Carolina is the best city in the world and one of our country's most desirable places to live. From the history & culture, to the beaches & shopping, to the restaurants & real estate... Charleston has something for everyone! Our mission at Lively Charleston is to tell the stories of the amazing people, places, and businesses in our city. In this Lively Charleston episode, we're taking a neighborhood tour of Summers Corner in Summerville, South Carolina. This growing award winning community developed by Lennar Homes is impeccably designed and features all the amenities and comforts anyone could be looking for in a place to call home. If you'd like to watch our episodes rather than listen, check out Lively Charleston on YouTube! See this episode HERE. Make sure to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode! And follow us on Instagram: @livelycharleston Get the FREE guide with everything you need to know about Charleston real estate, neighborhoods, schools, parks, restaurants, and leisure activities! Click here to download the guide for free

Watch on YoutTube: https://youtu.be/USD9PHHc0gU We've got your latest Las Vegas Market and Housing stats today along with Special Guest Billy Harvey from Lennar Home in-studio. Feel free to comment and chat with us. Also, please Like and Subscribe to the channel for more! _______________________ Looking to Sell? FIND OUT YOUR HOME'S VALUE: https://www.lvhomeprofessionals.com/sell.php

Arlene Tendick and Mike Aiken from the Carlton Oaks Country Club & Resort's Community Outreach are on John's podcast this week to share the details about how Carlton Oaks Country Club & Resort is teaming up with Lennar Homes to find ways to preserve the course, become more sustainable, and upgrade the resort! Open House on Saturday, March 5th from 10am-12pm Learn more @ carltonoaksinfo.com Come enjoy live music every Friday night all summer long

This week, Amanda concludes her conversation with Carlos Criberio alum of Mater Academy and Florida State University. On this episode, Carlos talks about his current career in media production and how he seeks to apply his skills in his future endeavors. Tune in!Host: Amada Milian (@amandamariemilian)Producer: Ross Ulysse

This week, Amanda sits with Carlos Criberio alum of Mater Academy and Florida State University. On this episode, Carlos talks about his experience at Mater Academy and transition to his undergraduate studies. Carlos also talks about his passion for media production and how this charter school network has helped guide his decision making. Tune in!Host: Amada Milian (@amandamariemilian)Producer: Ross Ulysse

Here’s everything you need to know about Lennar Homes at Carolina Park.   A lot of people have been asking me about my favorite new construction neighborhoods. Today I brought on Tina Jones, a new home consultant at Lennar Homes, to give us more information about the Carolina Park neighborhood (which is one of my absolute favorites), as well as the benefits of buying a Lennar home. Lennar Homes has been building homes all over since 1954 and has often been rated No. 1 in the nation.  Follow along in the video above or else use the timestamps below to navigate our discussion at your leisure: 0:55—Why choose Lennar over another builder? 2:35—The range of homes offered at Carolina Park 3:45—What kinds of amenities are offered in the neighborhood? 4:55—Why people love the Carolina Park location 6:30—One key difference between resale and new construction homes 7:40— Price, square foot, and floor plan ranges for Lennar Homes 8:40—Wrapping up our discussion Carolina Park is a great community where you can find beautiful homes at great value. With over 20 floor plans, you’re bound to find what you need, and the amenities are second to none. If you’d like to contact Lennar with questions about their new construction homes, reach out to (843) 670-5512 or visit www.Lennar.com.  For any other real estate questions you have, feel free to contact us at the Dave Friedman Team. We hope to hear from you soon!

President and Co-Founder of Beacon Management Services Lisa Simmons is in the studio for today's episode of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Joined by co-hosts Carol Morgan and Todd Schnick, the group discusses what the management company does, the type of clients it services, how it sets itself apart from other management services and more on this All About Real Estate segment of Radio. Simmons has been in real estate for several years, starting with a large commercial real estate development company located in Atlanta. Simmons has worked on a number of fantastic commercial real estate properties, as well as retail properties throughout metro Atlanta. In 2003, Simmons earned her sales license and started working for Beazer Homes for five years. After the housing crisis in 2008, she redirected her career toward management and in 2011 co-founded Beacon Management Services. Beacon Management Services is a property management company specializing in community associations or homeowners associations (HOA). Beacon Management represents several different kinds of properties including HOAs, condominium associations, commercial properties, mixed-use developments and more. Beacon Management Services works in every major county throughout metro Atlanta from the urban core to the suburbs. Currently, Beacon Management Services is working with several well-known clients including Century Communities, Lennar Homes, D.R. Horton, Jim Jacobi, Walton Communities and Kolter Homes, to name a few. With experience not only with small-custom builders but also nationally-known companies, Beacon Management Services has the skills, reputation and experience to take on all types of clients. “Generally, we've gotten more and more builder business as the years have gone by and now we have quite a large portfolio of new homes and new home construction,” Simmons said. “We're busy with new construction and we're busy with condo development. There is a lot of that taking place in Midtown especially.” Currently, Beacon Management Services is managing over 35,000 units and was recently listed by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of the top 10 management companies for the fifth straight year. “We're really proud of the growth but it's been organized and controlled growth, it's not growth for growths sake,” Simmons said. “We want to do an excellent job for all of our customers and for our clients, so we just don't take any property unless we know we can do an exceptional job there.” With plenty of first-hand experience with builders, Beacon Management Services not only understands the sales and management side of the business but also the construction aspects as well. Because of this, it can better predict potential issues and take strides to solve them before they even arise. In addition, Beacon Management knows how to make every new homeowner feel welcome and at home in their new community. https://youtu.be/I9cR6IjqwaY   To learn more about Beacon Management Services, be sure to listen to the full interview above or visit www.beaconmanagementservices.com. Never miss an episode of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio! Subscribe to the podcast here. You can also get a re-cap of any past episode on the Radio page. Georgia Residential Mortgage Licensee, License #22564. NMLS ID #6606. Subject to borrower and property qualifications. Not all applicants will qualify. New American Funding and Beacon Management Services are not associated. Click here to view the terms and conditions of products mentioned during the show. Corporate office 14511 Myford Rd., Suite 100, Tustin, CA 92780. Phone: (800) 450-2010. (December/2020) New American Funding is a family-owned mortgage lender with a servicing portfolio of over 123,000 loans for $30.4 billion, 198 branches, and about 3,100 employees. The company offers several niche loan products and has made Inc. 5000's list of Fastest-Growing Companies in America six times.

In this episode we discuss working for a builder versus working with a builder.  The pros and cons and how lucrative this niche' can really be.  Residential builders such as Pulte Homes, Park Square homes, KB Homes, Lennar Homes and scores of others, in all price ranges.

We're getting the band back together! Dana Wheaton, Richie Fortunato, and Brian Baker get back to business. Dana Wheaton, who is a sales manager, has worn just about every hat in the business. There is not many people who have the same amount of knowledge in this industry than she does. Listen in to hear how she grew up in this business.Share with anyone you think would find value here.You can subscribe and follow this podcast here on YouTube and on any other podcast streaming service you prefer. After liking and sharing with friends, leave us a comment. We look forward to hearing from our listeners. Follow Enlisted Real Estate Podcast:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enlistedpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/enlistedpodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnlistedPodcastListen on various Podcast platforms:iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enlisted-real-estate-podcast/id1500287744Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SEJwTureW3x9mfSmDfHN4?si=IDZqApAfScCA6gvERV6PGwGoogle: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvNDI0MzAxNS9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVkSpreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/user/enlistedrealestatepodcast*********************Keller Williams Realty, Coldwell Banker, EXP Realty, La Rosa Realty, Watson Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, Weichert Realty**********************Park Square Homes, David Weekley Homes, Beazer Homes, Ryan Homes, Lennar Homes, KB Home, Ashton Woods, Pulte Homes, DR Horton, KHov, Dream Finder Homes, Taylor Morrison, Toll Brothers,

Listen to the insights about new construction in the #riverview area from a real estate professional that works for one of #tampabays biggest builders. #Lennar Homes . . .

Host Alex Sung is joined in studio by Mike Watkins with Lennar Homes and member of I AM KATY TX Networking.I AM KATY TX Networking is a professional networking group that connects those doing business in the Katy, TX and West Houston area. For more information on the organization visit:www.IAMKATYTX.orgwww.FB.com/IAMKATYTX

This week Kevin and I discuss the aftermath of the big Google event, covering the new devices, the focus on ambient computing, and changes to the Nest subscription and Works with Assistant programs. From there we cover a new smart lock backed by Lennar Homes and Walmart, a new light bulb from LIFX and more … Continue reading Episode 238: Google’s smart home vision explained

In this episode: Robb and Alex were interviewed by David Stauss from Ballard Spahr as the feature interview this week. News from: Chipotle, Amazon, Lennar, Lockstate, Red Canary, Secure64, Swimlane, Webroot and a lot more! Chipotle: Guac-ing away from Colorado Would you believe that this paragraph is the hardest thing to write each week? So... Something about Chipotle. Something about Lennar (and Amazon!). Something about low unemployment, Lockstate, Red Canary, Secure64 and others! Support us on Patreon! Fun swag available - all proceeds will directly support the Colorado = Security infrastructure. Come join us on the new Colorado = Security Slack channel to meet old and new friends. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. If you have any questions or comments, or any organizations or events we should highlight, contact Alex and Robb at info@colorado-security.com Local security news: Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel How legalized sports betting in Colorado could become a reality by 2019 Chipotle moving its headquarters out of Denver Colorado’s dropping unemployment rate plunges into uncharted waters Why Colorado joined in national “Operation Cryptosweep” to suss out fraudulent cryptocurrency offerings Alexa, what are you doing in my house? Lennar Homes is building Amazon’s digital assistant into all its new homes, including a subdivision in Aurora Denver places high on Best Cities for Young Entrepreneurs global list Colorado smart-lock company Lockstate lands funding for expansion Security Operations Lessons: What My Team Learned Building and Maturing a SOC - Red Canary Secure64- What Every Company Should Know (and Do) About Data Exfiltration Swimlane Announces New Orchestrator Application for the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework Webroot 17th Quarter of Double Digit Growth Job Openings: Ping Identity - Senior Security Analyst Ping Identity - Site Reliability Engineer - Security Operations Arrow Electronics - IAM Manager Webroot - Threat Research Analyst Red Canary | CIRT Team Raytheon - Cyber Automation Engineer MITRE, Cyber Security Engineer Western Union - IT Manager, Internal Audit Coalfire - Consultant, Penetration Tester Alchemy Security - Devops Engineer Upcoming Events: This Week and Next: NCC- Cyber Careers: What Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Should Know - 6/5 ISSA COS - Annual Cybersecurity & Technology Day at Fort Carson - 6/7-8 Women in Technology Conference - 6/8 Other Notable Upcoming Events Colorado Springs - Cyber Security Training & Technology Forum (CSTTF) - 8/22 View our events page for a full list of upcoming events * Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at carrrladams@gmail.com. Check out his other voice work here. * Intro and exit song: "The Language of Blame" by The Agrarians is licensed under CC BY 2.0

California is mandating new homes will have to be built with solar panels on them, and now Lennar Homes is building homes that are pre-wired to have Alexa compatibility. Is it a good idea to force people to have to use services they don't want when if they want to use them? What happens when the technology is outdated further down the road? Would you buy one of these homes?

The last couple of years have brought unparalleled technological innovation and ways to incorporate new technology into our lives and 2018 will be no different. Leading the charge for more technology-filled homes is Lennar Homes, the first builder in the world to feature Wi-Fi CERTFIED™ home designs. Holly Yaeger, area sales manager with Lennar Atlanta, […] The post Lennar Atlanta Sets the Standard for 2018’s Smart Home appeared first on Atlanta Real Estate Forum.

It’s time for your fall real estate market update. Just like this past spring and summer, inventory is low across the board. The market did slow down in August as families wrapped up vacations and went back to school. That slowdown can often transition into early September, so we do see the market pick up again in late September, October, and into Thanksgiving. So, if you are thinking of buying or selling a home, the market is still active during this key part of the season. We’d also like to touch on some new construction development that’s been going on lately. If you drive down County Road 42 in Prior Lake, you’ll see a lot of activity. Pulte Homes and Lennar Homes are clearing a lot of trees for new developments on the south side of 42. There will be single-family homes and townhomes. “The market does pick up again from late September.” Lennar and Summit Preserve will also be building single-family homes and townhomes. M/I Homes, formerly known as Hans Hagen, will also be building some properties around that 42 corridor. In Shakopee on County Road 16, Lennar is also building a lot of homes. We’re talking hundreds of lots. Although there is a lot of building going on, those properties are not included in our current inventory numbers. Next year though, you will see some big changes in inventory. There will be a lot of lots available and the market will be pretty competitive. All of that said, this actually could be a very good time to look at buying or building a home. The fall season is still a good time to be in the market. A lot of people are busy with their kids’ sports and activities. If that’s not taking up a lot of your time, then now is a good time to look at the homes that are available because you will have less competition. If you have any questions about our current market, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We would be happy to help you!