06/01/2026
What you need to know about those 1st 3 builds 👇
You’ll underestimate timelines.
Miss things in your budget.
Learn hard lessons about contractors, cities, lenders, and underwriting.
That’s normal.
The goal early on isn’t perfection.
It’s building experience, pattern recognition, and confidence project by project. 🤠
Every deal should teach you something that makes the NEXT deal stronger.
The truth is, you do NOT need a fancy degree to become a developer.
You need the willingness to take the first step, adapt when things don’t go perfectly, learn from your mistakes, and keep moving forward anyway. 💛
You may not be paying some university tuition, but if you treat your first few builds like your education, those lessons will shape the way you approach every deal after that.
I’m Katie 👋 I teach simple frameworks for real estate redevelopment strategies like build to rent or build to sell 🏗️, so you can confidently build properties that create wealth for you AND housing options in your community.