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Go: Up to 80% of joint venture deals fail from excessive closeness
“You have to be very, very careful who you invest with and do JVs with, because I'd say, 80% of the time, maybe 70% of the time, those deals go bad because you have too much, there's too much closeness for all the reasons we were talking about earlier.”
Go: Active co-development project will exit at $20 million
“The one that I'm actively working right now is going to have an exit of twenty million.”
Go: Developments succeed most with neutral palettes and unexpected accent touches
“I find that the most success we have is when it is Very clean, very on trend, timelessly on trend in terms of finishes and palette as a whole. But then there's fun, interesting, unexpected touches.”
Go: Spent $100,000 on slab stone for her primary bathroom shower
“We spent a 100,000 dollars on the shower slab.”
Go: Price-per-square-foot cannot be extrapolated without comparable local sales
“Price per square foot, and this is really important, is a data point metric. It is not an end-all be-all by any means, because there is a principle called diminishing returns that is very real. Like, if you can't find another house that's sold for ten million …”
Go: No client has ever lost money on properties she sold
“I have never had a client lose money. They've always made money on anything I've ever sold them. Most of them, a lot of money. Like, my clients have made on single family spec for sure hundreds of millions of dollars, right?”
Go: Passed on 800-square-foot ADU on $20M project to maintain privacy
“On the project that we're doing that we're targeting twenty million, we had an option to maximize square footage and build an ADU. And I said, it's gonna completely invade your backyard, and it's going to ruin that kind of feeling of having this estate-style p…”