Turquoise Era

Don't ever overlook the importance of this stage. The Design Process is where the magic comes from. 

My Dev Partner Jaydan and myself have the weekly meeting every Monday.  

Monday! Best Day Ever, if you want to make it that way.

I start my Monday with an early surf at Angourire of one of the other Yamba Breaks that may be turning on. I then tend to end up on site to check over progress and anyone that may need a little assistance. But after that, we are on the golf course for nine holes, a few Byrons and then talk it up time.

This is where the magic really happens. Future sites, plans, developments, future life planning for us and everyone connected with us. When you are putting a future there, then you are in control of it and where you are heading.

The Dream Factor plays a huge role and through planning, you get the opportunity to pur your dreams into reality.

Just this week we sat down with our Architect and had a great strategy on Stage II, which you will see below. This gave us both a great revitalisation in where we are heading and also in what we actually have in our hands. Something that before this time we did not have.

We now have a great future and it is only the beginning. It all came about through planning. 

There are so many sayings that revolve around this simple but powerfully pivotal point.

"If you fail to plan, then you are actually planning to fail!"

I think that this pretty well sums it up. Any plan. Not matter how vague is better than no plan.

A good plan is irresistible.

Hope to hear from you and what you are planning for your life.

Mike King,

Turquoise Era Team Member.

I very distinctly remember this one time that I was in the school library, just browsing through encyclopaedias. Viewing different images from around the world and searching for ideas and a path for the future. I was just looking. 17 years old and a whole lot of future there in front of me. I felt that the images would give me a much better concept of what others are doing, rather than just listening to what the teachers were trying to tell me.

"You could be an accountant." "Perhaps you could get an Art Degree!"  "Or maybe you could be a teacher."

But how could you teach someone unless you hadn't experienced it yourself. 

This was my observation. 99% of the teachers have never left school. They go to school, then go to Teacher's College to learn how to be a teacher, then become a teacher and continue "At School!"

Interesting. But had they ever really worked out there in the real world. Laid some bricks! Made some sales! Build a development!

Pretty well no. But some of then did have some good stories of life and travel.

For me, it just comes back to the Renderings. I pretty well found out that if you are able to draw something up and lay it all down there in front of you, then this is something that might just possibly be able to be achieved. 

This is a philosophy of life that can work in so many area. A picture really does paint a thousand words. But I think that when you are painting a picture of something that you want to build in the future, it paints a million.

Creating your Architectural Plans and then taking it that next step and creating the renderings, this truly is where the magic comes from.

All that I can say is to follow the process and enjoy the magic. Sketch out a draft of the development you would like to build. Book in to see the Architect and define the idea with precision. Take it that next step and complete the renderings. Then take a small step back and watch the magic start to happen.

Pretty cool as it all comes from you.

We'd love to hear some of your crazy ideas of your own development and your future. 

This can be a tough one. Not so much in getting the money to build your development, but in actually understanding the process of a construction loan and how to use the banks money and not yours to build your site.

When you understand this process and understand what the lenders are in business for, it can become a complete game changer. You see when it comes to property developments, the banks are not in the business of lending money. 

What?

That's right. They are in the business of completing projects. A new concept, but think of the lender in this fashion. They are your partner and no different than you, they will only be paid when the project is complete. 

Understanding this will change the way that you operate and even give you a more pan determined view in that you are now looking for a partner that will qualify to your needs. Not the other way around.

Looking deeper into this, lending money is no different than any of the other components of building a development. You simply have to understand the steps that have to be taken and the terms that will be used when it comes to preparing and submitting an application. 

When you completely understand this process, you will know that an application is approved before it is submitted. In fact, you will purely be submitting it with confidence as this is one of the development steps that you will become quite familiar with.

Plus, it is all a part of the excitement of the game.

• How much will you personally have to invest in any development?

• What is the ratio to the value of the development that the lender with fund to you?

• How to choose the best lenders/partners for your project?

• How do you calculate the profit margin of your project?

• What are the hidden costs?

• How do you manage to pay yourself through the whole process, even before it is complete?

• How will you get an accurate quotation for the complete construction?

• Will the valuer see the true value of the estate?

• And what do you say when the lender asks you, "What is your skin in the game?"

This and many other questions, you will find the answers to and become very fluent in the language of development finance.  It is not something that you cannot learn or that is not available to you. 

It is and you can learn this powerful subject. It can set you free.

The Construction Phase can be one of the most exciting stages of any development. Seeing simple milestones come to like gives you proof that you dreams and planning are now becoming a reality.

This simple stage of filling the block retaining wall with a core fill block mix is just another day on the tools for the guys. But as a developer, this is the manifestation and proof of what you planned along all the time.

The Coastal Concreting supervisor once said to me, "Mike, I have never seen guys get so excited over a block wall before!"

We sure were excited. Any time you see your dreams becoming a reality, it really is something else. This is one of the rewards of being a developer.

Contact us today and we can help you also experience this life changing phenomena. What we have coined as a "Turquoise Moment!"