What Does It Take to Become a Real Estate Developer? | Brian Barbuto

Podcast: Rental Property Owner & Real Estate Investor Podcast · Rental Property Owners Association (RPOA) with Brian Hamrick

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

Becoming a real estate developer looks simple from the outside and almost never is. Brian Barbuto decided at 20 that he would develop real estate, bought land for 30 condominiums, and watched interest rates run to the mid twenties during his first construction loan. Nearly fifty years later he has built subdivisions, industrial parks and master planned communities across California, sold a company, gone bankrupt, and rebuilt. In this episode he walks through how land entitlement actually creates value, the guarantee structure that wiped him out, and where he thinks AI helps a developer and where it cannot. About...