Real Estate Addicts

Marc Savatsky, Ray Hurteau, and Dan Rubin open up and discuss their own deals, budgets, and mistakes every Tuesday.Not guru content. The stuff that decides whether a project makes money: what a triple decker really costs to build now, the retroactive Newton tax bill that landed on unsuspecting condo buyers, the helical pile surprise that cut a deal's IRR from 70% to 40%, the eleven-week-old demo company doing $6K a week against a $20K burn. They read their own numbers on air, including the ugly ones.A typical week is some mix of: a breakdown of one of their active projects (an 1874 adaptive reuse in Amesbury, a Dorchester three-family held fourteen years, a waste and demo business), a guest who does one thing extremely well which include zoning attorneys, architects, labor lawyers, energy consultants and brokers. Ray's Multifamily Minute on the news that actually moves the needle, and a round of Overrated / Underrated / Appropriately Rated.Heavy on Greater Boston and New England,

Real Estate Addicts is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 153 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 83.

Unknown Host hosts Real Estate Addicts, a business show with 153 episodes published.

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  Episode #153

  #153 - Factory-Built ADUs, Light Gauge Steel and the Massachusetts Housing Shortage w/ Steve Vettori

  Oct 6, 202651 min

  Steve Vettori went from 15 years of enterprise software sales to developing the 34-unit Beacon in Newton, and now he runs MassDwell, a factory that builds accessory dwelling units out of light gauge steel. He walks Marc, Ray, and Dan through why he switched framing systems, how the factory turns out about one 560-square-foot module a day, and why his crews are on a customer's lot for roughly 30 days instead of seven or eight months. They get into the $350 per square foot price, the 900-square-foot by-right ADU law, why septic is the real bottleneck, and a Sudbury town project that only worked off site. If you own land in Massachusetts and have wondered whether an ADU pencils or what it costs, start here.

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  Episode #152

  #152 - Make Building Easier w/ Brian Vizarreta

  Sep 29, 202628 min

  Brian Vizarreta has been acquired twice in four years, from StructionSite to DroneDeploy to Procore, and he came back to explain what all that money is actually betting on. He and Marc, Ray, and Dan get into facade mapping that finally settled a four-fix water leak, why the most valuable thing to ask an AI is what isn't there rather than what is, and whether any of this makes sense for someone building six-unit multifamily instead of $300 million towers.

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  Episode #151

  #151 - Urban Development and Starting Your Own Site Work Business w/ Nicolas Beaujean

  Sep 15, 202648 min

  Nick's first deal was a $50,000 Dorchester lot bought with no attorney, no due diligence, and a 13% hard money loan. Plus a deed restriction that took three years to kill. He walks Marc, Ray, and Dan through the code interpretation that turned $140,000 of steel into a $300,000 line item, why two "at cost" GC partnerships ended up in court, and how he found 40 to 50 percent margins hiding in site work and foundations.

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  Episode #150

  #150 - Business Lab Featuring Circa Demo and Disposal w/ Special Guest Ricky Beliveau

  Sep 8, 202633 min

  Eleven weeks into a new demo and disposal company, a text from the business partner laid it out plainly: $70,700 in revenue, about $6,000 a week, against a burn rate that requires $20,000 just to hold even. In this first Real Estate Addicts Business Lab, the hot seat opens the books on Circa Demo. The transfer station lines eating billable hours, the overtime nobody planned for, and the $15 hourly margin left after payroll taxes and an $80,000 truck. Listen in as Ricky Beliveau is back as we pull back the curtain on Marc's latest venture.

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  Episode #149

  #149 - Shooting the Shit w/ Ricky Beliveau

  Sep 1, 202654 min

  When a two-and-a-half-acre Weston lot landed in Ricky's inbox at a price he could hardly believe, his first thought wasn't excitement, it was "why am I getting screwed here?" In his fourth appearance he walks through the two-week due diligence sprint that followed, from the zoning attorney and the wetland flags to the 1943 setback rules that determine whether the whole thing pencils, plus what's quietly killing Boston projects and the helical pile surprise that cut one deal's IRR from 70% to 40%.

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