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Hi all,
I'm meeting with one of the best real estate developers in my city for lunch this week. He has developed some of the nicest residential buildings in my city and I have been following his work (and been a fan) for some time.
I "met" him a couple of years ago when he was looking for a project manager and I was living half way across the country. I sent him my resume and he responded, but turned out he was doing more of an "exploratory" candidate search, and at that point I wasn't prepared to move for the opportunity.
Now I find myself living in the same city as he is and I've stalked him (ok, just politely emailed and "pinged" him from time to time) and he suggested we set up a lunch.
Now, with the market in the tank and no new multifamily residential building going on in my city (and probably won't be for the next 2-3 years) I'm not sure how to approach this meeting.
Part of my PLAN is to leverage my real estate development skills and form a partnership with an older developer who would partner with me and let me essentially run the firm day to day and be the "big picture" and relationship guy who leverages his experience and uses me for my hustle, talent, etc. A lot of the successful guys I've worked with (and for) got to lead small firms this way. This is the #1 guy in my city I'd want to do this with.
My goal is for him to leave the meeting thinking, "Wow, Sid23 is a smart, ambitious guy and is someone I'd love to have work for/with me." Now, if there was a job/opportunity to be had, I'd go for it and I feel like I'd know what to do. But I want to seem like I "get it" and not come on too strong looking for something (a job, a partnership) that probably doesn't have any reason to exist right now.
Any ideas on how to best handle / approach this meeting? Questions to ask?
One idea I have is that I know he is doing a lot of work with the government regarding transit oriented development (planning - probably for free - thinking he'll get some deals when people start building again) and that I would flat out tell him I want to work with him and would be willing to help him with research or anything else right now (for free of course).
Thoughts?
(Normally, these types of meeting are my strong suit, but I am really nervous. I really look up to and admire this guy).
THANKS!
I'm meeting with one of the best real estate developers in my city for lunch this week. He has developed some of the nicest residential buildings in my city and I have been following his work (and been a fan) for some time.
I "met" him a couple of years ago when he was looking for a project manager and I was living half way across the country. I sent him my resume and he responded, but turned out he was doing more of an "exploratory" candidate search, and at that point I wasn't prepared to move for the opportunity.
Now I find myself living in the same city as he is and I've stalked him (ok, just politely emailed and "pinged" him from time to time) and he suggested we set up a lunch.
Now, with the market in the tank and no new multifamily residential building going on in my city (and probably won't be for the next 2-3 years) I'm not sure how to approach this meeting.
Part of my PLAN is to leverage my real estate development skills and form a partnership with an older developer who would partner with me and let me essentially run the firm day to day and be the "big picture" and relationship guy who leverages his experience and uses me for my hustle, talent, etc. A lot of the successful guys I've worked with (and for) got to lead small firms this way. This is the #1 guy in my city I'd want to do this with.
My goal is for him to leave the meeting thinking, "Wow, Sid23 is a smart, ambitious guy and is someone I'd love to have work for/with me." Now, if there was a job/opportunity to be had, I'd go for it and I feel like I'd know what to do. But I want to seem like I "get it" and not come on too strong looking for something (a job, a partnership) that probably doesn't have any reason to exist right now.
Any ideas on how to best handle / approach this meeting? Questions to ask?
One idea I have is that I know he is doing a lot of work with the government regarding transit oriented development (planning - probably for free - thinking he'll get some deals when people start building again) and that I would flat out tell him I want to work with him and would be willing to help him with research or anything else right now (for free of course).
Thoughts?
(Normally, these types of meeting are my strong suit, but I am really nervous. I really look up to and admire this guy).
THANKS!
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