Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Stop Wasting Time & Money: Smart Real Estate Development Secrets! #shorts

13 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Tommy Dobczyk warns developers not to raise capital for a first fund without planning the next two properties. Skipping that groundwork forces you into debt for later deals because equity is already allocated, which kills the property-management side of your business.

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Are you in the deal room? I don't, I don't want to push anything away or push anything aside, but I'm also not interested in wasting a bunch of breath and hot air on, we're not going to do it your way, you have to do it ours. And it's very basic to understand if you raise money for the first fund and you don't do any of the groundwork on the other two properties, when you go to raise money for those, you just disqualified them as, as you have to find debt to do that now instead of using equity because it's already been put into use. He's literally canceling the property management side of this by doing it the way he wants to.