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Last Friday I almost closed a chapter. A terrible project. Lost lots of money. And of course… I’m looking now for the next. Many people out there play not to lose. But this is a losing strategy. You learn a lot when you lose. You barely know what went really well and why when you just win. It can be anything. But when you lose, you learn. Really well. You adjust. You repeat. You increase the odds for next time. When investing in real estate I see this trend all the time. Invest. It didn’t go...
When you are doing real estate, there are always mistakes. That point that is not well located. The m2 in the council register that does not match reality… Things like that. But you’re more or less alone on this or with your small team. You assume that in multibillion dollar projects, things get more organized. You know. PPPs. So complex. So sophisticated. And… So… human. Yeah, because humans, not banks, not machines, not financial models… humans deliver. And humans “la joden”… or screw it...
Once upon a PPP… A government agency somewhere on this planet (let’s keep names confidential to protect the not-so-innocent) was closing a deal on a massive infrastructure PPP. As usualll… Billions involved. Advisors everywhere. Very expensive ones, of course. Lawyers billing by the minute. Months of negotiations. Taxpayers forgetting about their money. Everything was perfect. Absolutely perfect. Until it wasn’t. Well… in the final version of the contract, someone — probably after too much...