Private Real Estate Development Consulting
BuildUp works hands-on with capital-ready investors and active developers to choose better deals, structure financing, control construction, and turn one successful project into a repeatable development business.
Watch this before you apply.
How the engagement works, the four decisions that make or break a development, and whether BuildUp is the right fit for your first or next project. Then complete the three-minute application directly below.
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Arthur, co-founder of BuildUp · 9 years in development · 1,000+ lots developed · 262 doors built and sold
The Application
BuildUp is built around real projects, so we only take on a limited number of new clients at a time. Tell us where you are, what you want to build, and how soon you are ready to move. If your capital, timeline, and goals are a fit, you will be invited to book a 60-minute Development Strategy Session with our team.
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BuildUp Client Application
Tell us where you are, what you want to build, and how soon you are ready to move.
Takes about 3 minutes · Every application is reviewed
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Every application is reviewed by our team. Your information stays private. There is no obligation to move forward.
Why BuildUp
You already understand the opportunity. The problem is everything that happens between saying "I should develop" and completing a project that actually works.
One weak decision can erase the upside from everything else. For a first-time developer, that uncertainty creates delay. For an active developer, it creates inconsistency and makes every new project feel like starting over.
The answer is not more information. It is having experienced people review the major decisions before your money is committed.
Your project. Your decisions. Experienced eyes before you sign.
The Engagement
You will have access to the training, tools, community, and live calls needed to understand the development process. But you are not paying to sit inside a course and figure everything out alone.
The core of the BuildUp engagement is hands-on support around the project in front of you:
Unlimited one-on-one calls with BuildUp's certified development coaches. Bring the deal, the numbers, the quote, the contract, or the problem. We help you determine the next move.
A private group chat with Arthur and Ruben, plus a live weekly call with Arthur. You are not six layers away from the people who built the process.
Four additional live weekly calls with the BuildUp coaching team. Get answers, review progress, and keep the project moving instead of losing another month.
Qualified clients can work through BuildUp's approved lending partnership. Understand the financing structure before the project depends on it.
Work alongside clients who are finding land, securing financing, hiring builders, and completing projects right now. Not theory. Real deals and real execution.
The BuildUp Framework
Most development losses trace back to a small number of decisions made too early, too quickly, or with incomplete information. Before you commit your capital, we help you pressure-test the four decisions that control the project.
A cheap lot can become very expensive when the zoning, utilities, soil, access, topography, or exit value are wrong. We help you review the opportunity before your money is trapped inside it.
A deal can look profitable until soft costs, financing costs, holding costs, contingencies, and delays are included. We help you underwrite the real project, not the optimistic version of it.
The wrong structure can destroy the profit in an otherwise strong deal. We help qualified clients understand and structure the funding path before they are committed to the wrong terms.
A vague scope, weak contract, bad draw schedule, or wrong builder turns a strong opportunity into months of delays and unexpected costs. We help you control the build before the first draw is released.
You still make every decision. You just stop making six-figure decisions alone.
For Active Developers
If you already own land, have a project in motion, or have completed a build, we do not send you back to square one. We start with the deals, team, capital, and experience you already have. Then we identify where growth is getting stuck:
The goal is to make the next project more controlled, more predictable, and less dependent on you personally holding everything together.
Build the project. Strengthen the process. Repeat it with more control.
The Process
Three minutes on your experience, available capital, timeline, and goals. Every application is reviewed against current client capacity and the type of project you want to pursue.
If there is a fit, you book a 60-minute Development Strategy Session. We look at your position, your market, your capital, and your first or next project, and identify the biggest gap between where you are and where you want to go.
If we agree BuildUp is the right fit, we work through the project with you. Land, underwriting, financing, builder, breaking ground. Then we turn what worked into a stronger process for the next project.
For Qualified First-Time Developers
The guarantee is designed to protect serious clients who are ready to execute:
Meet the written conditions, and if you have not broken ground on your first home within 12 months, BuildUp refunds your consulting fee.
Full eligibility requirements and written guarantee terms are reviewed before enrollment.
The goal is not to earn a refund. The goal is to break ground.
A Deliberate Filter
This may be for you if
This is not for you if
The People Behind BuildUp
Arthur and Ruben are active real estate developers and the co-founders of BuildUp. Over the last nine years they have developed more than 1,000 residential, commercial, and industrial lots and built and sold 262 doors. BuildUp clients have now worked on another 284 doors and counting.
Before building the process, Arthur made a $50,000 mistake in development. Then he made a $100,000 mistake. He paid for both himself. BuildUp exists so serious developers can get experienced judgment before paying that tuition through their own projects.
You are not hiring people who studied development from the outside. You are working with people who have lived through the decisions you are about to make.
Before You Apply
No. We work with capital-ready first-time developers as well as active investors, builders, and developers who want to improve their deal selection, financing, team, and execution. If you already have land or a project in motion, bring it to the Strategy Session.
BuildUp includes curriculum, tools, community access, and live group support. But the engagement is not built around leaving you alone with videos. The core is hands-on support around your actual project through one-on-one calls, live sessions, direct access, and project-specific guidance.
You should have at least $50,000 liquid or clear access to the capital required for your project. Your total requirement will depend on the market, project, financing structure, credit, and lender approval.
Yes. Those are often some of the most productive Strategy Sessions, because we can begin with a real opportunity instead of a hypothetical one. We will review where the project stands and identify what needs to happen next.
Qualified clients may be able to work through BuildUp's approved lending partner. Approval and terms depend on the borrower, credit, available capital, project, market, and lender underwriting. We cannot guarantee that every applicant will qualify for financing.
The consulting fee is discussed during the Development Strategy Session, after we review your application and confirm that BuildUp can help with your situation. This is a premium, hands-on consulting engagement, not a low-cost course.
Qualified first-time developers who complete the required work, remain active, maintain the required qualifications, and follow the approved BuildUp process are protected by the written 12-month break-ground guarantee. If all written conditions are met and you have not broken ground within 12 months, your consulting fee is refunded. The complete terms are reviewed before enrollment.
Our team reviews your experience, capital, timeline, and goals. If your application is approved, you will be invited to choose a time for a 60-minute Development Strategy Session. If you are not ready for the consulting engagement yet, we will direct you to the best free training to help you prepare.
Applications Currently Open
If you already know development is the move, the only question is how you want to learn it. Through trial and error, or with experienced people reviewing the major decisions beside you.
Start My ApplicationTakes approximately three minutes · Every application is reviewed · Applications may close when current client capacity is filled
