25-Year-Old Real Estate Developer Building 20 DUPLEXES! 

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@@donovana.6177 good work smart and had faith to do work

@donovona.6177. Any updates on this venture? Great information! 👍🏽

Thanks, Please subscribe. I’m dropping a follow-up interview with Donovan this week.

Too many cooks in the kitchen.

Most of the men I know are doing this and More Men are Moving on from the female perspective.❤

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Hi Derrick I am looking for Single Family Land Developers in GA and in Texas I have Land That needs to be Developed

A 10 unit duplex? Gotta be a mistype right

@@kryptonj8 meant 10 duplexes

Congratulations on your achievement

I learned from your duplex video when I was starting out!!

@@donovana.6177 no way! That's fantastic! Makes me incredibly happy to see people executing on the knowledge we share. Congratulations on your success!

Spread the word because knowledge is power. Most people don’t know that anyone with the drive can do what he is doing.

Why don't you do it and allow your kids to watch YOUR progress?

@@yungbfresh1 we are working on it, we're trough the process of getting a heloc to buy our second property.

OUR FIRST FAMILY BLACK MALE MEETING IS IN TWO WEEKS!!! I JUST BOOKED IT BASED OFF OF THISSS VIDEO I JUSTED WATCHEDD!!!!NO EXCUSESSS!!!!..BECAUSE THESE MEN ARE GONNA BUILD WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT!!!!!!!!!!!...NO FAILURES!!!..NOT IN MY FAMILY!!!!!!!.......IF THIS 25 YEAR OLD YOUNG MAN WITH NO EXPERIENCE AND NO MONEY IS OUT HERE DOING IT THEN THERE ARE NO EXCUSESSSS!!!!..NOT ONE!!!!

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As form of restitution for all of the over 1,200 Freedmen's townships that were burned down and bombed, native Blacks or Freedmen should not have to look for loans or apply for any, when the federal money already belongs to us by federal birthright and it is what we are OWED. Freedmen's reparations and no more of our federal funding going to black people or mixed race who are not descendants of United states abolition and are not focused on prioritization of LINEAGE, Freedmen's historic preservation, or building new Freedmen's districts like how there are stupid and now pointless Chinatowns all over the place... Freedmen have unique federal claims here and not all "black success" is the same. Foreign background having blacks or mixed race with families from abroad do not have the same federal claims and entitlements and their families don't have the same issues to deal with. If this man is not one of the Freedmen then he is not one of my people and if he is one of the Freedmen then he possibly had financing help. What irks me is how our people are not trying to raise the money ourselves. Screw a loan, that could take decades to pay off!!! We have enough debt!! We need to raise our own money!

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I’m 33 I haven’t started yet I’m working on my credit now it’s in the 740 just trying to see which route to take and I been with Navy Federal for 3 years

@@lashaddavid55 Hi, I help people buy their first 4-plex or 8-plex brand new builds for pre-sale with low capital entry

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Donavan did end up renting this duplex out.

I’m dropping a follow up video with him soon!

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Go for it!

Being born in Minnesota doesn't make him one of the U.S. freed slaves by lineage/heritage. Is he from a FOREIGN FAMILY BACKGROUND who just HAPPENED to have been born here? And is his mother even "black"? Or is he another half breed?? Is he racially black and part of the Freedmen's cultural heritage/lineage?? If not then he is an ANCHOR BABY, PERIOD. If he is not an anchor baby then it would help MORE if he was telling all of these black males and so called biracial bastard mixed males to stop chasing bitches who aren't black and focus on building up new housing and stores for our people like they were supposed to have done more than fifty years ago. This is what the Civil rights movement was really supposed to have been about instead of forcing all ethnic groups of white people to integrate and obsessing over legalized miscegenation. The fact that a 25, now 26 year old had to step up to the plate and do some stuff like this goes to show that the males over thirty five, over forty and over FIFTY FAILED THE PEOPLE AS A WHOLE HERE IN AMERICA and that goes for these disrespectful and arrogant black immigrants who won't stop moving into historic Freedmen's neighborhoods opening Caribbean and African restaurants and cultural centers. They did this shit to us all across the country and refuse to leave our districts.. we are in need of whole new districts that will be under protected covenants. When we were under separate but equal laws our idiotic forbears gave up our advantage and ruined the culture, period!! I had already started doing skilled trades work younger than this dude in Arizona and I am a woman so this doesn't fascinate me and neither do people with Latin sounding surnames who mistreated me when I was training in this line of work. Oh and if these so called Black developers are not talking about communities that are not strictly for American freed slaves and where I don't have to see anymore ugly super whitewashed half breeds, anymore meth or heroin users with black dudes, and no more crack heads then I don't want to hear it!! If the new complexes and neighborhoods are still bringing in white Mexicans, Caucasians and other white supremacists then I don't want to hear about it!! I want the same neighborhood exclusivity that Italians, Chinese and other politically protected groups have!!

@@buildingwealthwhileblack What would also help is making sure that all of these black and biracial immigrants who won't stop invading Freedmen's neighborhoods and districts across the nation start getting questioned and dealt with legally and politically, that they are ALL uprooted from our United States freed slave enclaves and the males from those foreign black nation groups are heavily scrutinized for pushing further immigration and ostracized for not building up and cleaning up their villages abroad and refusing to return gone, refusing to stay out of Freedmen's federal claims discussions and also staying the fuck out of black wall street conversations that has nothing to do with foreigners. This one man is not going to be enough to fix all housing injustices happening against United States freed slaves across the country in both rental and home buying and nothing is being said about reclamation of homes that were stolen from Freedmen either. That is what I am focused on. No disrespect to this man for trying but until I see my demands being met for Freedmen then we are still by majority of us stuck at a standstill. And until I see discussion from black men and so called half black males about assembling building teams nationwide, stopping all of this stupid ass marching and protesting, stop fucking making making of these ugly half breeds and "new white" children and making sure that our new housing is not "amalgamated" or whitewashed and there are no dickheads or sneaky black females laid up with rednecks, migrants with no papers, or other outsiders then I don't want to hear it. I want exclusivity and priority put upon native U.S. Blacks or no more talks about "excellence" period until those problems are solved with permanent solutions.

In this scenario, the buyer would have to come up with the $20K out of pocket if the house doesn’t appraise for $300K.

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@@1bluegreen2 watch the follow up interviews for more information about Donovan.

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That’s actually the plan! Want to keep about half

Which part of NC? Im a realtor here in Charlotte

@@WandoTheMachine I’m building in Lenoir County, Johnston and Lee County

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Donovan sells the duplex, not each individual units.

@@buildingwealthwhileblack got it, thanks

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That's funny!

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Good question

He got the plans from the builder of the first duplex he purchased that he is living in.

Fiverr has cheap blueprints. It's more to it than just going on there and buying blueprints but it'll get you going in the right direction

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No, sir, at least not in Houston, Texas

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Nah just keep looking or go outside ATL or to NC or FL nearby

Houston Texas has very laxed zoning laws. Unfortunately I do not know the laws in your city.

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In Texas no a builders license is not needed. If you have land you can build on it with blueprints and a permit

If you have land owned free and clear in Texas I know a company that will finance your build

He saved up his capital from petroleum engineering and partnered with someone who had the money while he did the designs, etc.

@@michaelmcwhirter thanks! So he had a good amount of money to partner with ahead of time. Do you know if he had developing experience prior?

@@AberrantArt I think he may of had a nest egg saved up anywhere in the ballpark of $10k-$50k, varying wildly depending on how he saved while working at his fuels job. So that would probably be some of his down payment to buy his first duplex. He said he had no experience prior and had to learn everything as he went along. He bootstrapped the entire process as he went along. Definitely not for the faint of heart because one wrong move and you have a mess of problems! Haha but it is possible still! (That's currently what I am doing now) But that's the info I got. I hope that helps! 💪

@michaelmcwhirter definitely helps! I've got about 30k of my life savings that I want to try and get a return on. It would be awesome to do a new build, but I think it would require a few years of classes to learn how to properly build a house. Then an extreme amount of luck finding the right funding partner.

Donovan used the builder from the duplex that he purchased as his primary residence.

Donovan was inspired to develop duplexes because the first home he purchased was a duplex where he rented out the other side. He didn't move into any other duplexes he built.

In Texas there isn’t no mandatory license to become a builder

@@buildingwealthwhileblack so it means anyone can build a house by themselves without any approved developers, they'll just hire labour right!

@@buildingwealthwhileblack do we need to attend any college

@@Musalman.279no developer would recommend building your first home without help from someone who has experience. But it is possible to do it on without degree or license. The best approach is partner with someone who has experience or get a mentor to help you on your first few builds