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Pre-Development Cost Estimator

What it actually costs to get from raw land to ready-to-build. Entitlements, civil, A&E, financing carry, the contingency you'll wish you'd carried — modeled the way Fort + Home models its own pre-development on $25M+ projects.

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What's inside

  • Pre-development line items, sequenced. Land due diligence through entitlements through civil — the order you'll actually spend the money in, not a flat checklist.
  • Financing carry + contingency stack. Interest reserve, soft-cost contingency, hard-cost contingency, owner's reserve — modeled separately so you can see what's actually at risk.
  • AI Operator Add-On. Prompt PDF that runs your numbers against benchmarks from real projects and flags the line items that look optimistic.

Who built this

Jeff Zimmerman runs Fort + Home — a vertically integrated housing platform in Western Colorado. The model is built off the actual pre-development workbooks Fort + Home uses on its own ground-up developments, scrubbed of project-specific data.

What you'll get in your inbox

One welcome email with the download. Then a short series — operator stories tied to the tool, real numbers from real builds, and one quick question so we can send you the right kind of follow-up. Unsubscribe any time.

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