Your land as your equity: the questions a partner or lender will ask
Lesson 3 of 6 · From holding to building
1 · Learn the move · Fact-check list
The moment a holder proposes to contribute land rather than cash to a development, the land itself becomes a due-diligence file, and it is rarely in the shape that assumes. A lender or a partner does not ask what the parcel is worth first; they ask whether it is clean to contribute at all: is title held free of debt or does a note need to be satisfied or subordinated, does the entity's operating agreement even permit a capital contribution of property, does the current-use enrollment survive a transfer or a change of use, do any easements or reservations limit what gets built, and is there a related-party wrinkle a lender's counsel will flag. A model asked to prepare for that conversation will draft a value narrative. The discipline instead is a fact-check list of exactly what the file can prove today, source by source, with every question the file cannot answer routed to a CPA, land-use counsel or securities counsel, and never a number in the mix, because stating what the land is worth here is not this lesson's job and is not this model's to do.
Build a fact-check list of what a partner or lender would ask about this parcel as a contribution, not a purchase: title and any debt against it, the operating agreement's rules on capital contributions, what the enrollment does on a transfer or change of use, easements and reservations, and any related-party issue. Source every answer or mark it [NEEDS: ...]. State no value.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You hold 14.3 acres [deed] in Marl Ridge Farms LLC in Dunmere County, enrolled in current use, with a small note against it from when you bought it, held with your brother as the LLC's two members. A regional builder has said he could bring a construction lender if you contribute the land to a new joint entity. You have pasted the deed, the note and deed of trust, the LLC's operating agreement, and the current-use enrollment record. Write the prompt that turns those into the fact-check list before you say yes to anything.
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