🏗️ Michelle’s $2.5M Vector Victory: Knowledge is Power

For those trying to build houses in Auckland, infrastructure and utilities are a massive issue especially when trying to do brownfield / in-fill developments.

These tend to be more economical housing by intensifying the land meaning the land cost per house is less so costs are less.

However, it has caused infrastructure and utility capacity issues AND opportunities for monopolies.

Here is a link to an interview with Michelle Hohepa where she saved her clients $2.5 million on connection costs through Dig Once.

This is not the only area where house connection money can be saved. In another task for another utility, a savings of $115,000 was made just by correcting an unreasonable calculation and emailing the provider.

If you know, you know. If you don’t you are gouged.

NETWORK with others, join the social networks, be informed.

Congratulations to Michelle… making a difference.

Listen from around 10 minutes in.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/2018994738/the-panel-with-niki-bezzant-and-ed-mcknight-part-2

About the author
Kirsty Merriman
For years I would plan houses, travel widely and observe communities. I also had the privilege of working for New Zealand's largest dairy company in both New Zealand and Malaysia. All the while supported by my husband and young daughter. After a while, our roles swapped and we moved to the Arabian Gulf. Meanwhile my passion for property and communities continued to simmer.

Along came COVID and had no choice but to pivot... in the words of Robert Frost, I looked for and "found the road less travelled by" and decided that maybe I could "make [a] the difference".

I look for to find insights and built a few of the houses that we need. This means a saleable house and a profitable and sustainable business.

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