# Boris Artiga

Texas operator. Land development run in-house end to end (sourcing, feasibility
and underwriting, capitalization, entitlements, horizontal and vertical
construction, finish and furnish, exit or lease-up and operations), a materials
materials importing (furniture, stone, tile, cabinets) with an installer network,
construction and project management, a brokerage, and custom software systems.
The site is a journal of the operation, filed by part of the operation.

## Pages

- [Home](https://borisartiga.com/): the latest journal entries, the operation in brief, how to get in touch
- [The long answer](https://borisartiga.com/story): the whole story, hotels to land, told the way it was learned
- [Journal](https://borisartiga.com/journal): the record, entry by entry
- [Materials](https://borisartiga.com/materials): Importing as one trade: furniture, stone, tile, cabinets. And the installer network that both buys from the operation and builds for it.
- [Construction](https://borisartiga.com/construction): Either chair: general contractor in-house, or hire one and project-manage above them. Hotels first, then homes, then ground-up.
- [Land](https://borisartiga.com/land): The full cycle, run in-house end to end: source, underwrite, capitalize, entitle, build, exit or operate. Eight steps, one owner of all eight.
- [Deals](https://borisartiga.com/deals): Capital structured project by project: bank debt, hard money, partner equity, operating income. A brokerage license keeps the transaction itself in-house.
- [Systems](https://borisartiga.com/systems): Every open business needs the same three things: customers finding it, work that doesn't leak, a story plainly told. Built around each one, every time.
- [Lessons](https://borisartiga.com/lessons): What the walls cost and what they taught. The convictions that run the place.
- [A name, a voice, a reason to be believed](https://borisartiga.com/journal/a-name-a-voice-a-reason-to-be-believed)
- [Lived numbers, not quoted ones](https://borisartiga.com/journal/lived-numbers-not-quoted-ones)
- [The exit is decided at underwriting](https://borisartiga.com/journal/the-exit-is-decided-at-underwriting)
- [Where projects actually leak](https://borisartiga.com/journal/where-projects-actually-leak)
- [Feasibility is supposed to say no](https://borisartiga.com/journal/feasibility-is-supposed-to-say-no)
- [Every customer is also capacity](https://borisartiga.com/journal/every-customer-is-also-capacity)
- [Hire the GC, or be the GC](https://borisartiga.com/journal/hire-the-gc-or-be-the-gc)
- [A container doesn't care what's inside it](https://borisartiga.com/journal/a-container-doesnt-care-whats-inside-it)
- [Not from a book, from the building](https://borisartiga.com/journal/not-from-a-book-from-the-building)
- [Pay for it forever, or learn it once](https://borisartiga.com/journal/pay-for-it-forever-or-learn-it-once)