I did it twice, from opposite sides of the table.

One is a story. Two is a method.

Jonathan Norton

This is what I actually do.

Not a stock photo, not a rented office. That is one of mine — standing in it, before the tenant moved in.

I am a commercial real estate investor in upstate New York. I placed roughly $45 million in debt financing in eighteen months for an industrial real estate company, then built a portfolio of my own from a $100,000 line of credit against my house.

Everything on this site comes out of deals I actually closed, including the one that cost me twelve thousand dollars because I skipped a fifteen-hundred-dollar report.

Receipts, since you asked

Everything on this site is checkable.

I make some claims on here. Here is the evidence for the ones that sound made up.

Jonathan Norton with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase — **Two-time national achiever at JPMorgan.** That is the kind of line people put on a sales page and nobody checks. **So here is the photo with Jamie Dimon**, taken at the recognition event.

A blue steel commercial building with multiple drive-in bays — **A national tenant, in a blue steel building.** Nobody is putting this on a magazine cover. **The lease is signed by a company with real credit, and it pays every month** — which is the only thing I need it to do.

Aerial view of commercial buildings and site work on a development parcel — **The unglamorous part.** Dirt, a skid steer, and a building going up to a tenant's specification. **This is what the method looks like from four hundred feet** — and it started with a phone call to a company that needed space.

Four deals with all the numbers — including the one that cost me twelve thousand dollars — are on the case studies page. Free, no email.

2×

National achiever at JPMorgan

$45M

Debt placed in 18 months

$8.9M

Portfolio built for myself

$100K

The line of credit it started from

See the deals → The package