The Jack Bosch Show 128: Land Entitlements: 10X Your Profit Per Deal with Cody Bjugan // The Jack Bosch Show
Dec 18, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Cody Bjugan, a land entitlement and development expert, reveals how to elevate your land investment strategy. He breaks down the process of securing approvals for raw land, explaining how this can lead to profits of $10K to $100K per lot with no construction required. Cody shares insights on managing local politics, forming builder relationships, and the importance of creating win-win offers with landowners. He also discusses lessons learned from the 2008 recession and scaling his business using technology.
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Drop Ego; Build Win-Wins To Pass Projects
- Stay open-minded and craft win-wins to navigate politics, codes, and public opinion.
- Do extras not required by code to placate the public and elected officials and get projects approved.
Planting Trees And Paving Driveways
- Cody has done extreme concessions like paving neighbors' driveways and planting trees to secure approvals.
- He customizes concessions to win support rather than fight opposition.
Entitlements Demand Creativity, Not Factory Rules
- Public builders are production factories with strict boxes, so entitlement work requires creative, deal-specific solutions.
- Cody argues no factory-line process can consistently handle unique entitlement problems.