● Filed · Embassy builders · case file 09
Five commercial sites found, negotiated and closed — at eighteen
Sourced and closed five commercial sites for a builder — two for its cloud-kitchen business, three for its liquor retail — by finding the properties, approaching the owners directly and negotiating my own fee on each deal.
Overview
Sourced and closed five commercial sites for a builder — two for its cloud-kitchen business, three for its liquor retail — by finding the properties, approaching the owners directly and negotiating my own fee on each deal.
My role
Site sourcing & deal origination
Timeline
2018
Filed
● Impact overview
- ₹6,00,000Earned, at eighteen
- 5Sites sourced and closed
- 2 + 3Cloud kitchens · liquor retail
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Situation
A builder was opening cloud kitchens and a liquor retail business and needed sites for both. Finding a site is the easy half; the hard half is that commercial property in Bengaluru is held by owners who do not list, do not answer unknown numbers, and will not take a teenager seriously.
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Action
I hunted the properties myself, called the owners cold, and did the talking — including negotiating my own fee on every deal, which meant arguing my worth to two parties at once before either had any reason to grant it.
Then I put the two sides together and held the deal until it closed. Five sites in total: two for the cloud kitchens, three for the liquor business.
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Result
₹6,00,000 earned at eighteen. It is the first serious money I made, and it came from no product, no inventory and no capital — only from finding something a business needed, getting to the person who controlled it, and being trusted to hold both ends of the conversation.
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