#211 - Lawrence Dunning on Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Business

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Lawrence starts by explaining how he found his business niche and the lessons learned from working with successful developers. He gets granular on his geographical areas of focus and on understanding risks when developing product that will set the top comparable in a neighborhood. Lawrence provides a great take on his top Chicago neighborhoods for upside and reasoning for why he is bullish. Throughout this episode, Lawrence emphasizes the importance of deeply understanding your market and getting in the game to achieve success!

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0:00.0	look at what your value is, how much your per hour income is over the year, and then stop
0:05.8	doing tasks that are below that and try to outsource it. And I think we can do that in every aspect
0:11.0	of our lives.
0:26.1	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:30.9	Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Laurence Dunning.
0:36.1	Welcome to another episode of Straight Up Chicago Investor Podcast.
0:38.2	I'm your guest, Lawrence Dunning.
0:53.5	I'm with me as always, your host, Tom and Mark. All right. Good job, Lauren. Yeah, I love it, dude. Do we count it because we do different countries? Do we count that as England now? Yeah, definitely, yeah. We get it, right? All right. I think we're up to 10 or 10 then. technically is it's a different dialect English dialect so yeah that counts
0:55.3	we'll count it why It's technically it's a different dialect, English dialect.
0:54.5	So, yeah, that counts.
0:55.4	We'll count it.
0:56.0	Why not?
0:57.5	So, man, it's been a while. Three years since we've us had this guest on it. It's good to reconnect here. Yeah, for sure. And I was looking for a maintenance director back then when he was on the show the first time. and this time I'm looking for a maintenance director again.
1:09.0	So if anyone out there, we've grown,
1:10.9	so I need maybe a higher a person.
1:12.4	But if anyone knows or is a maintenance director again. So if anyone out there, we've grown,
1:10.9	so I need maybe a hire a person. But if anyone knows or is a maintenance director and looking for a job, but we're looking to hire someone for our team. It's funny how like you just look back and the challenges you have, like if you do journal at all, like the challenge you has like, it's either out of deals, out of money, out of time.
1:25.3	Like, it's the same concepts, like just keep the same problems over and over again.
1:29.2	They just got to keep solving for.
1:30.3	Yeah, I agree.
1:31.3	It's a real estate. out of deals, out of money, out of time. Like, it's the same concepts, like, just keep the same problems over and over going
1:29.2	they just got to keep solving for.
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