James Hart

  • James Hart is senior staff writer at Think Realty Magazine. Contact him at jhart@ithinkbigger.com.

Profile: James Paine of San Diego's West Realty Advisors

Profile: James Paine of San Diego’s West Realty Advisors

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Founder and Managing Partner James Paine is Leading San Diego's West Realty Advisors from Coast-to-Coast, Door-to-Thousandth Door If anybody could be described as a natural-born entrepreneur, it’s James Paine, founder and managing partner at San Diego-based West Realty Advisors. The Santa Barbara native started his first businesses when he was ...
Loan Arrangers

Loan Arrangers

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John Warren and lima One Capital Are Leading the Charge for Sensible Lending Options for Real Estate Investors Lima One Capital—a South Carolina-based lender serving residential real estate investors—has become one of the industry’s fastest-growing providers of financing, approving more than $100 million in loans last year. And CEO John ...
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Boutique Mortgage Banker Finds Success In Targeted Niche With Creative Offerings and A Consultative Approach

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One of the great thing about the world of real estate investing is that it represents fantastic opportunities for people who can find more than one way to solve a problem—people like Emil Khodorkovsky, the president of Forbix Capital Corp., a California-based boutique mortgage banker for residential and commercial loans ...
Profile: Stephany Haxel on a life-changing decision

Profile: Stephany Haxel on a life-changing decision

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Economic conditions led Stephany Haxel to change her career. Through it, she's now changing others' lives for the better. Last year, Stephany Haxel lost her job as a corporate recruiter. And though it didn’t feel like it then, that life change has been a blessing. She and her husband, Jake, ...
Out-of-the-Bank Thinking

Out-of-the-Bank Thinking

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One of the great things about the world of real estate investing is that it represents fantastic opportunities for people who can find more than one way to solve a problem—people like Emil Khodorkovsky, the president of Forbix Capital Corp., a California-based boutique mortgage banker for residential and commercial loans ...
Joe Scurlock and Chris Underwood are still finding big foreclosure opportunities in Florida

Joe Scurlock and Chris Underwood still finding big opportunities in Florida foreclosure properties

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By James Hart Senior Staff Writer When Chris Underwood and Joe Scurlock of Florida’s HomeStream LLC started the year, they set a goal of buying, rehabbing and selling at least 100 foreclosure properties before Dec. 31, 2015. They passed that milestone in June. Now, Scurlock and Underwood are on pace ...