Katie Bean
Like a phoenix, Bill Tessar’s CV3 rises from the ashes of a gutted business. As he watched the team he built get dismantled, William Tessar couldn’t just sit on the sidelines. He had to act. “It was devastating for me to see so many capable human beings, that did nothing ...
Titan of Multifamily: Madina Shaik, CEO of Makaan Investment Group
Shaik’s simple plan to dominate multifamily investing isn’t “rocket science.” Growing up in southern India, Madina Shaik was passionate about civil engineering and decided he wanted to be part of the building process. Today, he’s a titan of multifamily investing, building and renovating thousands of units. Of course, it wasn’t ...
Real estate investing lost a visionary, thought leader, and philanthropist this summer. Aaron Norris, vice president of The Norris Group, succumbed to stage 4 intimal sarcoma, a rare cancer, on July 1, 2022. He was 45. Despite his life being cut short, he made an outsized impact on the industry ...
Serial Entrepreneur Shares His Experience
Garrett Sutton is no stranger to starting new ventures. He’s a real estate investor, author, and film producer on top of running his law firm, Corporate Direct, which helps business owners, including real estate investors, start and maintain their business entities. In his career spanning more than 40 years, Sutton ...
A common thread running through Kemra Norsworthy’s career is that she doesn’t like to lose. From her time selling cars to many years in the mortgage and private lending industries, her outlook is “if there’s a will, there’s a way.” She taps that determination as founder and CEO of Bull ...
Bill Tessar fell in love with lending early in his career. During his freshman year of college, he worked as an originator—and he hasn’t looked back since. “The whole ‘love at first sight’ type of thing that people talk about—I think that applies to me and the business,” he said ...
Like many real estate investors, the 2008 market crash caused Jorge Abreu to re-evaluate his career and his future. His next steps, however, were likely not the same as the path forward for others: He moved halfway across the country with his fiancée and a lifelong friend, renting a home ...
Dave Van Horn started working early—in every sense of the word. In fourth grade, he had a paper route, delivering the news at the crack of dawn. Since then, he’s continued putting in the hard work, but over time, he’s learned how to put his money to work as well ...
In his early days of real estate investing, Joe Fairless was living in an unairconditioned apartment, attending Rich Dad Poor Dad seminars and taking improv and standup classes. Each was a formative experience that led to his national success as a real estate investor, businessman, author, and famed podcaster of ...
'Roll Up Strategy' One trend Haldeman sees is a “roll up strategy” of consolidating products into one company, rather than each “new whiz bang thing” existing on its own. The end result will be fewer vendors providing more functionality to owners, he said. Coworking + Living As the gig economy ...
Lucas Haldeman started his career as a software developer at one of the first companies to put a database of apartments online. Today, he leads a cutting-edge PropTech firm, SmartRent, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. SmartRent is an enterprise home-automation company developing software and hardware that helps owners, property managers, and ...
