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Learn from the best and brightest in the real estate investment space: Who they are, what they do, and a little of their secret sauce.
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Profiles
Learn from the best and brightest in the real estate investment space: Who they are, what they do, and a little of their secret sauce.
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Think Realty Partner, Sonia Booker, Celebrates National Women’s Month and a Feature in O, Magazine
Sonia Booker, an Atlanta, Georgia, real estate investor, held a “historic celebration” at the Sewell Appliance and Showroom in Sandy Springs, Georgia, on March 18, 2017, to celebrate national Women’s Month. Booker, who was recently featured in O, Magazine as one of the publication’s “Leading Women in Business,” honored a ...
You can learn more about Gaylene Lonergan and her law practice and reserve your spot at the “Dallas Market Insights” panel at the Think Realty Expo on April 29, 2017 by clicking here. No one has ever disputed that Texas is one of the most unique states in the Union, ...
Cathy Crowe Exposes Dallas’ Market “Heat” at Think Realty Dallas Expo
Cathy Crowe has spent nearly three decades in real estate, managing her own wholesales and rehabbing deals since 1990. All the while creating and selling mortgage notes, owning and managing rental properties, selling more than 100 multifamily properties and other packaged single-family deals. Crowe, who is a licensed Realtor, manages ...
You can learn more about Julie Ziglar Norman and reserve your spot at the “Women to Watch in Real Estate in 2017” panel at the Think Realty Expo on April 29, 2017 by clicking here. If real estate is all about relationships, then Think Realty’s “Women to Watch in Real ...
Woman to Watch: Kimberly Smith
Woman: Kimberly Smith Company: AvenueWest Corporate Housing, AvenueWest Global Franchise Place in the Industry Before there was Airbnb, there was Kimberly Smith and AvenueWest. Smith founded the company in 1999 as a real estate brokerage specializing in furnished property management for monthly fees. “We worked with private investors to get their properties ...
Woman: Sue Nelson Company: REO Note Profits Place in the Industry Sue Nelson describes her real estate investing as “simple.” “I buy apartment complexes, basically,” she said. Of course, over the past 12 years the former-art-teacher-turned-commercial-investor has built a portfolio that once included 2,500 units, has taught hundreds of students to do ...
Woman To Watch: Vena Jones-Cox
Woman: Vena Jones-Cox Company: You Buy Houses Place in the Industry Vena Jones-Cox has been investing in residential real estate in the greater Cincinnati area full-time since 1989, and she’s completed over 600 deals in the process. “I consider myself a generalist,” she said. “Everything I do is around single family ...
Woman: Svenja Gudell Company: Zillow Place in the Industry Svenja Gudell has a very big job. As Zillow’s chief economist, she not only leads a team of more than 10 economists, data scientists, and analysts in producing real estate research for consumers, academics, policy-makers, and the rest of the decision-makers in ...
Woman: Kathy Fettke Company: Real Wealth Network Place in the Industry Kathy Fettke considers her place in the industry to be one of offering hope. “I offer people a lot of hope that they will someday be able to experience financial freedom through real estate investing thanks to a path that ...
Sonia Booker Leads A Grass-Roots Wealth Building Movement
*As featured in O Magazine. Sonia Booker inspires people to build their wealth one dollar and one decision at a time. She has shared that concept with thousands of followers through her annual iBuild Wealth® workshops, as an author, and through “The Sonia Booker Show,” her weekly radio program. Thought ...
Woman to Watch: AdaPia d’Errico
Woman: AdaPia d’Errico Company: d’Errico Creative Consulting Ltd. Place in the Industry AdaPia’s highest-profile project to date may be her role as chief marketing officer at Patch of Land, working with the founders and CEO to set the strategic marketing objectives necessary to raise $23.6 million in series-A funding. And ...
Cincinnati Real Estate Rental Market On Positive Course For Investors
Cincinnati, Ohio, started 2016 off with a bang. The Queen City, which had been experiencing population declines since the 1950s and took the housing crash very, very hard (with losses in values and a foreclosure crisis that extended long into the purported national “recovery”), found itself once again gaining in ...
Investor Highlight: Bryan Blankenship
Bryan Blankenship describes himself as a “boring Ohio guy,” but the “general contractor at heart” is much more than that. With multiple roaring real estate investing businesses that literally run the gamut of the industry from retail fix-and-flips to commercial development, and a thriving turnkey rental property organization, Blankenship is ...
The Edwards Brothers: Expanding Their Real Estate Empire
Almost 15 years ago, identical twin brothers Kelly and Chris Edwards found a historic house in Raleigh, North Carolina, that their real estate agent advised them not to buy. But they borrowed $5,000 from Dad and bought it anyway. The slanted floors were only the beginning of the repairs that ...
Private Money Lending Guide: The Money Matchmaker
For newer real estate investors, the world of private money loans can often feel intimidating, especially if they’ve only ever borrowed from traditional banks. But private money lenders – also known as “hard money” lenders – serve as important partners to real estate entrepreneurs who need relatively quick financing from ...
One-to-one with Joe Fairless: Offering Advice
Joe Fairless is founder of Fairless Investing and host of the “Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever” podcast. Fairless Investing controls more than $99 million in multifamily units, primarily in Dallas and Houston, and provides turnkey investments to real estate investors. Joe Fairless also hosts the world’s longest-running daily real ...
Woman: Carrie Cook Company: Preferred Trust Company, Ignite Funding Place in the Industry When Carrie Cook says success in real estate is earned - she knows what she’s talking about. “I do not have an Ivy League education. In fact, I didn’t go to college until 10 years after I graduated high ...
Woman: Sonia Booker Company: Sonia Booker Enterprises Place in the Industry When Sonia started investing more than two decades ago, “I did it all,” she says. That doesn’t seem to have changed much. The self-described wealth-builder and thought leader not only buys and rehabs single-family properties for sale and rental ...
One-on-One with Kathy Fettke: Offering Hope
Kathy Fettke has spent the last two decades in real estate doing what she calls “offering hope” - and what many others consider to be making great calls on the real estate industry. Fettke is often asked to comment on the housing market on television and radio as well as ...
One-on-One with Shawn Woedl: Busting Real Estate Investing Myths
Shawn Woedl is the Vice President of the National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG), industry-recognized speaker and educator, and an expert on all lines of commercial property insurance. He will be presenting a study on “The 13 Insurance Myths for Real Estate Investors” at Think Realty’s San Diego Group Event ...
One-to-One with Sonia Booker: Sharing the Vision
Sonia Booker is a powerhouse on the real estate scene. With a strong voice and a powerful message, Booker has one of the most positive and confident networking skill sets in the business. She is now in demand all over the country, as she works to spread her “wealth-building movement.” ...
One-to-One: Eddie Wilson Discusses China, Investing Outlook
Recently, Eddie Wilson, president of Affinity Enterprise Group (AEG), returned from a trip to China to visit AEG’s Chinese division, Affinity Investments Asia (AIA). AIA has a physical office in Shanghai with the sole designated purpose of helping Chinese investors find credible investment opportunities in the United States. The office ...
One-to-One with Matt Neisser: How Private Lending Works for Investors
LendingOne helps real estate investors across the country secure the financing they need to build bigger, more profitable portfolios. The direct private real estate lender, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, provides bridge loans for fix-and-flip deals, as well as longer-term financing for properties that investors hold onto for years. Curious ...
Profile: Greg Rand of OwnAmerica
Greg Rand is founder and CEO of OwnAmerica, a real estate technology and services company that provides rental property owners a detailed analysis of their portfolio and enables them to buy and sell properties with other owners. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Rand was managing partner at Better Homes and ...
When Michael Jordan looks around his hometown of Detroit, he just can’t help seeing opportunity and growth. Jordan is the founder and president of Strategy Properties, a turnkey real estate investment company. Strategy buys and renovates residential properties in high-demand Motor City neighborhoods, particularly three-bedroom homes near desirable schools. The ...
