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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 Podcast #351 – From Drugs to Deals: The Eric Cline Story
What happens when a man who once smoked crack for eight days straight, weighing 135 lbs and staring death in the face, turns his life around to become a multimillionaire entrepreneur and elite sales coach? In this jaw-dropping episode, we sit down with Eric Cline, whose story of survival, reinvention, ...
LYNK Capital Elevates Dee Toal-Brothers to CEO Position
LYNK Capital, a leading private lending firm, today announced the promotion of Dee Toal-Brothers to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Dee, a partner at LYNK who has served as Head of Operations for over eight years, brings a wealth of experience and leadership to her new role. Chairman ...
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 ...
Broker Power: A Key to Investors’ Success
Working with a mortgage broker for your real estate funding needs offers a number of advantages. Working with a mortgage broker for your real estate funding needs offers a number of advantages. As a residential real estate investor, you face a myriad of decisions that shape the trajectory of your ...
Titan Talk Featuring Madina Shaik Hosted by Eddie Wilson
Madina Shaik is the titan of multifamily. With extremely humble beginnings and only a few years in the industry, Madina rivals some of the largest privately held portfolios. He made his fortune in technology, but has since shifted his focus to purchasing large assets in large quantities. Listen as Madina ...
Revolutionizing the Assisted Living Industry
Isabelle Guarino-Smith is the chief operating officer of the largest residential assisted living training organization in the country, Residential Assisted Living Academy. In her role, she teaches thousands of real estate investors, medical professionals, and entrepreneurs how to build successful and sustainable businesses in the assisted living industry. Using the ...
Think Realty Honors: 2022 Winners
Multifamily Investor of the Year The honoree for this award is an investor excelling in multifamily real estate, including but not limited to, new construction and development, community master planning and development, apartments, condominiums, co-housing, duplexes and larger multiunit investments, and other multifamily communities. Jorge Abreu is the managing partner ...
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 ...
Elevate Your Finances and Your Best Self with “The Wise Investor” by Rich Fettke
“The Wise Investor: A Modern Parable About Creating Financial Freedom and Living Your Best Life” highlights the life of Ryan Brooks who realizes he isn’t accomplishing the dreams he once had. He works too much and has very little time or money for himself and his family, so he embarks on ...
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 ...
Titan Talk Featuring Garrett Sutton
As a titan of asset protection, Garrett Sutton is not only an attorney, but a best-selling author and business owner. Sutton is who the top investors call when they need to protect themselves and their investments. Sutton helps clients recognize why protecting their LLC is essential, file documents appropriately, and ...
Are You Prepared for the Upcoming Market Crash in 2022?
I was hoping the article title would get your attention. First, am I 100% sure a crash is coming? Yes! Am I 100% sure it’s going to happen in 2022? No, but I really do feel in my gut it is going to happen in 2022. Obviously, on Jan. 1, ...
Titan Talk Featuring Robert Knight Hosted by Eddie Wilson
Build to Rent Titan Robert Knight is dominating the Southwest Florida market, constructing his Cape Coral empire in just six short years. Knight helps real estate investors become housing providers by building residences intended for rental from the get-go, demonstrating that helping others find their dreams earns its own kind ...
Often, the path to success starts with asking questions. Kaylee McMahon, known as The Apartment Queen, started her journey in multifamily real estate investing by asking the right questions. And although she relied on curiosity in the beginning, she soon realized the person giving the answers is just as important ...
Meet Eboni Killian In 2017, Eboni Killian attended a Real Estate Investing Bootcamp. After the bootcamp ended, she hit the ground running and decided wholesaling would be her investment niche. She found her first deal on a FSBO list she purchased from a local list company. The seller had purchased ...
The New Think Realty Government Relations Committee
Earlier this year, Think Realty started its own Government Relations Committee (GRC) to help spur REI-friendly legislation in state legislatures and Congress. The Why Behind the Movement Tackling issues like these often starts with semantics. In Think Realty’s Realty Matters article series last year, contributor Brian Wojcik spoke about the ...
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 ...
Eight years ago, Gene Guarino contributed another example of the popular phrase necessity is the mother of invention. Guarino created RAL (Residential Assisted Living) Academy when his own mother needed help. It all became very real for Guarino when one night his mother fell out of bed and cracked her ...
For Josh Stech, helping people find a better place to live has never been a job, but a calling. Stech is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sundae, a California-based firm that specializes in connecting people looking to sell homes that could “use a little love” with property investors looking to ...
Creating a New Breed of Multifamily Real Estate Company
My career in real estate started with a “red pill, blue pill” moment. It felt like a whole new world had been opened up to me, one that had been right under my nose my whole life. I grew up in McAllen, Texas and followed the advice that everyone gets ...
Typically, the terms “risk taker” and “cautious” are not applied to the same person, but Ryan Robson had made a career out of assuming both of these traits when it comes to his real estate career and business decisions. Robson has owned Rocket Lister since November 2020. The multi-state company ...
