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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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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Cal American Homes owner and Claremont Capital founder Jessie Rodriguez didn’t just play a house flipper on television, he does so in real life. Over the course of 20 years, former HGTV host Jessie Rodriguez has found success in every facet of real estate including mortgages, house flipping, investing, and ...
CEO of Bull Funding, Kemra Norsworthy, has been in the real estate lending industry since 2003. For the most part, she has remained on the lending side of REI but plans to buy a multifamily building soon and has had a couple rental properties in the past. But no matter ...
Those familiar with the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad know it is an exploration into personal finance, investing and making money work for people rather than the other way around. Steve Trang read it and came out with a different interpretation—he should become a Realtor. “I look back now ...
Women to Watch: Melissa Hamaker
Melissa Hamaker spent many years in commercial insurance before shifting to a career in real estate five years ago. As a busy mom she realized she needed a change from insurance and was eager to learn something new. She started part time at Stromberg Investment Group and quickly moved up ...
For 20 years, Tamara Day has been buying, flipping, and renting out real estate. Her company Growing Days does full renovations on everything from residential to commercial properties and owns some rental properties as well. She didn’t realize it at the time, but it was shortly after walking down the ...
Women to Watch: Kemra Norsworthy
CEO of Bull Funding, Kemra Norsworthy, has been in the real estate lending industry since 2003. For the most part, she has remained on the lending side of REI but plans to buy a multifamily building soon and has had a couple rental properties in the past. But no matter ...
Husband-wife real estate investing team Bruce and Stephanie Petersen decided to join the Think Realty Presidents’ Circle to surround themselves with other driven professionals to collaborate with and lean on for support and for answers when they “get stuck.” “You are the average of the five people you spend the ...
Women to Watch: Arianne Lemire
Born in the Philippines, Arianne Lemire used to dream of making $5.00 an hour. Now, after amassing wealth from investing in real estate, she is educating others on how to be not only financially secure, but able to “retire” on their terms earning passive income from real estate. That’s a ...
Women to Watch: Chantelle Owens
Chantelle Owens is a buy and hold investor who acquires property solely through tax lien investing. The real estate seed was planted early in Owens’ life, when at 17 years old, she helped collect rent for her cousin’s rental properties. “I was fascinated with the concept even at such an ...
Women to Watch: Anne Marie Rogers
In 2020, Anne Marie Rogers, a Certified IRA Services Professional (CISP), was awarded the Think Realty Honors Award for Real Estate Investing Services. For the past eight years, Rogers has worked at Quest Trust Company, one of the nation’s leading Self-Directed IRA companies, where she currently serves as Sales Officer ...
In 2020, Damon Riehl, CEO of Investment Property Loan Exchange and LoanBidz, a national marketplace for investment property loans that partners with real estate investors to match them with great lender and equity partners to support fix and flip, long-term rental, multifamily and small balance commercial acquisitions and refinances, joined ...
Before he even finished high school, Greg Slaughter knew he would have a career in real estate. What he didn’t know then, is that he would achieve success as a real estate investor alongside his future wife. Greg and Kim Slaughter have been operating a real estate investing business almost ...
At some point in his career, Philanthroinvestors® founder Ivan Anz realized he was just “investing money for money.” It wasn’t always like that, however. Anz had an entrepreneurial spirit long before he created Philanthroinvestors, which combines traditional venture capital financing with philanthropic principles to achieve social impact. He started his ...
Business partners and Think Realty Presidents’ Circle members Gabe Clements and Eitan Fishbein’s real estate investing story began in 2016 when they met at a local REI event. They hit it off immediately thanks to a shared passion other than real estate—aviation. “We hit it off when I heard Gabe ...
Featured Member: Gary Pinkerton
The Think Realty Presidents’ Circle attracts the best of the best — real estate investors and entrepreneurs with extensive backgrounds and experience from which all members can benefit. The Circle meets several times each year where members share knowledge, network, and inspire continued success. This month, our featured member is ...
Listen to Nathan Brooks tell his story and you may feel a bit like you’re on a rocket ship watching a blur of lives pass by. As a kid, he displayed an aptitude for music, picking up a variety of instruments including string base, piano, and guitar and developing a ...
Presidents’ Circle Featured Member: Sam Kaddah
Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member and President/CEO of Liquid Logics, Sam Kaddah, never imagined he would move from global operations into the financial industry, but life sometimes takes a funny turn. Before his career in global operations, Kaddah was an electrical engineer. And as happens at all first jobs, Kaddah ...
If you’re not one of Grant Cardone’s 2.9 million Instagram followers, you’re missing out on business tips, sales strategies, real estate advice, and so much more. Known for his dynamic personality, this real estate mogul and multi-business owner has a way with words that might just leave you feeling inspired ...
Presidents’ Circle Featured Members: Gary and Susan Harper
The Harpers, a husband-wife team, have decades of experience in not only real estate investing, but in educating others. And, the duo is well-versed in transitioning. From a full-time executive to single-family rental owner, Gary also transitioned from investor to property manager, growing his company to 300 doors. Susan, a ...
Presidents’ Circle Featured Member: Romney Navarro
The Think Realty Presidents’ Circle is an elite group of real estate investors and private lenders who meet throughout the year to discuss and share ideas, insights, business practices, and more. This month, we turn to member Romney Navarro who shares the number-one invaluable resource that has helped him navigate ...
No one could blame RealInvestors® Chief Visionary Sherman Ragland if he had shied away from real estate after his first introduction to the industry. When Ragland was in junior high school, he begged his mother to take him to a real estate seminar that someone he saw in an infomercial ...
Titan Talk Featuring Tom Meade
Real estate industry titan Tom Meade is dominating the Boston market, becoming the king of local capital. Born and raised in Quincy, MA just a few miles south of Boston, Tom Meade and his three siblings were children of working parents—his dad a nursing-home administrator and his mom a registered ...
Presidents’ Circle: Robert Knight
Presidents’ Circle member, missionary, real estate investor, and business owner Robert Knight has been purchasing and rehabbing buy-and-hold single-family rentals since 2009. In 2016 he pivoted to new construction in the sunshine state. He shared his real estate story and a few other fun facts with Think Realty, including business ...
The real estate industry has been somewhat slow to embrace technology when it comes to transactions, but for the past five years, Roofstock has been there for those who have been ahead of the game. Oakland, CA-based Roofstock specializes in bringing real estate buyers and sellers together. Investors can use ...
For real estate investors, the task of tax preparation may seem even more daunting. When owning a handful of properties, operating several businesses, earning income from various states, and navigating ever-shifting regulations, taxes for investors can quickly get complex. But for Clint Coons, founding partner with Anderson Business Advisors, therein ...
