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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Featured Member: Andre Johnson
If you have attended a Think Realty event in Baltimore, you have probably met Presidents’ Circle member Andre Johnson, leader of Deal Mastery mastermind and Deals Meetup, an online, nationwide networking opportunity for investors to put together profitable deals. His expert-guided tour of wholesale/REO deals and rehab projects is a ...
Helping You Protect What You’ve Built
Cover your investment properties with top carriers in any stage of occupancy (tenant-occupied, vacant, rehab) across all 50 states. Think Realty Supplier National Real Estate Insurance Group (NREIG) has an unmatched program that allows you to insure all your properties on one schedule, with an online portal and helpful client ...
Titan Talk with Glenn Stromberg hosted by Eddie Wilson
Glenn Stromberg has become the authority in turning mobile homes into real wealth in the real world. In nearly four decades working in the real estate market, Glenn Stromberg has realized that the misconceptions surrounding mobile homes has kept most investors and hedge funds out of that niche market ...
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 ...
Kristina Sawyer, director of loan operations for Arixa Capital, shares her real estate story and what she has learned to help others on their path to success. What is your start-up story? Why real estate? I knew I had an entrepreneur mindset when I was sixteen; my father offered me ...
When former baseball player turned real estate investor, business owner, and mentor, Ryan Pineda was just 12 years old, he was suspended from school for selling…Pokémon cards. You read that right. He was suspended for selling popular trading cars to his friend for $100. It was an upfront deal. No ...
As a professional baseball player, Ryan Pineda is no stranger to coaching. He’d been coached nearly his whole life. But when he transitioned to real estate investing, he thought he could learn the business on his own. “I actually paid for coaches in baseball, and they helped me improve. But ...
The Presidents’ Circle is a select group of top-performing executives from both the private lending and real estate investing industries who gather at exclusive events to network, learn, and tackle challenges in a confidential setting. For the past ten months, we have featured Presidents’ Circle members in Think Realty Magazine ...
Death, taxes, and stress. A triad seemingly inevitable for any American taxpayer. Roughly 52 percent of American adults report that they find the process of filing taxes to be a stress-inducing mess, according to a survey by TaxSlayer. The Internal Revenue Service now has more than 800 unique filing forms ...
Presidents’ Circle: Jason Engelman
When Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member Jason Engelman and his wife Tori Martin moved to Nashville in 2017, it wasn’t for his real estate career. It was for Martin’s country music career. While Martin’s music artist career was taking off, Engelman found himself wanting something different from managing investment portfolios ...
2020 Women to Watch: Susan Harper
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Formerly a teacher, Susan Harper, was looking for something to keep her busy during her summers off. Her brother-in-law owned several properties and a property management company so she ...
2020 Women to Watch: Elizabeth Maora Sickels
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. When the politics of corporate America had gotten a little too heavy for Elizabeth Maora Sickels, a corporate engineer by training, she decided to trade working all over the ...
2020 Women to Watch: Heather Self
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. The first home Heather Self purchased was through Habitat for Humanity. She was a single mom in her 20s, working full time, teaching life-skills classes to welfare recipients, the ...
2020 Women to Watch: Bettina Hernandez
A former police officer in San Antonio, TX, Bettina Hernandez was faced with one of the most important decisions of her life. Her newborn unfortunately had some health issues and Bettina needed to find appropriate childcare or stay home to take care of her daughter. The decision to give up ...
2020 Women to Watch: Sonia Booker
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Real estate entrepreneur, speaker, and author Sonia Booker was exposed to real estate investing long before she purchased her first investment property. Originally from Mississippi, she was introduced to ...
2020 Women to Watch: Deborah Razo
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Just over 10 years ago, real estate investor Deborah Razo had an opportunity to start over. She was in a car accident that left her literally crushed; her head ...
2020 Women to Watch: Carrie Cook
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Carrie Cook with Ignite Funding has 15 years’ experience in the real estate investment industry. In a time when many in the industry were getting out, Cook stuck with ...
2020 Women to Watch: Jamie Wooley
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Real estate investor Jamie Wooley has always been an entrepreneur at heart, having a few businesses when she was in her early twenties. But those businesses didn’t lend to ...
2020 Women to Watch: Susan Naftulin
Think Realty shines a light on some of the many women who are making waves in the real estate investing industry. Susan Naftulin has been in the mortgage/real estate investing world since 1998. This former Philadelphia-based attorney left law for the mortgage industry where she managed the foreclosure and bankruptcies ...
Presidents’ Circle: Nancy Wallace-Laabs
In 2005, Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member, Nancy Wallace-Laabs, lived in Phoenix, AZ. When the uptick in home prices went even higher, she and her husband Brian decided to cash in. They sold their home for a substantial profit, packed up, and moved to Frisco, TX. It was a time ...
Presidents’ Circle: Greg Slaughter
Not many young high schoolers know what they want to do with their life after graduation. But Think Realty Presidents’ Circle member Greg Slaughter did. He knew he would have a career in real estate. What he didn’t know is how long he’d have to wait to make it happen. ...
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 ...
What do you get when two brothers, one with a background in architecture and another in finance, join forces? A successful real estate investing company, that’s what. And it just so happens, that for the King brothers, helping others along the way has made their road to success that much ...
Presidents’ Circle: Abhi Golhar
Podcast Host Extraordinaire. Accomplished Investor. Public Speaker. Think Realty Resident Expert. Presidents’ Circle Member. World Traveler. Social Media Maven. And perhaps, Best Dressed Real Estate Investor. Ok, that last one might be a bit subjective, but it’s no secret that Abhi Golhar has earned many accolades and titles, in the ...
In their nearly two decades of working with one another, CrestCore Realty co-founders Dan Butler and Douglas Skipworth have run halfway around the world together — literally. A year after they became neighbors in 2003, Butler and Skipworth embarked upon a morning running routine that has honed not only the ...
