My full-time career is in hospitality - consulting for boutique hotels, restaurants, and vacation rentals around the world. Recently finished consulting on a large hotel redevelopment in California, and now looking for our own hotel project in Spain.
I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad and was sold on real estate investing. I bought my first flip in 2008, first rental in 2011 and it's been onward and upward ever since. I love all things real estate. I am a real estate broker/owner with Achieve Real Estate in Lansing MI. We are on pace to flip 24 homes this year and currently own and manage 115...
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and moved to Nashville after college.
I met my wife, a Nashville native, and we purchased our first investment property in July 2018.
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I started with about $10,000 down on a 2 bed, 2.5 bath condo in Bellevue, just outside of...
Grew up in the Black Hills of Rapid City South Dakota and about a 15-20 minute drive from Mt Rushmore.
From there I moved to northern MN where I received my undergrad in Construction Management and in a round about way over about a 5 year time frame my journey took me to where I have lived since 2012 which is Houston...
I have an engineering background and worked in Aerospace on multiple Space Shuttle missions. I became licensed in 2011 with an interest in Real Estate as an investment vehicle and have studied creative buying, selling and sales strategies both nationally and locally.
My "9-5" is 2nd shift and run the property business by day. My wife and I are Midwest transplants and love taking odd things and making them into something better and different. We surround ourselves with fun and energetic people who love to smile and sarcasm. If its not fun to do, it isn't worth doing!