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Cleveland, Ohio

A Contradictory Market with Plenty of Potential by Carole VanSickle Ellis Although nationwide investor interest in single-family home purchases is declining, the Cleveland, Ohio, market is still heating up. According to Realtor.com, Cleveland rents are startlingly affordable relative to other similarly sized metro areas, and that means increased interest from investors and would-be tenants as national costs of living continue to rise. In December 2024, Cleveland posted the lowest average

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Arrived

Breaking Down Barriers in Real Estate Investing by Carole VanSickle Ellis Early in his career, Ryan Frazier, co-founder and CEO of Arrived, moved around a lot. Frazier founded another company before Arrived, and he was on the go constantly during the nine years he ran that company. “I was never in the same place long enough to where it made sense to start investing in real estate and building home

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Mosaic

Bringing the Efficiency of Coding to BTR Construction by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Salman Ahmad and Sep Kamvar founded their technology construction company, Mosaic, in 2017, the two computer scientists envisioned “transforming construction through the precision and efficiency of coding.” Ahmad, who has served as the CEO of the company since its founding and has a background in software engineering and computer science, “grew up in a construction household” in

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Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Troubling Trends are Emerging, but the Pennsylvania Region Isn’t Giving Up by Carole VanSickle Ellis Beaver County, Pennsylvania, is considered part of the Greater Pittsburgh region of the state, and, like the Steel City itself, Beaver County is currently enduring some economic tightening not reflected to the same degree elsewhere in the country. In early 2024, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland released a report ranking the Pittsburgh region next

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Lafayette Real Estate

Maintaining the Key Advantage by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Lafayette Real Estate founder and CEO Thibault Adrien describes his company’s journey to providing a great customer experience, he focuses on three unique elements: ability, knowledge, and experience. “When we started the Lafayette in 2011, we knew our ultimate goal was to create a great customer experience, and that meant we had to have the ability, ourselves, to provide property management

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Mecklenburg County, NC

“Meck County” is Poised for More Growth… for Those Who Can Afford It by Carole VanSickle Ellis In September 2024, Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since 2017’s Maria, made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, moved inland, and stalled over Tennessee and western North Carolina, dumping record-breaking amounts of rainfall into the entire region. Despite the massive damages sustained throughout western North Carolina and in Charlotte and

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