Putting Property Managers & Pet Owners on the Same Page by Carole VanSickle Ellis When John Bradford, founder and CEO of digital, third-party pet-screening platform PetScreening, first had the idea for his company, he already had firsthand experience with the benefits and potential pitfalls...
Striking the Right Balance by Carole VanSickle Ellis Justin Fordham, CEO of Fordham Enterprises, believes firmly in that now-famous axiom: “If you build it, they will come.” Unlike Kevin Costner in his classic baseball movie, however, Fordham is not building ballparks in corn fields. Instead, he...
Connecting Investors to the Future of SFR by Carole VanSickle Ellis When national mortgage technology and services provider ServiceLink was founded more than 55 years ago, the company dedicated itself to finding “technology-driven solutions” for lenders and, soon, mortgage servicers and real...
Built on Decades of Experience for Today’s Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis In the early 2000s, when Andy Laing, president of Genstone Holdings, met Ed Fay, founder and CEO of the company, the two men had no idea that roughly 14 years later they would team up to successfully scale one of the...
Informa Real Estate Continues IMN’s Tradition of Innovative Opportunities by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Steve Glener, director of research at IMN, started with the company more than 25 years ago, he knew it would be hard work creating and implementing conferences that would provide “unrivalled...
Bridging the Gap Between Data & the Real World by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Ivo Draginov, president of BatchData, started his company in 2018 along with co-founders Anny Draginova, COO, and Jesse Burrell, CEO, the three brought a wealth of real estate investing and construction management...
Taking Pride in Being the Best by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Josh Woodward, president and CEO of Lima One Capital, thinks back on his early days at the company, he remembers how different the real estate investment lending industry was in the early 2010s. “At that time, we were still operating in...
Celebrating 75 Issues of Innovation In Real Estate by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Robert “Bob” Rakowski thinks about the day he first began laying the groundwork for REI INK, the first thing the publisher recalls is how many people immediately informed him that a monthly, national, print real...
Serving the Keystone of Successful Real Estate Investing by Carole VanSickle Ellis According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are nearly 50 million rental units across the United States, and Troy Garrett, the governmental affairs director for the National Association of Residential Property...
