A Network of Consummate Professionals By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Deanna Alfredo, senior vice president of the ZVN Properties Inc.’s Single-Family Rental (SFR) division, thinks about how the company is evolving with the times and the industry, she can sum up one of the biggest changes with one...
Making Property Management Better for Everyone By Carole VanSickle Ellis At the beginning of 2024, roughly 10 million individuals in the United States owned rental properties. Of those 10 million, 51% work with a property manager to manage those investments, and those property management firms...
Providing Investors with “Certainty & Control” By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Offerpad founder, CEO, and chairman Brian Bair founded Offerpad nine years ago, he did so with a clear goal of control. Bair was not seeking authority for himself, however. He wanted to establish a platform where...
New Life & New Challenges in an American Tradition By Carole VanSickle Ellis If you have read the Little House on the Prairie books by American pioneer girl Laura Ingalls Wilder, then you may remember the book in which the family lives in a dugout underneath a hillside next to a creek while...
ARK Homes For Rent has Laser Focus on Resident Experience By Carole VanSickle Ellis When ARK Homes For Rent founder Jordan Kavana founded the data-driven single-family-residential management company that would eventually evolve into ARK Homes, the idea of SFR as an industry was barely a blip on...
Dedicated to Growth & Its Residents Going into 2024 By Carole VanSickle Ellis In 2015, when FirstKey Homes opened its doors, the single-family rental (SFR) market was still in its infancy, with researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research still publishing papers with theses...
Purposefully Built for Rent By Carole VanSickle Ellis It was a very happy Valentine’s Day in February 2020 when Quinn Residences closed on its first project, a 93-home community in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company had big plans for the townhome community, including a shift from the for-sale...
So Much More Than Meets the Eye By Carole VanSickle Ellis It all started when Lowell Misener fell down the stairs and found himself lying on the floor, looking at an electrical outlet that was not doing one thing to help him. Misener, who is co-founder of smart-device maker Swidget along with...
Investment Property Insurance That Just Makes Sense By Carole VanSickle Ellis For most people, property insurance is a “given.” After all, homeowners know that failure to insure what is likely their most valuable asset could cost them literally everything, and most renters have been admonished to...
