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...
Pioneering Change in Mortgage and Real Estate Industries by Carole VanSickle Ellis Over half a century ago, the foundation of what is now Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) and its family of companies was laid down, marking the beginning of a transformative journey in the business landscape. Since its...
Multi-dimensional Thinking in Insurance by Carole VanSickle Ellis Many real estate owners — even professional investors with a great deal of experience and exposure in different asset classes in the sector — tend to think only of property insurance when they think about the programs designed to...
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...
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,...
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. Thibault Adrien “When we started the...
Getting Involved for the Good of Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis The National Real Estate Investors Association (National REIA or NREIA) was born in late 1985, when leaders from roughly a dozen real estate investor organizations met in New Orleans to exchange ideas and, before leaving the...
