A Functional Marketplace on Multiple Levels By Carole VanSickle Ellis Renting has been difficult in the 2020s, and that goes for all parties involved. While residents tend to make the headlines most frequently due to housing shortages and skyrocketing rent rates, landlords and institutional...
Helping Investors Scale & Optimize in Every Market By Carole VanSickle Ellis If we have learned nothing else from the COVID-19 global pandemic and its aftermath, we have confirmed that absolutely nothing will slow real estate investors down for long. In fact, less than two years after the...
Coming Out of Volatility Stronger Than Ever By Carole VanSickle Ellis In February 2022, Acra Lending CEO Keith Lind observed with confidence in an interview for an industry magazine that the previous 18 months had been “lucrative for non-QM lenders” and noted proudly that “a high percentage of the...
Much More Than “Just An Investment” By Carole VanSickle Ellis In February 2012, Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and famed “Oracle of Omaha,” sent the single-family residential world into a tailspin when he observed during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he would...
Chasing Perfection - Going the Extra Mile for Turnkey Investors By Carole VanSickle Ellis When REI Nation founders Kent Clothier, Sr., and his wife, Sherry, started building their real estate portfolio in the early 2000s, the real estate investing landscape was very different than it is today....
Creating an Innovative Ecosystem for Investors By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Tim Reilly, executive vice president of asset management at homegenius parent company Radian, talks about homegenius, he describes a company that is a product of decades of evolution in the single-family residential...
Putting Client Success First By Carole VanSickle Ellis “There are three things in life you can count on,” Alex Offutt, managing director of the Wholesale and Correspondent Division of Constructive Capital, likes to say, “death, taxes and Constructive.” When Ben Fertig, founder and president of...
Building Relationships Beyond the Loan By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Jeffrey Tesch, CEO Of RCN Capital, started his company in 2010, he did so with the knowledge that he was tackling a difficult project at a nearly impossible point in history. However, Tesch believed the service RCN could provide...
The University of Maine’s Bio-Home Technology is Opening Doors in Affordable Housing By Carole VanSickle Ellis The oldest prefabricated home on record is the “Manning Portable Cottage,” which was created by British carpenter John Manning, who, in 1830, offered buyers the opportunity to commission...
