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...
A Single Point of Contact During the Eviction Process by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Barry Owens, founder and CEO of end-to-end default management servicer End2End Solutions, decided the time had come to solve the “evictions problem” in real estate once and for all, eviction processes were nearly...
Leading the Way in Self-Guided Touring by Carole VanSickle Ellis It’s a tough world out there for rental owners and residents, and at no point is it tougher than when the two parties are seeking each other but have not yet met. The peril does not so much lie in the difficulty in finding affordable...
Data Security Firm is Changing the Face of Fraud Protection by Carole VanSickle Ellis Property Shield is, by any definition, “new to the scene” of data security. In fact, the company launched in February of last year. However, said the company’s co-founder and CEO Alex Fahsel, the data security...
Making Control, Versatility Easy for Self-Directed Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis In 2009, the real estate market was hovering near the bottom of the post-housing-crash slump of the mid-2000s, and Madison Trust Company CEO, president, and co-founder Daniel Gleich was focused on helping his...
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...
