Pushing Boundaries, Protecting Investors and Representing the Industry By Carole VanSickle Ellis One of the earliest documented examples of private lending dates back to roughly 2,000 B.C., when a Mesopotamian farmer borrowed money against the seeds he had planted and promised to pay back the loan...
A New Innovation to Meet the Changing Needs of the Traveling Public By Carole VanSickle Ellis Almost 100 years ago, Marriott International began not as an international chain of hotel brands and bespoke service providers but, instead, as a small A&W root beer stand owned and operated in...
Partnership, Data & Technology Combine for SFR Success By Carole VanSickle Ellis Ask Progress Residential CEO Adolfo Villagomez about the “secret” to the company’s exponential growth, and his answer will be simple: “When customers like your product, they buy more of it, and that helps you...
The Right Tool for the Job By Carole VanSickle Ellis If you only have one tool in your toolbox, it had better be a hammer. There are more than 100 tools and tasks that do not include pounding nails for which a carpenter or builder can use a hammer, and even the biggest fan of today’s modern...
The First Line of Defense in Property Preservation By Carole VanSickle Ellis When Jerry Mavellia and Dan Leader, CEO and COO for Guardian Asset Management, respectively, formed their company in 2007, they did so with the knowledge that there was going to be an increase in foreclosures and defaults...
Residential Capital Partners (ResCap) Champions the Individual Investor By Carole VanSickle Ellis The founders of Residential Capital Partners (ResCap) knew a lot about real estate before they started working together and founded ResCap in 2009 in the midst of the U.S. housing crash and subsequent...
PadSplit’s Unique Co-Living Platform Empowers Investors & Residents By Carole VanSickle Ellis You can do good and do well simultaneously,” Founder and CEO Atticus LeBlanc (yes, named after that Atticus) asserted when he talks about PadSplit, the Atlanta-based co-living marketplace that has...
Profiles of Seven Fix & Flip Investors and Their Specific Markets By Carole VanSickle Ellis Fix-and-flip real estate has never been higher profile than in 2022, when “property porn,” algorithm-driven bulk purchases, and reality real estate television have taken a pandemic-lockdown-fueled...
Building Relationships & Doing Good Business By Carole VanSickle Ellis At Vantage Point Title, Inc. (VPT), everything is about execution. However, there is a caveat that comes with a national title, escrow, and default-services provider that has, as senior co-president David Silcott proudly...
