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...
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...
