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...
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...
