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...
A Responsibility for Positive Impact By Carole VanSickle Ellis When John Beacham, CEO of Toorak Capital Partners, talks about the company he founded in 2016, he makes particular note of the reach of his platform — and the unusual and outsized impact of a company about which most investors know...
Picket Homes is Transforming Residential Real Estate By Carole Vansickle Ellis Picket Homes was founded in 2019 in response to what the company’s founders saw as a looming sea change in the single-family residential real estate sector. “We had built out a roadmap for how we thought the industry...
HouseCanary Forges Ahead in the World of Automated Real Estate Data and Valuation By Carole VanSickle Ellis Real estate investors know all about waiting, but Jeremy Sicklick and Christopher Stroud, co-founders of valuation-focused real estate brokerage HouseCanary, really do not like to wait. That...
Flip Factory App Solves the Flipping “Cashflow Problem” from Inside the Industry by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Raleigh-based flippers and general contractors Jake Harris and Juan Huerta invented the Flip Factory App, they were aiming for a solution to one of the oldest problems in the...
Appraisal Nation’s Loyalty to Clients & the Industry Stands Out by Carole VanSickle Ellis Michael Tedesco and his partners founded Appraisal Nation in 2007, just in time for one of the worst housing corrections in history. It might sound like a terrible beginning, but Tedesco proudly notes it...
NTC Keeps Focus on Core Competencies, Client Success by Carole VanSickle Ellis When it comes to protecting the interests of the nation’s largest investors, servicers, and mortgage lenders, Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. takes an innovative, research-based approach to perhaps the most intimidating...
