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...
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...
