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Guardian Asset Management

Guardian Asset Management

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...

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Investing in the American Dream

Investing in the American Dream

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...

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Sticking with the Mission

Sticking with the Mission

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...

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The Fix & Flip Investment Niche

The Fix & Flip Investment Niche

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...

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VANTAGE POINT TITLE

VANTAGE POINT TITLE

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...

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Toorak Capital Partners

Toorak Capital Partners

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...

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Picket Homes – World Class

Picket Homes – World Class

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...

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Creating Confidence in Data & Valuation

Creating Confidence in Data & Valuation

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...

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Padlocking Flip Projects Into Profits

Padlocking Flip Projects Into Profits

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...

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