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 Washington, D.C., by founder J. Willard Marriott, Sr., and his wife, Alice. Over time, that company grew to include the East Coast’s
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NPLA & Pitbull Conference By Jon Hornik The National Private Lenders Association (NPLA) is the association that represents and protects the interests of Private Lenders as it pertains to new legislation and public policy. Our organization has built a community of members made up of lenders, capital providers, brokers, developers, and industry service providers. The mission of the NPLA is to support, protect, and grow the Private Lending Industry. Pitbull
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John Gordon — Director of National Accounts, Home Depot By Carole VanSickle Ellis In 1980, a newly married John Gordon and his wife were heading toward Lansing, Michigan, where they expected Gordon to join computing powerhouse IBM in the company’s marketing department while his wife earned her master’s degree at Michigan State. They were loading the truck to head for Michigan when they got the call: IBM was in a
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Is It Necessary? Will It Help? By Paul Gozzo New home construction is not broken. In fact, just the opposite; construction has evolved well over the last ten plus years. Builders of all sizes and specialties who build affordable houses all the way up to large custom homes, have adopted many new technologies into their processes. The majority of those innovations have taken place on the materials side of the
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The Market is Still Fundamentally Strong By Adam Stern For context, my firm provides Advisory and Investment Sales Services for regional builders looking to break into or expand in the Build-For-Rent segment, and showing them how to take residential projects and fit them into the Build-For-Rent mold in order to sell their neighborhoods as rental communities to long term buy-and-hold operators. Let’s start with a view of where things just were and
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The Palmetto State’s “Emerald City” is Still a Prime Location for Investors By Carole VanSickle Ellis The Greenville, South Carolina, real estate market has normalized, and that means the Palmetto State’s “Emerald City” is looking more alluring than ever in 2023. Ranked fifth on Realtor.com’s “Top 10 Real Estate Markets to Watch in 2023 and Into the Future,” Greenville boasts a combination of “better housing affordability, greater numbers of renters
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