Before the days of AirBnB, Tim Touchette recognized a demand for short term housing as an alternative to hotels in the Washington D.C. market. After buying a furnished rental, he experimented with finding his audience until he found his niche with co...

After a 9-month interview process, John Cohen earned a job as stock broker with Morgan Stanley at the tender age of 22. However, the day he started he saw grown men crying over the Facebook IPO and ended up quitting that same day. From there John put...

Recently, we closed on a 192-unit apartment complex in San Antonio, Texas.  This is by far our largest deal to date and I’ve had quite a few people ask me how we were able to acquire such a large deal. Before I can answer that question I have to dis...

As a fourth generation entrepreneur, Whitney Nicely was expected to work in the family business, but her vision differed drastically from her grandfather’s outdated views on gender roles. She decided to branch out on her own as a real estate investor...

Ben Walhood is the President of the Chicago Area REIA, the largest non-profit real estate organization in Illinois. He is also an investor operating predominantly in the western suburbs of Chicago.  He fixes-and-rents residential properties in workin...