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It’s no accident that I’m as successful at buying, renovating, and selling houses as I am. I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit and a knack for real estate, but I worked hard to get where I [...]

When I met my friend, Wes, for dim sum the other day, I could barely hear him over the noise. We weren’t far from College Point Boulevard in Flushing, where development on a new mixed-use [...]

Jennifer and her husband, David, approached me as I was leaving the City of Chicago’s Department of Buildings downtown the other day. I was checking on the status of a renovation permit and they [...]

I was recently chatting with my friend, Shane, who was about to embark on a new chapter in his life. He was in the process of moving across the country to start a new job. But, that meant he [...]

I regularly take the “L” around town and, sometimes, even out to my suburban Chicago investment properties when I want to see how a renovation is going. A couple of weeks ago, I ran into a fellow [...]

My long-time friend, Will, is a part-time real estate investor. But, lately, he’s been talking about quitting his corporate job to start up a full-time investing business like me. So, over a [...]

Over the weekend, I took my family to the DuPage Children’s Museum and met Jon, a local real estate investor who was there with his family too. He said he was just starting a career in real [...]

As a young, impressionable lad in my late twenties, I had a lot to learn about business. Most of that education would result from experience. My mom worked in a customer service role in a small, [...]

I’m probably like every other East Coaster who immediately associates the Bronx with the New York Yankees. You may beg to differ if you’re a soccer fan who doesn’t give a hoot about baseball and [...]