I’m from Memphis, which almost automatically means I love music. I get asked a lot if I prefer Stax Records to Motown, and the answer is always yes. I mean, the actual answer is “both are so [...]
Investing in distressed real estate has long been my passion. Where else can you make a difference for a homeowner, the community, and, at the same time, strive for your investment goals? So, I [...]
Everyone I talk to has their own Brooklyn. You’ve got the Dumbo/ Williamsburg crowd, which is what most people think of now when they of Brooklyn (well, that and Park Slope). But this is a huge [...]
A friend of mine was visiting recently, and over dinner at the 317 he asked why he kept seeing signs that said Syracuse was “the heart of New York.” I knew what he was going to say next, of [...]
A friend of mine came to visit me here in Orlando, and on his first night we went out to dinner at Soco, a kind of fancy southern comfort food near the soccer stadium. He expressed a bit of [...]
Last spring, I took a visiting niece to a ballgame at Miller Park. It was one of those typically cold spring days here in Milwaukee and she commented on how lucky we were to have a stadium that [...]
Real estate investors are an assorted lot. I’ve met some who came from construction backgrounds and others who left their corporate jobs to be their own bosses. But, one thing we all have in [...]
On a recent vacation, I received a somewhat frantic call from my brother-in-law, Mike. He’d just begun investing in residential real estate and often bounces ideas off of me before making a move. [...]
For a few years, it seemed like every day was my first day. I moved to Jacksonville about 10 years ago, leaving behind my corporate job and the cold winters of the northern Midwest. I’d been [...]