Midwest

My cousin, Liz, manages the accounts receivable department at Spectrum Health System. We speak often, and she tells me every time that she wants to quit her job. She loves our River City, just as [...]

My brother-in-law, Bob, and I are friends, but there’s always that little edge in our relationship that you can have with in-laws. So, when my real estate investments in Cleveland came up at our [...]

Q: How can you tell if someone’s running the Milwaukee Marathon? A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. My running partners and I all know the truth of this joke well. Runners are single-minded in [...]

Find me one person under the age of 10 who doesn’t utilize some type of computing device. I’m even hard-pressed to think of one of my 89-year-old mom’s friends who doesn’t own a smartphone or a [...]

Believe it or not, I almost became a lawyer. And, it was while studying law at Indiana University’s McKinney Law School that I met one of my now closest friends, Jacob. Of course, that was many [...]

While visiting my cousin, Terry, and her husband, Will, over in Islandview, I noticed one of their laptops opened up to an article called the ‘Ultimate Guide to Real Estate Investing.’ Up until [...]

Growing up on the South Side, my cousin Eddie lived next door to us. He has always been my best friend, even now that we are both focused on family and careers instead of playing ball in the [...]

“Homes are going for only a thousand dollars in Detroit!” “I read you could buy them for one hundred!” This was the gist of the conversation I overheard at the Los Angeles International Airport [...]

When Roberta, one of the other moms at school, approached me about becoming a real estate investor, she mentioned she was hesitating because she didn’t know anything about the market or where to [...]