Blog - Mark Ainley

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Investor Stories Featuring Shantanu Kamra

Today’s investment story comes from Shantanu Kamra. Shantanu moved to the United States 8 years ago and Chicagoland just 2 years ago, and he’s been able to scale his portfolio in the western suburbs to over 40 units. Shan is an IT executive and has been able to scale ...

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Investor Stories Featuring Andy Nathan

Today’s Investment story comes from Andy Nathan. Andy Nathan is a real estate investor and digital marketing expert. By combining these talents, he discovered a strength as a Realtor® that allows him to help investors, developers, and landlords with their real esta...

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Investor Stories Featuring Sean Morrissey

Today’s Investment story comes from Sean Morrissey, who entered the Real Estate forum as an investor in 2003, and now leads one of the premier residential property management firms in the Fox Valley area. Sean is a “buy and hold” real estate investor that has a ...

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Investor Stories Featuring Ben Walhood

Today’s Investment story comes from Ben Walhood. Ben is a real estate investor operating predominantly in the western suburbs of Chicago. His primary strategy is to fix-and-rent residential properties in working class neighborhoods, including condos, single family homes, an...

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Investor Stories Featuring Soniel Estime

Today’s Investment story comes from Soniel Estime. Soniel is an investor and works full time in the Chicagoland area. He posted his story on BiggerPockets here. Soniel began his Real Estate investing journey, as many other investors have, after reading the wildly popular bo...

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Investor Stories Featuring Ryan Smith

Today’s Investment story comes from Ryan Smith…. (Ryan specializes in the REO niche market, representing clients throughout Chicagoland, including Cook, DuPage, Will, Lake and Kane counties. He has become an expert in the default industry while working to provide his...

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Investor Stories Featurting Chris Tan

Today’s Investment story comes from Chris Tan.Chris and Priscilla began their investment journey as accidental landlords, while both having full time jobs. They are buy and hold investors, focusing on single family houses in Dupage County, and have done flips, RTO and joint...

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Investor Stories Featuring John Warren

Today’s Investment story comes from John Warren, a licensed real estate broker with Second City Real Estate. As a real estate agent, he focuses on helping other investors maximize their profit as they buy or sell their investment properties. His area of expertise is in the ...

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Investor Stories Featuring Ibn Abney

Today’s investment story comes from Ibn Abney, a full-time W2 employee, developing a real estate portfolio part-time. Ibn is also the founder of the SouthEast Chicago Real Estate Club.Pre-closeIbn understands the Kenwood and Bronzeville area of the city block-by-block...