Meet Bernard Jones and Georgia Giles-Jones, a couple from Minnesota that have officially launched CVH Recovery, an extension to their recovery home business, Central Village Housing LLC. CVH Recovery offers resources to entrepreneurs how to own, operate, and manage a successful recovery home in any state. Through their online course, entrepreneurs can learn and benefit from...
Denver real estate broker Michelle Thomas remembers well her early days growing up in North Aurora, a rough part of the Denver, Colorado metro area, that includes East Colfax Avenue. Stretching 26.5 miles, it’s the longest commercial street in the United States, but it and the surrounding area is best-known by natives, for longstanding squalid...
Please share your story with us Tamarisk. How did you get to where you are today? We are two black women entrepreneurs and mothers, one southern girl from Alabama and a yankee from upstate New York. We both relocated to Georgia, with no job, big dreams, little money, and a child to care for. Talk...
Please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? First and foremost, thank you so much for sharing your platform with me to share my story. It’s an honor and a privilege to share my testimony with you and your readers. I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama....
It’s never been easier to become a real estate investor. However, there are some major things to keep in mind when getting into the industry. Rhonelle Shallow, Real Estate Investor and Founder of RKS Renovations shares with inCity Magazine how NEW investors can avoid the pitfalls of real estate investing.
Real estate is a cyclical business. Markets crash. Deals sour. But hard landings are rare for a savvy property mogul, thanks to the U.S. tax code. Take Harry Macklowe, a New York City developer. Macklowe, 81, hasn’t paid income tax since the 1980s, according to a court opinion in his divorce proceedings issued in December....
In the aftermath of a disaster that destroys your house, it can be all but impossible to think through everything you’ve lost. Fires, floods, hurricanes, damaged roofs—when you’re putting your life back together, you might not be thinking about how to catalogue your drawer of kitchen utensils for the insurance company. But you don’t want...
The City of San Francisco’s trial tricks are as dirty as they come, despite the mission of public prosecutors as upheld by the US Supreme Court: “The State’s Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation...
Legal changes could soon make transacting business easier for the cannabis industry. Reports indicate that the president plans to reform cannabis laws, making commerce easier for businesses working in states with legal markets. Reforming the law could improve the position of companies working with cannabidiol (CBD) as a food additive and industrial hemp. Hemp and...
Over the coming decades, housing will continue to be transformed from a product into a service. Just like we order an Uber or get noodles delivered to our doorstep without much human interaction, soon we’ll be able to rent, buy, or sell homes nearly instantly with an app. This will be a profound change for...