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· Mark Hay

A Home for Your Cars

Ten years ago, almost no one knew what a "car condo" was. Today, people pay up to $2 million for these luxury man caves for their rides. Fred Gans knows why.

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Rebuilding Detroit

Ed and Richard Fowler, third generation developers, hire construction workers with criminal backgrounds to remake Detroit and change people's lives.

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Gen Z Enters The Chat

Zach Molzer is one of Kansas City's most ambitious developers. He's also 25 years old. With an online fanbase approaching a million followers, is he a sign of things to come in real estate development?

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Mountain Man

Jon Sanders always knew he wanted to do real estate in a mountain town. In the past 20 years he's battled the odds to become one of the largest property owners in the Colorado ski town of Steamboat Springs.

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The French Experience

Isaac French grew up in a family of builders. As a child, he dreamed of creating his own little worlds. Yet he never expected that he'd become the face of a new trend in hospitality: The micro-resort movement.

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The Duplex Kid

You're 23. You realize corporate life isn't what you thought it'd be. If you want to be happy, you need to make a change. What do you do? If you're Donovan Adesoro, you build a duplex out of nothing. Then you do it 40 more times.

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"Not Too Bad for a Tech Guy"

After almost 20 years of tech world success, serial entrepreneur Val Katayev pivoted into real estate. How - and why - did this data and digital marketing expert end up building condos?

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The Stoic of Flex Industrial

Grant Reaves had a plan: Stop selling hotels as a broker. Start buying them instead. Rapidly build a hospitality portfolio in the southeast. Instead, he landed in the hidden world of "flex industrial" - and grew to $170M assets in a few years.

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Bobby Wants More Babies

Bobby Fijan's American Housing Corporation is using prefabrication to build the urban homes young families need. The technology has attracted a lot of buzz. But Fijan just hopes to save American cities by filling them with kids.

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Like A Ton of Bricks

Austin Tunnell built a career in real estate around a sense of purpose and idealistic passion. Then life knocked him into pure survival mode where he had to figure out what he - and his company - were really all about.

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Running Toward Fire

Fire, flood, and battles with tenants. Real estate has thrown a lot at Rachael Jones. That's one of the reasons she loves it.

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