Generation Homes
Overview
Globally, we are at an inflection point as it relates to the tsunami of distressed debt that is only beginning to make its way into the marketplace. Our value is simple; we have over twenty years of experience, proprietary software, and a national network of relationships with distressed asset sources from which we underwrite and acquire real estate, or loans, collateralized by the real estate. Put simply, we’ve already put in our 10,000 hours, and are poised to take advantage of a historic opportunity.
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Generation Homes
Meet the Team
DUANE ELLIOTT
Duane Elliott has over thirty-five years of professional experience as a CFO, business owner, entrepreneur, and non-profit community leader. Duane attended the University of Houston and thereafter founded EPI Properties, Inc. a successful real estate acquisition and management company.
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Mr. Elliott built a strong reputation with investors and banks acquiring and resolving portfolios of distressed residential real estate assets. His success with the company resulted in his invitation and participation in several environmental startup companies and further management and controller responsibilities for a number of seasoned companies including Paradigm Practice Management Corporation and McClintock Corporation.
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In 2001 Mr. Elliott expanded the real estate company to Hawaii and made it his permanent residence. He broadened the company’s real estate activities into the utilizing of underused real estate or high end resorts on the islands of Maui and the Big Island. From 2012-2019, Mr. Elliott installed a Fishpipe Water Slide attraction at the Grand Wailea and Westin Kaanapali on Maui, and the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island. The attractions were rated as a top tier experience for each of the islands.
Since 2015 Mr. Elliott has also been the Executive Director of Boys to Men Mentoring Hawaii a local nonprofit corporation. Boys to Men Mentoring works with fatherless and at-risk boys in the middle and high schools in 17 schools with over 140 trained mentors and over 1,000 boys in the mentoring program. Mr. Elliott expanded the mentoring and helped create a Maui Men’s Jail Group, a program where volunteers sit in weekly support circles with incarcerated men and mentor them in making better life choices.
MICHAEL WICK
After attending Arizona State University Mr. Wick quickly began his business career which would encompass systems consultancy, general management, and entrepreneurial investment.
Entering the telecommunications industry, Mr. Wick quickly moved from sales, to management, to founding the largest privately held telecommunications company in Arizona, Communication Technologies, Inc.
As a result of the technical and management experience he gained from the telecommunications industry, he was invited to co-found a number of other companies in related industries, including:
• Standard Flooring (a nationwide government contracting company),
• Voice Express (voice mail manufacturing),
• COMTECH (computer manufacturing),
• Professional Recruiting Services,
• Global-Net (a long distance reseller),
• WCRT Energy (an oil and gas lending company).
As Mr. Wick successfully exited those companies, he used his analytical and management abilities to reinvest the proceeds as equity capital for real estate development projects in excess of $147,000,000 while achieving significantly above market returns.
From his unique technical expertise, Mr. Wick began to test and implement cloud based tools to access big data and gain proficiency in analyzing what were initially rare investment opportunities. As the key designer of the proprietary system Accredited Investors LLC owns has evolved, it is now able to analyze, filter, evaluate and identify from hundreds of thousands of properties nationally “rare” investment opportunities in the hundreds of millions and achieve returns commonly exceeding 19% unleveraged ROI.
JASON THROWER
Mr. Jason Thrower was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and he received his Bachelor of Science degree from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Mr. Thrower started his Commercial Real Estate Brokerage career at Marcus and Millichap and worked with several brokerage companies thereafter including The Bentley Group, Sperry Van Ness, and KW Commercial. Throughout the years, he specialized in the acquisition and disposition of Office, Industrial, Retail and Multi-Family investment properties. For 9 years, hemad e strong relationships with property owners, developers and institutional clients. He was
able to cultivate and maintain new businesses penetrating the market through relationship building and market expertise.
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In March of 2013, he decided to join the corporate world and started working for IBM as a Account Executive. During those times, he was responsible for leading sales for large Fortune 500 clients’ enterprise software needs. All his efforts paid off and in just 2 years, he was promoted to a Sales Manager Position.
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Mr. Thrower managed the sales activities of the sales team responsible for coverage throughout the United States for Maximo EAM, TRIRIGA and Watson IoT solutions and in just 2 years, he was again promoted as one of the IBM Lead Account Executives where in he was responsible in managing client relationships with some of the largest Fortune 100 companies in the United States. Mr. Thrower continued to work in the Enterprise Software Sales and
Consulting space until January 2022 when he jointed Accredited Investors LLC.
Mr. Thrower will manage the operations of the Commercial Real Estate Division at Accredited Investors. Mr. Thrower will be responsible for managing the entire deal lifecycle for commercial assets throughout the United States.