Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Brad Jefferson + MORE

1. The Wexner Will Blow Your Mind
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On the campus of The Ohio State University, the Wexner Center for the Arts is the city’s go-to location for contemporary art. Film, concerts, dance, theater, and exhibitions—this place has it all. It’s one of the cultural hubs of the Central Ohio region, and for good reason…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Brad Jefferson of Animoto.
Here’s a bit more about him…
1) What do you do?
I’m the CEO and co-founder of Animoto and work hard to make it easy for people to create and share extraordinary videos of their life or for their business…

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With 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) under his belt, you’d think Wayne Gretzky would be ready to settle down. But in real estate, “The Great One” is just warming up.
In 2007, he sold his Thousand Oaks, CA home for $18.5 million. While that property recently returned to the for-sale market, the former professional hockey player has listed his Scottsdale, AZ residence for $3…

There are a lot of things I’m not good at in life.
Like softball.
Or pick up lines (Do you have a band-aid? Cause I just skinned my knee when I fell for you…)
However, there are a couple things I think I’m pretty decent at – and one of those things is keeping my vacancy rates super low (the other is making balloon animals… which is a story for another day…

Filed under: News, Financing, ForeclosuresBy Les Christie

Starting this week, hundreds of thousands of struggling borrowers could be in for a pleasant surprise: a quick and easy way to get their mortgage payments back on track — and save considerable money.

Through a new effort called the Streamlined Modification Initiative, borrowers with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who are at least 90 days behind on payments will start receiving offers from lenders to lower their mortgage payments…