While real estate businesses nationwide struggle to make sales, one
family-owned Grand Rapids company logged some 300 percent growth
through residential property management. Making upgrades to formerly
vacant homes could help some neighborhoods struggling with foreclosure.
According to excerpts from the story:
A Grand Rapids real estate
company says it's thriving despite the current housing crisis. Beckett
Family Rentals buys and rents properties in Grand Rapids, specializing
downtown areas and in the Southeast, Southwest and Northwest sections
of the city.
"Well, we started in 2000 as a rental company. I
have nine brothers and sisters and my dad wanted to start something
that involved the whole family so we started Beckett Family Rentals and
in the past 9 years we've been buying properties and fixing them up,"
says Josh Beckett, vice president and co-owner. "We all help, work on
them, fix them up and rent them out. You know rather than hiring
contractors and every thing we could do a lot more affordable with all
of us doing it."
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