Ed Taylor
President

Ed Taylor is a long time local investor, landlord, private money lender, and property manager. A life-long resident of Venice, Florida, Ed purchased his first investment rental in 1978 (a single family home) after taking a John Schaub/Jack Miller tag-team investment class. His current portfolio is a mix of long term single family homes, commercial, and short term rentals.

Ed’s former “day job” was as owner, operator, and risk manager of assisted living communities in Sarasota, Ft. Myers, and Naples. He continues to be an active volunteer in the community, is a Charter member, Sertoma Club of Venice member, former Venice City Councilman, former founding Director or Guaranty Bank and Trust and Bank of Venice.

Lisa Flynn
Secretary/Treasurer

Lisa first entered the world of real estate while living in Massachusetts. Although she held a real estate license back then, she focused more “behind the scenes” building a title abstracting business.

That was the first of a number of successful businesses Lisa built over the years. She’s had a marketing and website development business and very successful dog training/boarding business.

“The truth is, I have never had a J.O.B. I understand a great deal about marketing, hard work, and I believe that building relationships is the foundation of success.

Lisa and her home inspector husband, Doug Smith, have a portfolio of small multi family and single family homes. They will occasionally flip or wholesale a deal. However, their focus is on buy and hold.

As an investor herself, Lisa understands the numbers and “thinks” differently than most other REALTORS. She is truly an investor-focused RE agent who is passionate about helping people build wealth through real estate investments.

To learn more about Lisa visit www.LisaMFlynn.com

Frank Everhart
Co-Vice President

Frank Everhart, a real estate entrepreneur who, over the past 30 years, has bought, rehabbed, sold, leased, traded and optioned about 100 single family houses.

He has also over the years accumulated a portfolio of cash flowing rental properties. He owns and operates a courier/delivery business in the Tampa Bay area which he started in 1991. Frank is involved in many REIA groups and in late 2007 was invited in to the exclusive Jack Miller group of investors where he learned the subtle art of real estate investing.

He formed many lasting friendships and gained knowledge from the finest real estate investors, instructors and mentors in the country who were around the table during those Miller sessions.

In late 2014 Frank took over the Miller Group meetings in Tampa and changed the name to the Tampa Bay Real Estate Investors Roundtable for seasoned and novice investors which he continues and expanded into the Bradenton market prior to COVID. Frank has recently joined the board of the Sarasota REIA and looks forward to continuing the good work set forth by previous board members. He currently moderates of the Sarasota REIA ZOOM meetings on the third Wednesday evening of every month.

Blair Milliken
Co Vice-President

Blair Milliken started his education in real estate investing in 1998 working with Late Night infomercial Dave Deldato as his trainer. Shortly thereafter he purchased his first home with no money down. The plan was to flip that waterfront house. However his family still live in that house today in Englewood, FL.

He has literally “moved houses”, fixed and flipped, bought and held, leased-optioned, and has worked with the best local and national trainers. During the “Great Recession” Blair lost it all and now is building back on a solid base of flipping contracts, managing his portfolio and acquiring owner financed/subject-to properties.

When not playing in the real estate he is an active member of Rotary and an Assistant Scout Master of Boy Scout Troop 26 in Englewood where his youngest son is working his way towards Eagle.

J Scott
Board Member

J Scott (he goes by “J”) is an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, author, and partner at Bar Down Investments, focused on buying and repositioning large multifamily properties. In the past fifteen years, J has bought, built, rehabbed, sold, lent-on and held over $160M in property around the country. J holds strategic advisor roles in several companies and is the author of five BiggerPockets books on real estate investing. Find out more about J and connect with him at www.JScott.com.

Bud Fraumeni
Vendor Program

Bud’s real estate investing career started in Massachusetts when he bought his first ‘3 decker’ at 22 years old. He then went on to own 25 apartments and renovated a number of single family homes before moving to Florida.

Professionally, Bud has completed over 250 commercial real estate transactions in 18 states for companies such as Applebee’s International, TGIFridays, Burger KIng Corporation, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, O’Charleys and Ninety Nine Restaurants. My responsibilities included site identification, market penetration analysis, lease negotiation, interaction with franchisees, presentations to Real Estate Executive Boards and governmental regulatory agencies.

He designed and implemented a database to monitor lease renewals, dispositions, repair, 24 hour emergency maintenance and routine re-imaging on over 100 properties as well as monitoring and analyzing the costs of each project from acquisition to disposition including post mortem summaries.

Bud’s education in engineering, construction, tax law and finance has given him a thorough understanding of IRR, ROI, budgets, schematics and blueprints – as well as how each is intertwined with the objectives of the client.

Bud is a licensed real estate broker and a Notary Public in Massachusetts and holds a Florida Broker’s license. In his spare time he likes to help out and is a platelet donor.

Trent Yoder
IT Manager

We could not pull off a successful meeting without the help of Trent Yoder.  Trent calmly and cooly handles the Zoom component of our meetings, speaker slide shows, microphone mishaps and all things computer and IT related.

Trent is an avid investor himself with a portfolio of single family and mobile homes.  He is also known to do a flip or wholesale deal when the opportunity presents itself.