Tanen Andrews (Real Estate Investing for the Underserved)

During his early twenties as an entrepreneur in 1995, Tanen Andrews first started his real estate investment business alongside his transportation and logistics company.

In 1996, Tanen invested and renovated his first single-family home in Arlington, Texas with the assistance of his mentor. Six months later in 1997, Tanen sold the property for a 5-figure profit, which was the transaction that later led to a 32-unit portfolio acquisition of single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, and four-plexes in the Fort Worth, Texas area. This property acquisition was unique because he bought the private company that owned the real estate holdings.

In 1998, Tanen bought a 13-unit apartment complex in Fort Worth, Texas that he renovated and kept for investment. It was not until 2003 when he teamed with a local builder in a multimillion-dollar deal to acquire 25 new construction single-family homes in the Southwest Dallas area. Taking about 6 to 8 months to close, all the properties in the deal were held for investment that would go on to greatly benefit the subsidized housing market in that area.

As the years moved forward, Mr. Andrews continued educating the community about properly setting up and structuring business entities, investing in real estate, and instilling the importance of the financial power of pooling capital resources for financial independence. 

Tanen established his company’s cooperative methodology nearly 25 years ago, but current legislation was not adopted at the time to enable its ideological pursuit. The purpose of this dynamic methodology’s implementation is to bring awareness to the forefront of marginalized societies that shows the true financial power of crowdfunding collaboration.

The time of equitable change is upon us.