Whether you're just starting or have years of experience, this is a meeting you won’t want to miss. Join this engaging and insightful panel featuring three seasoned investors who will reflect on their successes and challenges from 2024 and share their strategies for 2025.
Learn from real-life examples as these investors walk you through the projects they tackled, the lessons they learned, and the changes they’re making in their businesses for the year ahead.
Gain invaluable tips, tricks, and strategies that can help you navigate the ever-evolving real estate market. From buying and selling to rehabs and rentals, you’ll uncover their biggest wins and toughest challenges from 2024, along with their goals and playbooks for making 2025 their most successful year yet!
Meet the Panelists:
Paula Bickelman is the creator and co-owner of Find Solutions Properties (FSP). Inspired to make a BIG IMPACT in the community she loves, in just over 8 years in business, FSP has rehabbed 50 homes, primarily in upper Montgomery County. With the help of DIG and our investor family, she was inspired to push her passion forward and begin building our rental portfolio in 2020. Paula is a Villanova alumni having worked in retail/marketing most of her career, but transitioned to logistics in 2016. While working a J-O-B and running FSP full time, Paula enjoys an active family life with her husband (and FSP partner) Rob Bickelman, 2 adult children, 4 grandchildren and providing support to her mother turning 90 years young. Paula starts each day asking the same question: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?". The answer is yours.
Together Ralph and Karen Chiodo have successfully managed a Real Estate Carer for the last 25+ years. They started their career focusing on bank owned and foreclosure homes and quickly became one of the top teams in that field. With recent market changes, they have been able to shift into the residential luxury, farm, and residential space helping both buyers and sellers in all price points. They continue to be recognized as one of the top teams in their current company. They believe their honesty and integrity, along with the knowledge and experience, sets them apart from other agents, giving their clients everything they need to reach their Real Estate Goals.
For the past 3 years, Ralph & Karen and their partners have taken their knowledge and started Platinum 4 Properties LLC and have bought, renovated and sold many homes, primarily in the Montgomery County area. They love bringing older homes back to life while maintaining some of the craftsmanship and character of the original home.
With their partners, they have taken on some monumental projects and have shown how quality work really is what matters when renovating these homes. Ralph and Karen have 2 daughters that both purchased their first homes in 2024 making their parents super proud!!
Born and raised in Philly, I invest where I know best. I was invited to a DIG meeting in late 2015 and joined shortly after. I've been learning and growing my rental portfolio since. I owe much of my success to DIG members and speakers that have given me so much along the way. In 2020 business dropped 70% following covid, making the choice to go into RE full time for me.
In my spare time I'm a huge Phillies and Eagles fan, and have traveled as far as London to see a Phillies game. Married 37 years and growing, We are most proud of our 3 kids, the youngest of which I just made my final college payment for. I'm building my RE business not only for our retirement, but for our kids' future as well.
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BONUS: FREE EAGLES SUPER BOWL CHAMPS T-SHIRT
Join us LIVE and IN-PERSON for DIG’s main monthly meeting Thursday February 20, 2025. The first 100 DIG MEMBERS to sign in will get a FREE EAGLES SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS T-shirt
You MUST attend in person, and MUST be a paid DIG member
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Do you want a second or third shirt for someone else at home? We will have a few extras to sell at $20 each
Not able to attend, but you want to BUY a t-shirt?
$20 each or 3 for $50, plus $6 shipping
So come join us for a great panel discussion with 3 seasoned DIG investors who will share what they did in 2024, what worked, what didn’t, and how they plan to use that for 2025.
Moderated by Anil Dahm, with panelists Paula Bickelman, Ralph Chiodo, Todd Hesbacher
The first 100 to sign in starting at 6pm will get a ticket to take home a FREE shirt. Shirts will be given out starting at 8:30pm, so you must come and stay for at least part of the presentation.
Sizes may be limited and are on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Limit 1 free shirt per paid member and MUST be present to get a FREE shirt.
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