Rein USA is made possible through the combined efforts of many talented individuals with one common goal, helping real estate investors realize their dreams. The members of the Rein Board of Advisors are among the top professionals in their respective fields and have a proven track record of success.

Peter Harris
Gary M. Taff, M.D.
Lon Welsh

Peter Harris
Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate Advisor

Born and raised in the city of San Francisco, Peter Harris has had a life-long dream of starting an elementary school for at-risk kids. Peter is definitely on track to achieving that goal. And his real estate endeavors and teaching are definitely connected to one another.

Peter was an engineer in the optics and telecommunications industry from 1992 to his leaving the corporate world in January 2004.

A key life event transpired Peter's life. It was the gift of having a mentor entrenched into his every day. The mentor was a very wise and great man named Nick Tsujimoto.

Almost overnight, Peter became a serious student of real life and pursued his hunger for personal growth. His mentor continually pushed him to the edge, but provided a soft place to land. Back in February 2000, he purchased his first real estate investment property, a single family home to rent. By the end of 2003, he owned and operated hundreds of apartment units on the west coast, in the Midwest , and on the east coast.

Soon Peter began to see that life had so much more to offer if you were willing to step out of the box. "Life rewards action", became Peter's standard of living. On January 2, 2004, Peter resigned from his job in order to dedicate himself to his life mission and life purpose and to pursue his real estate passion full-time.

Peter continues to push his own envelope and his students' envelopes, while purchasing investments nationwide. He imparts his knowledge to clients across the U.S. and hopes to instill in them the concept of "Learn-Do-Teach" as it is embedded in him.

In 2006, Peter has just completed and published an audio educational real estate investment product with Donald Trump entitled, "Three Master Secrets of Real Estate Success". It is sold in all of the name brand bookstores nationally.

Besides real estate, Peter's passions include, hanging out with his son, tutoring elementary children, serving at the church, trail running, and cycling.

Gary M. Taff, M.D.
Real Estate Investor

Dr. Gary Taff brings to Rein USA a unique perspective on real estate investing. Born in New Jersey , and schooled in New York City , Gary followed a well-worn family tradition by becoming a physician. As a foreshadow of a life-long tendency towards "getting there first", he started college at the age of 16 and became a doctor after just turning 23.

Gary attained Board-Certification in Emergency Medicine in the first year of that field of medicine's recognition as a specialty. He went on to direct several hospital emergency departments in Southern California . In 1983, Gary opened one of the nations' first urgent care centers. He grew that first site into a seven medical center, 70 employee, 60,000 patient visits-per-year medical group. This achievement earned Gary several awards, including the California Inland Empire Crescendo Award, Small Business Person of the Year and finally, Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1993.

Gary sold his medical group in 1998 at the peak of the health-care market cycle, and moved to Northern California . After creating a hospital-based occupational medicine program and directing an ambulance company, Gary turned his attention to real estate investing.

Despite previously negative experiences of "buying high and selling low", he started with $ 20,000 capital, and used equity sharing, intensive market research and an eye for buying the best deal in emerging small to medium- sized markets. This plan allowed Gary to purchase 119 properties in 13 states over a four year period, and develop a portfolio of over $ 9 million with a net equity of over $ 4 million. The portfolio spanned a wide range of residential properties from single family homes to condos, duplex to fourplexes, rehab projects, condo conversions and multi-unit apartment complexes. Gary is most proud of the fact that his portfolio has achieved a 39% per annum appreciation rate, mainly based on buying below market value.

Over the past two years, Gary has turned his attention to wholesaling, in which he buys multiple properties at significant discounts and then sells or assigns the properties to investors at prices below current market values. He has served as the Northern California Area Manager for a nation-wide clearing-house type of real estate network, and gives seminars on value investing.

Lon Welsh
Your Castle Real Estate
Owner

Your Castle Real Estate (YCRE) provides development, brokerage, appraisal and lending services to residential, investor and commercial clients.  To help clients obtain maximum value, Lon Welsh, the founder, developed a proprietary software package that evaluates all of the properties for sale in a market and determines which 2% represent the best values.  The enables, for example, first time buyers to get homes with nothing down without appraisal problems, contractors to find fix and flip projects with substantial upside, and investors to find rentals with better cash flow.  The pricing engine covers most major markets in North America and has several patents pending.  The Denver Business Journal awarded Mr. Welsh the Apartment Heavy Hitter Award for his achievement of personally selling over $10 million in real estate per year, in both 2004 and 2005.

Mr. Welsh and his team of more than thirty brokers complete several hundred transactions per year for their clients and their personal portfolios.  He has personally overseen eight home renovation projects and currently owns nine apartment buildings with 110 rental units.  His is author of two mentorship books: "Fundamentals of Real Estate Investing" and "Advanced Real Estate Investing."   Both books include eight audio CDs and analytical templates.  His book, "The Impatient Investor," will be published in late 2006.  Mr. Welsh is a frequent speaker at real estate investing clubs and on investing radio shows. 

Prior to founding YCRE, Mr. Welsh spent eight years working as a consultant, first with Deloitte & Touche and later with Arthur Andersen (Accenture).  At Deloitte, he managed merger and acquisition strategy and integration engagements.  At Accenture, Mr. Welsh was a senior manager providing strategy and operations consulting services to communications and high tech clients.  Much of his work revolved around defining a conceptual solution to a strategic problem, then designing and implementing integrated systems, processes and training to provide the client with a sustainable competitive advantage.  One of his research projects won the Firm's top prize in an annual thought leadership competition.

Mr. Welsh also held several finance and accounting positions with Kimberly-Clark, a Fortune 100 consumer products company.  He has a BBA in Finance from the University of Iowa and an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt.