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Below you'll find recent news about Ron and a few of his diverse activities.

 

Ron's Companies Launch State of the Art Online Property Management & Accounting System - January 2011 

Ron's companies continue to thrive and grow, having weathered the economic downturn all in stride.  Today activities are happening faster than ever so Ron's team of IT and real estate managers worked hard to find and evaluate a low cost, high function, state of the art online system for managing the rental inventory of Ron's companies.  A few of the criteria to be met included:  cloud based, secure, fast, handle both property management and general accounting, support for mulitiple companies and varied partners by company, and at a reasonable price point.

After evaluation of some 40 programs, the companies selected Buildium as the program of choice.  Go live date was 1/1/2012.

This program will allow all of Ron's company's tenants to login and very their account history, will automate notices to tenants and will provide a full history for tenants online of notices sent to them.  Future options may be implemented to allow online payments if sufficient interest is received.


Ron is Guest of Honor and Speaker at Cunningham Isshin-Ryu  Founder Tim Cunningham's 60th B-day Celebration - Tarboro, NC - February 4, 2012

Ron was honored to speak at Master Tim Cunningham's birthday party at the Tarboro, NC karate school.  When Tim came to Tarboro in mid 1982, Ron was one his first class of four students.  Ron, who has been active in numerous martial arts to varying degress since first joining karate class in Tarboro  in January 1981, recalls many stories from his journey with Tim, who todays remains one of Ron's closest and most admired friends.  Tim Cunningham's school can be found in at the Mall in Tarboro, NC.

Ron's Company Launches Redevelopment of Leisure Village, Pinetops, NC - December 2011 

In 2007 Key Property Investments, LLC, one of Ron's companies formed in 2002, acquired an entire neighborhood of houses and mobile homes.  This month two remaining structures were removed paving the way for new homes to be moved into this neighborhood. Consisting of Ron's company's rental homes along wtih owner occupied mobile homes on land owned by Ron's companies, this neighborhood is an attractive,  quiet neighborhood nestled in the beautiful southern part of Pinetops.   The homes Ron's company intends to relocate to the area will be moved from a neighborhood Ron's company bought up sections of in 2004 with the intend of commercial development which is now being set into motion.  Due to clearing of unsalvagable properties and renovation of the properties that were appropriate renovation candidates, the Pinetops neighborhood property values have doubled, and the rental properties  are on a waiting list basis.  

One of Ron's missions in life is to help people, and by drastically improving this once depressed neighborhood Ron changed the lives forever of the long term residents. 

Ron Speaks in Washington, DC - September 2011 

Ron visits the Autovation Conference in the Washington, DC area where he delivers an insightful presentation to a group of utiilty stakeholders sharing a highly successful utility case study for the deployment of smart metering devices and communication networks for measurement of electricity and water on residential homes and businesses, and lessons learned.

Ron is Appointed Vice President, Smart Grid Solutions at Elster Solutions - Raleigh , NC - June 2011

Ron was appointed Vice President of Smart Grid Solutions for Elster Solutions, a division of Elster Group, a global company based out of Germany, and the worlds largest provider of metering devices for the measurement of earth's vital resources of electric, water, and gas.  In this role Ron will be  leading a dynamic team of professionals helping guide the direction of Elster's Smart Grid offerings.

Ron's life mission is to affect in a positve way the lives of others and by working with Elster, one of the worlds leading smart grid providers, Ron is able to have a tangible impact on the development of technologies that will help enable energy use to continue improving our lives for decades to come.

 

 

 

 





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2/5/2012