15 Things You Need to Know This Morning

Title: SVP and multifamily practice director, Delta Associates.
Job: Consulting and market analysis.
Years on the job: 13.
Memorable project: The Wharf. Worked it four years and final meeting with client was during late-winter snowstorm. Roads weren’t plowed and had to walk to the meeting from home.
Current project: Increasing consulting work outside of mid-Atlantic, including Charleston, Cleveland, Knoxville, Chattanooga and Bluffton, SC.
Why CRE: Loved Monopoly as a kid. Also traveled to Brooklyn every weekend in 80s and 90s to visit grandmother. Always marveled at NYC architecture and dreamed of revitalizing dilapidated buildings.
Grew up: Warren County, NJ.
Current home: DC.
Schools: American University and Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile.
First job: Office assistant at American’s Kogod School of Business.
Job in another life: Weather Channel meteorologist. 
Daily habits: Read real estate pubs and exercise.
Favorite app: Kayak.
Favorite TV series: House of Cards and Game of Thrones.
Favorite restaurants: Tono Sushi and Ghibellina.
Favorite music: Merengue and salsa. 
Favorite vacation spot: West Bay Beach in Roatan, Honduras.
Guilty pleasure: Saturday morning reality TV marathon.
Family: Two nephews (9 and 2) and niece (7). 
Hobbies: Travel and write neighborhood blog on Southwest DC development called Southwest…The Little Quadrant That Could.
Startling fact: Was Wheel of Fortune contestant in 2001 while in college. Won $1k solving bonus puzzle and an espresso machine as a consolation prize.