Charlie Kennedy President / Co-Founder of Healstone Investment Real Estate
Charlie graduated college at Southern Oregon State University where he was a two time All-American wrestler. Charlie is an innovative and very energetic leader / entrepreneur with a diverse array of talents and experiences.
After college he started as a door to door life insurance salesman in South Central Los Angeles. As a top producer averaging over two policies per day for two years, he was recruited by Metropolitan Life as a sales manager and promoted to become the youngest regional manager in the firm nationwide. From there he went on to open two additional branch offices in Southern California where he hired, trained and mentored over 60 new agents. In addition, he has successfully traded millions of dollars in commodities softwood from the Pacific Northwest into the So. Cal market, has built and lead a 6,000+ member network marketing organization, and has also started and built a Debt Negotiations firm where he reduced & eliminated over $ 2,000,000 worth of his business clients debts. Charlie is also the founder and head coach of Saddleback Mat club a youth wrestling club in Orange County.
In 1998, Charlie turned the page and with no prior real estate sales experience, joined Sperry Van Ness as a team leader to hire, train, and mentor a team of successful junior agents. After training and developing the most productive team of junior agents in the firm, Kennedy was promoted to sales manager and national trainer where he built and maintained the number one office in the nation for the company for four years in a row before leaving management to produce and train for himself full time. During his first year as a commission agent he was the highest paid rookie of the year in the firm’s 15 year history. By the end of his second year he had earned over 1.5 million in brokerage fees and was the # 3 agent in the firm. Although Charlie’s focus is multifamily he has successfully closed transactions in many product types including Retail, Industrial, Office, Hospitality, Self Storage & Land.
In January 2004 Charlie partnered with long time friend Will Allen created Healstone Investment Real Estate, a fully integrated Real Estate company focused on serving multi-family clients both private and institutional. In the companies first 4 years Healstone Brokerage has closed over 197+ transactions totaling over $ 560,000,000 in sales. Healstone Property Management currently manages over 1,800+ units and growing rapidly. Healstone Construction & Development professionals have facilitated and completed the complete remediation and or rehabilitation of more than 3,800 units.
Charlie was featured in the Real Estate Southern California magazine’s Top 40 under 40 Real Estate Professionals in Southern California and is an active member and trade show speaker for many of the Southern California apartment associations. Although a success coach himself, he is also a member of Vistage International which is an association of CEO’s and key executives from various different industries. Charlie also enjoys guest speaking to Real Estate students at various so. California colleges.
Charlie’s passion is to create value for both clients and Healstone agents by providing a platform where clients and agents can benefit from a full spectrum of multifamily services including Brokerage, Property Management, Construction & Development, Finance, Escrow and Syndication which will allow Healstone agents to be true consultants and to assist our clients through the entire process of accomplishing both their short and long term investment objectives. |
