President

Joe Locklear

A Licensed General Contractor since 1989, Joe Locklear’s resume includes small home repairs, multi-million dollar commercial projects and historic restorations. In addition to managing a real estate wholesaling company, Joe stays busy operating his contracting business and building his personal rental portfolio. Joe enjoys sharing his expertise with JaxReia members via various teaching venues including classes on renovations, wealth building and business planning.

Vice President

Lisa Broward

Lisa Broward has a Masters Degree in Health Care from the University of North Florida and is currently employed full-time in State government. She has thirty years of experience in administration in the health care and social service fields. She is a native of Jacksonville, and is a member of Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. and Leadership Jacksonville. She and her husband Lee Hughes have been active members of JaxREIA for several years.

Secretary

Stuart Kube

Stuart Kube has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The Institute of Technology in Rome, N.Y. He started attending JaxREIA in 2000 and became a Board Member in 2002. He served in that capacity till 2006 when he became the Secretary for JaxREIA. Stuart has been investing in real estate full time since 2002. He feels that volunteerism is the best way to give back to the community and to continue the tradition of helping others learn about investing in real estate.

Education Chairperson

Lovee Agnihotri

Lovee Agnihotri is a graduate of the University of New Delhi (B.A.).  He moved to Jacksonville in 2002 and has been a Jax REIA member and real estate investor since then.  Prior to moving to Jacksonville, he ran his own company up in New York for over 20 years.  He became a Board Member in 2004 and also serves as the chairperson of the Education Committee.  He enjoys volunteering his time for the club in appreciation of all of the opportunities that Jax REIA has provided him in attaining his success in his real estate ventures.

Communications Chairperson

Mike Whiffen

Michael Whiffen has been on the Board of Directors since 2002, is a QuickStart instructor, and has served as Editor of the JaxREIA newsletter since 2003.  His family owned rental property while he was growing up.  This allowed him to learn the business at a young age, and he knew he wanted to keep investing in RE.  Engineering distracted him from real estate in the 1990s, however, he could not get it out of his system, so he started seriously investing again in 2002.  Mike does a mix of work, including wholesaling, rentals, retailing, and rehabs of single family, multi-family, and commercial properties.  “JaxREIA has really helped me out, and I enjoy giving back.”

Quickstart Instructor

Tom Futch

Tom Futch is a QuickStart Instructor, hard money lender and seasoned real estate investor in Jacksonville.

Ed Tindell is a JaxREIA member since 2002. Wanting to give back to the Association after only his first year of membership, he began volunteering for REIA. Ed understands that your best investment is the one you make in yourself, your education and your local REIA. For the past two and a half years, Ed has done numerous Options, Rehabs and Flips on single family residential properties.

Sam Katz holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the George Washington University. He retired from USAF in 1974. Sam has served on several volunteer agency boards in the past. Sam & his wife Vivian (VHK,Inc.) have been JaxREIA members since Feb. 2003 and have been dealing in Real Estate investments since that time.

Landlord Networking Group

David Doyle

David bought his first rental property, a triplex, after getting out of the Navy in 1971. He moved to Kentucky in the mid 70’s where he had an automotive business and a motorsports production company. After moving to Jacksonville in 1992, he again got back into rental housing business. Putting a down payment on a few rental duplexes and letting others pay off the note looked like a good retirement plan. He has been a participant the last five years on the MrLandLord.com annual landlord conference cruise and has been recognized as one of the top contributors to the MrLandLord.com Q&A discussion board. Today he tends to his rentals, buys and sells a few properties, and moderates the JaxREIA Landlord Networking Group.

Membership Chairperson

Amita Agnihotri

Prior to moving to Jacksonville, Amita Agnihorti was the president of a successful business in the fashion industry in New York City for over twenty years. She, along with her husband moved to Jacksonville in 2002 and have been investing in real estate since then. She rehabs, sells property and keep some of them as rentals.  In addition to this, Amita is also a licensed Realtor

Corporate Partners/PR

Christian Rambler

Christian Rambler is the owner/broker of Navigator Mortgage Inc., a residential mortgage broker business licensed in Florida and Mississippi. He has more than 12 years experience in the mortgage business and founded NMI in 2002.  Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended college in Ohio at Kent State University, and lived in Indianapolis, Indiana for 7 years prior to moving to Jacksonville in 2002.  He has been a member and Corporate Sponsor of JaxREIA since then.  Christian continues to manage a growing mortgage business and is an active real estate investor himself.

Personally he enjoys fishing, golf, travel, and spending quality time with his three children and wife of 12 years.

Master Series Coordinator

Doug Johnston

Membership/Communications

Louzonteno Johnson

Being a member of JaxREIA has allowed Teno to network with more seasoned investors, who have shared their cliff notes to better investing.

He encourages all new investors to join JaxREIA and make a commitment to attend all the Quick Start Classes.  He truly believes this will assist them in building their business on a solid foundation.  No Pun Intended.

  Kristina Obenza is our Executive Director.

Associate Director

  Jamie Richardson is our Associate Director