A Fortune in Free Real Estate: The Title-Holding Trust as a Money Making Tool
Bill Gatten is one of the few true "in-the-trenches" creative financing teachers who actually practices what he preaches. A highly successful real estate investor and much sought-after national speaker, Gatten's 45 years of work experience are in sales training, real estate investing, and institutional banking. He is the former co-owner and founder of Westlake Bancorp, and the former president and CEO of Gatten Financial Services, Inc. and Markay Equipment Leasing, Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California. Gatten was educated at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Jan Caldwell is a corporate and general business attorney. Raised in Illinois, she is a graduate of Kansas State University, Northwestern University, and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California. She has been a member of the Maryland bar since 1987. After 12 years in the Washington D.C. area working in government relations for a national trade association and in private practice as an attorney representing small and emerging businesses, Jan moved to California is now employed as the Business Manager and In-House Legal Counsel for North American Realty Services, Inc.