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A black estate developer built a massive real estate development company and a net worth of more than $700 million dollars. How? In the @AyeshaSelden spirit of normalizing black wealth, it’s time for a thread: 👇🏽
Roy Donahue “Don” Peebles is a real estate developer born in Washington D.C. in March of 1960. In 1979, after his freshman year at Rutgers, Peebles dropped out to become a real estate agent and appraiser. Why? 2/13
Originally, Peebles had his life planned out: join Rutgers as a pre-med student, become a doctor, use money to buy real estate. However, at 19 yrs old, Peebles thought “why wait?”, apprenticed at his mother’s real estate appraiser business, and then shortly launched his own. 3/13
