Maryuri Barberan is comptroller and executive vice president of Pentagon Properties, Inc.  Pentagon Properties owns and manages four communities comprising about 500 lots in Georgia and Texas, and has sold over 300 new and previously owned manufactured homes via Lease-Option contracts over the past 25 years.  Exceptionally low default rates are achieved with new Community Series Homes (CSH) and very thorough underwriting of L-O “buyers”.  Maryuri holds a B.S. degree in real estate and finance from Georgia State University.

Jeff Buice has over 16 years of experience in both the Financial Services and Information Technology Consulting Industries. He specializes in providing comprehensive wealth planning strategies and investment management advice to high net worth individuals, families, and business owners. In addition to his responsibilities as Partner and Senior Investment Advisor at GENCapital, Jeff leads the team’s financial planning initiatives and believes all clients should have a good understanding of both their financial and life goals.
Prior to co-founding GENCapital, Jeff was a Financial Advisor with UBS Financial Services, Inc. for nine years. His previous experience of over two and a half decades in a family owned and operated real estate business gives Jeff the background needed to provide the teams’ more real estate centric families advice beyond traditional wealth management. Therefore, through a consultative approach, Jeff can assist GENCapital clients with their liquid investments as well as help advise them on real estate acquisitions, bank financing, bank/loan negotiation, and more.
Jeff holds the Certified Financial PlannerTM designation as well as a B.A. from the University of Georgia, where he earned a double major in both Finance and Management Information Systems. Jeff and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters and reside in Roswell, Georgia. He is an Atlanta native and is a member of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, Financial Planning Association, and the University of Georgia Alumni Association. He appreciates the outdoors – especially fishing and hunting, University of Georgia football and his family.

Steve Case has owned and operated 13 different manufactured home communities since 1999. He co-founded Mobile Home University in 2005 to provide a training platform and an environment for investors to help maximize their success in this asset class. MHU was subsequently sold in 2011 to Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds. Steve has served on the Georgia Manufactured Housing Association Board of Directors and has been a part of SECO since its inception. His expertise also includes self storage, which is the bulk of his portfolio. He is very active in helping those in the manufactured housing and self storage industries.

Paula Andrea Garzon is a current third year biology student and is part of the Honors College at Georgia State University. Her mother, Luz Marina Amaya, has worked with Pentagon Properties Inc. for many years and Paula has grown up learning the core values of the Mobile Home Industry from many mentors of the business such as Spencer Roane, Maryuri Barberan, and Genevieve Ketelle. With a planning team of great individuals in this years SECO17 planning committee guiding her steps in the planning process, she is positive the SECO17 symposium will be a beneficial experience for all attendees!

Genevieve Ketelle

Tom Lackey

Robert T. Love, CPM, is President and founder of Love Properties, Inc., an Atlanta-based AMO, full service, real estate firm.  Love Properties, Inc. is presently operating about 1,000 multi-family units in addition to several commercial properties.  Love Properties, Inc. has developed or managed 115 income-producing properties over the last 40 years, with a value in excess of $575,000,000.
Mr. Love is a graduate of the University of Miami and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University.

Mr. Love is a past president and director of the Atlanta Apartment Association and the Georgia Apartment Association and past director and secretary of the Georgia Manufactured Housing Association.  Love Properties, Inc. is also a member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS®.

Mr. Love was appointed to serve a 5 year term as a commissioner on the Georgia Real Estate Commission in 2006 and as Chairman in 2011.

Within the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), Mr. Love was the National President in 1993.  He also served as President of the Atlanta Chapter of IREM in 1981 and 1982, and was elected Property Manager of the Year for the Atlanta Chapter in 1983 and 1990.

Mr. Love was inducted into the Georgia Apartment Association Hall of Fame in 2011.

Larry Mathews

Spencer Roane, president of Pentagon Properties, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., owns and manages four land lease communities in Georgia and Texas. His firm has sold over 300 new & previously-owned manufactured homes in his communities over the past 25 years via Lease-Option contracts. Over the past 6+ years they sold and seller-financed over 50 new manufactured homes with only 3 defaults.  Since passage of the S.A.F.E. & Dodd-Frank Acts he has written about and spoken often to advocate use of Lease-Option contracts to sell new and pre-owned manufactured homes in communities in most states. He is a member of the Georgia Manufactured Housing Association where he served as an officer and member of the board of directors.  He served on the National Communities Council (NCC) and the Disaster Housing Task Force of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI).  He is one of the organizers of the Southeast Community Owners (SECO) conference which attracts 150-200 small and mid-size community owners annually. Spencer holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. degree in Industrial Management, and both Mortgage Loan Originator and Mortgage Broker S.A.F.E. Act licenses.  Contact him at spencer@roane.com or (678) 428-0212. Pentagon Properties, Inc. website. Linkedin profile.

David Roden is president and CEO of MVE, Inc., a manufactured housing community called Mountain View Estates located in Rossville, Ga.  In 1988 David left the steel industry in Chattanooga, Tn and began the process of purchasing and breaking ground on their 46 acre development. David oversaw every step of construction and  development, much of it he did with his equipment.  With a strong desire towards volunteer work, David was PTA President of his children’s school leading them to the highest award Tennessee state PTA of the year.  Mr. Roden also co- founded a Chattanooga area non profit group called EREC, which was formed to bridge a gap between schools and the business community.  He spent a year with a group of volunteers to build a 15,000 sq. ft. playground in one week in East Ridge Tennessee when thousands of members of the community brought their tools and built the playground for the area. His proudest accomplishments are his family Judy, Katie and Andrew and working at Mountain View Estates with his Dad for the past 20 years. Judy and David live in their community and love their manufactured home and the park lifestyle.

Judy Roden

Mark Titshaw made the transition from single family home investments to mobile home communities beginning in 2003.  His first community was a weekly rental community which was converted to an owner-occupied monthly lot rental community.  Since that time he has built up a small portfolio of communities in the North Atlanta area, and also manages a few additional communities for other owners.  His specialty is operating owner-occupied communities, and he  also has been very active in providing installment sales contracts and leases with purchase options to residents who wish to purchase homes on previously vacant lots.

Jay Zandman, originally from New Jersey, moved  in 1977 to Atlanta, where he met his wife Shelley 36 years ago.

People (including Shelley) said it would not last…

Jay bought his first park in 1986. Realizing that he could only control the expense side of the business, he ultimately became an insurance agent in part to learn which carriers had the most competitive premiums. This allowed him not only to bring down his insurance costs, but also help other community owners around the country reduce their costs. You can reach Jay at the Manning & Nozick Insurance Agency.

He is one of the initial organizers of the Southeast Community Owners (SECO) conference which attracted approximately 60 people in its first year.  Eight years later we expect over 300 small and mid-size community owners this year.