Realty411 Magazine Featuring Lori Greymont | Page 26
Choose YOUR
Lifestyle on
PURPOSE
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By Linda Pliagas
t’s 2015, welcome to to Lori’s
world. With a busy family of
homeschoolers, a thriving real
estate advisory, and a farm to
mange in prime Silicon Valley,
Lori Greymont is a 21st century
pioneer woman. Besides juggling
a busy family and business life as
the CEO of Summit Assets Group,
Greymont also manges a productive
and busy farm with a menagerie of
animals. It’s a life planned deliberately
and made possible by the benefits of
real estate investing.
Greymont, who has been investing
since her early 20s, purchases,
Lori Greymont enjoys a simple country
life in high-tech Silicon Valley.
“I live on an acre and a half in Morgan Hill. In the Midwest
where I grew up, this would be a postage stamp! Here in
Silicon Valley, it’s a good amount of land. We have horses,
chickens, dogs, cats and up until a year ago, two milk cows.”
Greymont in the hope of helping others to
choose their lifestyle on purpose as well.
manages and sells assets throughout
the United States for herself as well as
hundreds of clients. While Greymont
and the majority of her clients live in
one of the most expensive areas of the
nation, when it comes to investing in
rentals, they prefer to venture out of
state. In particular, Greymont seems to
gravitate to Southern markets: Atlanta
and Birmingham have been favorite
spots. Recently, Linda Pliagas, the
founder and editor, interviewed
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took action, and went for it. We moved in,
started work, ripping out carpet, tearing
out walls, hanging sheetrock, all the while
living in the “broken” house. She later
traded this house for another house and
we started all over. This may not seem
like that big of a deal, but this was over 25
years ago in a small Midwest town where
stereotypes were the norm and change-
makers were not often welcomed. It didn’t
deter her the least bit.
Linda Pliagas: How did you get started in
real estate investing?
Lori Greymont: I grew up in an
environment of real estate, but in an
unorthodox way. It all started when my
mom negotiated with a seller to buy and
fix his house, if he would be the lender.
She didn’t attend any fancy seminar or
the like; she just knew what she wanted,
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