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Maverick Investor Group
Scours the Globe for the
Best Investment Properties
Interview by Linda Pliagas
W
ith a name like Maverick, one
immediately expects the unex-
pected. Real estate with a hip
and a bit of a rebellious twist.
Maverick Investor Group delivers all that
and more. It is a real estate brokerage that
caters to a community of sophisticated real
estate investors and agents, all of whom are
committed to using real estate as a vehicle
for designing their lifestyles. The broker-
age is licensed with its primary office in
Las Vegas, but the Maverick principals all
live in different states, work from laptops
on rooftop pool decks, and travel the globe
in search of premium buying opportunities
for their exclusive clientele.
Maverick negotiates directly with devel-
opers and owners for prices and terms that
are not available to the public. The buying
power of the Maverick community enables
developers to move more properties in less
time and save money on advertising, mar-
keting and other normal overhead. This al-
lows them to offer special prices and terms
to buyers in the Maverick community that
they could not offer to the general public.
Indeed, the traditional brick-and-mor-
tar neighborhood brokerage dedicated to
farming a five-mile radius, driving buyers
around and sitting at open houses seems
like an archaic business model next to
Maverick.
Even more avant-garde than their busi-
ness model is their corporate vision: “To
Mark Solak

Valerie Schrock
Matt Bowles
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radically improve people’s lives through
real estate.”
And their radical approach to real estate
is working. Even during 2009, in a single
90-day period, the company was able to
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close as many as 34 transactions and pay
out nearly a quarter of a million dollars in
buyer referral fees to real estate brokers in
the Maverick Referral Network.
Maverick’s business model, including
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the international component, is just a con-
tinuation of the global lifestyle enjoyed by
its principals. The company was founded
by Mark Solak, Valerie Schrock and Mat-
thew Bowles — real estate investors >

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