Rush Blakely is at the heart of RealtyCom Partners, managing the entire team, our strategic and financial vision for the company, as well as lending his negotiation skills for our client’s new development projects.

Rush quickly became an integral part of the team after joining RealtyCom in 2015, showing dogged determination with the various service providers to solicit the best level of service and compensation for our clients, while overseeing complex technical projects. He grew our business operations team and in 2016, relocated to our corporate office from Southern California.  In 2018, Rush was promoted to President. He brings diverse experience from senior leadership positions with Time Warner Cable (now Charter Spectrum) and Comcast where he led successful multifamily sales teams in Texas, California and North Carolina. He ran all sales channels for Logic/WestStar, a fiber to the home provider in the Cayman Islands. Prior to his career in telecommunications, Rush managed a construction lending portfolio with Wells Fargo Bank. He holds a BA in Finance from Texas A&M University, his birth state.

If you’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Rush directly, his love of motorcycles, poker-playing and fine Cuban cigars has […]

By Susan Krok

As 2020 winds down, we recognize we’re all experiencing deeply hard times from unemployment and business losses, illness, isolation, and the loss of loved ones. RealtyCom is fortunate to be able to continue operating remotely and honor this year’s season of giving by hosting a virtual Charitable Giving Contest with our team.

In lieu of volunteering our time and attending our annual charity dinner, we relied on our amazing team to nominate, teach us about their organization’s mission, and ultimately donated to charities closest to our hearts. It was illuminating to learn about charities we were not aware of, and to hear about the amazing work they are doing.

After overwhelming participation, we were hard-pressed to choose just one since they were all very worthy causes and in need more now than ever.  Thanks to Zoom we received immediate voting results, and are proud to announce RealtyCom’s charitable donations were made to the following:

• The Hidden Genius Project that trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities.
• The Gilead House offering hope to women and children in need, providing transitional housing, education, and therapeutic support that leads […]
  

By Cristy Boucher

Many of you probably took notice of the recent webinar “Paradigm Shift: Can Bulk Internet Finance Smart Buildings?” from Joshua Tree Conference Group sponsored by Cox Communications. The topic not only piqued my interest, but the well-respected panelists from Mill Creek Residential, Davis Craig, PLLC and Catalyst Innovation Lab who were set to talk. If you weren’t able to attend this informative session on whether implementing bulk Internet/Wi-Fi at your community could in fact fund your new technology initiatives, then here’s a brief glimpse into this much talked about topic.

RealtyCom has many clients we’re working with on bulk Internet and Wi-Fi implementation and enjoy talking with thought leaders and clients about their strategy in this ever-changing space.  You can find the full webinar recording and summary online at https://www.aimconf.com/blog-aim/bulk_internet.

Jeff Kok, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Information Officer at Mill Creek Residential Trust started by reviewing the resident experience. I think we all can agree this is essential to implement any type of bulk Internet strategy – if the service provided by the owner isn’t a better-quality product, that’s not only reliable, but fast and affordable, no matter how much you try it just won’t work.

From an owner’s […]