Don Eichstaedt - Board Member

Don Eichstaedt (and his wife Nancy) have been rental property owners for over 24 years and members of REIA for over 23 years. They are now in a retirement/cash flow mode. They have been involved with single family home rentals, a few rehabs, land, tax sales, mortgages, lease/options and land contracts. They do most of the minor work on their houses themselves, hiring out the big jobs. They took classes from Marvin Rich, Chuck Wilson and Gary Segatti. Don was president of REIA for 4 years and has been on the board for nearly 20 years. He was also president of the state association, the Rental Property Owners Assoc. of Michigan (RPOAM) for 2 years. He currently is their Secretary and the REIA delegate, monitoring and working on legislation in Lansing. Don has been a REIA delegate to National Real Estate Investors Assoc. (NaREIA) for about 20 years. Don retired from Ford Motor Company after working in Special Vehicles and Advanced Vehicles on many special cars, concept cars, race cars and workhorse prototypes. His biggest projects were: supervising the build of the 1967 LeMans (France) 24 Hour race winning Ford GT 40 Mark IV race cars; he was in charge of the design, build and service of the 1972 Lincoln Presidential Limousine used by presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan. Don graduated from General Motors Institute with an engineering degree. He was collecting cars before they started collecting houses.