When Taylor Johnson client Renovo Financial, Chicago’s leading private lender to residential real estate investors, followed up its record-breaking 2016 by hiring former Fannie Mae leader Peter Poidomani as its new EVP of portfolio management, we knew the MReport would be interested. Not only has Renovo loaned more than $250 million to residential real estate investors on revitalization projects valued in excess of $400 million since its founding in 2011, but it also doubled its revenue in 2016. To read more about Poidomani’s move and the deep bench of residential real estate investors/flippers drawn to the Midwest, click here.