My Family Told Me Not to Show Up to the Baby Shower—So I Sent a Helicopter Instead

small properties, but entire portfolios. Apartment complexes. Commercial buildings. Residential developments. Over seven years, I’d built a real estate empire worth approximately two point eight billion dollars.

I owned properties in seventeen states. I had a home in Boston, yes—a penthouse in the city’s most exclusive building—but also homes in Manhattan,continue reading …