About Us

"We believe that a good partnership is one where everyone wins together."

Home Invest started with one goal that stands firm today: to help individuals create generational wealth that produces a positive ripple around the world.

Our Story

In 2014, Nate Armstrong set off on a mission to create a corporate “home” full of rewarding investment opportunities that helps truly people pursue and achieve financial freedom safely through real estate investment.

He began investing in single-family homes, flipping for himself and for others. Nate and his early team perfected the process through 500+ transactions and gained the respect of two Hedge Funds who believed in Home Invest’s mission and funded future growth. In the first four years, the firm quickly amassed 1,400 properties and grew our business by 1,418%. Nate and his Chief Operating Officer Rodney Kelley built a property management company and sold it to a national firm.

Original co-founder Dragan Berger was an essential partner to the company’s early success, and still serves as an active advisor and member of Home Invest’s Board of Directors. Mr. Berger helped Nate pave a path that led Home Invest to debut as an INC 500 award winner as one of America’s fastest growing private companies #352 in 2018. The company also won a prestigious 2 comma club award from ClickFunnels in the same year.

The company’s success cemented its corporate purpose to help others win at life as a company created to serve others. That’s why Home Invest openly shares our learnings and experiences through Home Invest Academy to help others build their real estate investment acumen and a profitable portfolio.

We seek to educate, encourage and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs through our fund investments, and our Academy Training programs.

In 2024, Home Invest was blessed by a sizeable equity investment from Chris Lavin, the founder of BrightCove Investments, who has long been an investor and friend of the firm and stepped into his current role as Co-CEO of Home Invest.

Home Invest’s team had long admired Mr. Lavin as a professional businessman but it is his personal experiences of how he turned early personal adversity into real estate prominence that made him Nate’s perfect partner and Co-CEO. Overcoming childhood homelessness has shaped his determination and approach to business. In real estate, Chris combines his entrepreneurial success with a commitment to social impact, especially in aiding underprivileged children.

In every business venture he pursues, he applies his expertise to strategically grow the company while ensuring its success contributes to societal well-being. Today, Home Invest has become a faith-forward investment management firm and financial steward that places capital profitably into strategic real estate properties and businesses.

We are diversified fund managers with more than $110MM in transactions across multifamily, industrial manufacturing, office and single-family homes. And, we’re just warming up…

Our Company

What do we do today?

Home Invest is a private investment manager that sources real estate investments and deploys capital into profitable properties and enterprises.

How do we do it differently than most?

Home Invest is a private investment manager that sources real estate investments and deploys capital into profitable properties and enterprises.

1.Our Values

At Home Invest, we are proud to be a faith-based organization focused on Kingdom Work. Our values are rooted in our belief in Jesus Christ, and we strive to uphold these values in everything we do. Our commitment to integrity, compassion, service, teamwork, and excellence guides us in our interactions with our investors, employees, and the community at large.

We believe that our faith is a fundamental part of who we are and that it shapes the way we conduct business. We provide a platform where people can safely invest in real estate to create a passive income with inflation protection.

We believe that by operating with our core values, we can make a positive impact on the world.

We operate with a commitment to integrity, compassion and excellence in every interaction and decision aligned to our values:

Faith

Family

Friends

Fulfillment

Fearlessness

Philantrophy

We welcome people of all faiths and backgrounds to join us in our mission. Whether you are a client, employee, or partner, we value and respect your views and believe that together, we can create a better future for ourselves and those around us.

2.Shared Financial Contributions:

We invest our company’s capital alongside individual, limited investment partners via private equity funds and syndications, then share out the gains equitably for mutual benefit. We invest directly with sellers, removing intermediaries and inflated costs while protecting upside. We also hold the burden of managing our property portfolio, allowing our investors to passively invest, while we do the rest.

3.Our Philanthropic Commitments

We fulfill our Godly responsibility by serving and growing our community through non-profit initiatives that build communities of believers (in God and our platform)!

Home Invest School

Our investments support the communities in which we do business with home-based schooling.

Home Invest Kids

Gives back to our communities while creating the next generation of faithful investors. We put the wellbeing of our children first and create faith-first communities where values are upheld: Vision, Health, Harmony.

Our Executive Team

Home Invest has cultivated top talent from around the industry to create a deeply committed team who all #BelieveinMore for the company, its investors and employees.

Nate Armstrong,

Co-Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Chris Lavin,

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Rodney Kelley,

Chief Operating Officer

Kate Whetstone,

Chief Financial Offer/Chief Accounting Offer

Paige Steers,

Chief Marketing Officer

Chris Strickland,

Director of Education, Co-Chief Executive Officer

Get in touch with us now:

Home Invest LLC

Bianco Healthy Homes LLC

5342 Clark Road #3080

Sarasota, Florida 34233

Media Relations or Speaking Requests:

Contact: Paige Steers: [email protected]

If you’d like to learn more about how to partner with Home Invest, reach out today to [email protected]