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    Bryan Smith is the Chief Operating Officer of American Homes 4 Rent, an internally managed REIT, focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing and operating attractive, single-family homes as rental properties. As of June 30, 2020, they owned 53,000 single-family properties in selected submarkets in 22 states. Previously, Smith was an Executive Vice President and President of Property Management for the company after serving as its the Senior Vice President of Acquisitions in 2011 to 2012. Smith earned a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in California.

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Always Looking for Ways to Reinvent

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I remember it like it was yesterday. My business partner and I were in the process of closing a construction loan to continue developing a 19-acre retail center in Arizona. It was 2008 and the financial and real estate collapse of the Great Recession was upon us. Capital dried up immediately, deals fell through and panic ensued. What followed were years of struggle for most in real estate as the

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