Cha Mi Kang

After purchasing and renovating her first “fixer-upper” near the Sorbonne (“location, location, location”), Chami found a tenant to lease her lovingly restored home, now rental property shortly before departing for a life in Montreal, Canada, with her French husband.

Unfortunately, shortly upon arriving in North America, Chami’s tenant decided to stop paying the rent—and the nascent real estate investor found herself holding a TransAtlantic bag of rental property woes. Faced with this far-flung problem—and a monthly mortgage payment still due (Mon Dieu!), Chami learned her first real estate investing lesson the good ol’ fashioned hard way.

Fortunately, there’s a happy ending to the beginning of Chami’s real estate investment career. Faced with the realities of a rock and a hard place, Chami’s fast thinking, and creative problem solving opened her imagination to the bigger possibilities—for herself, and others—who increasingly seek her humble, steadfast, yet highly inventive, approach to investing in properties.