Gabe Francis

Gabe is a co-founder of Lenox Realty Group. Back in 1997, Gabe read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad and the real estate bug bit him hard. Originally from Boston, Gabe started buying multi-family properties in Providence in the late ’90s while working at AT&T as a web hosting specialist. In 2001, when the dot com boom turned to bust, he decided to give real estate sales a try as a full-time job and moved to Providence.

For the first few years of his real estate career, he sold multi-family houses and commercial properties to investors but as the market started to rise rapidly in 2005 he wondered how people were going to pay for these properties as they no longer made financial sense. In 2005, Gabe started to predict that this housing boom would soon turn into a bust and sold all his real estate holdings including his own personal house, and started focusing on doing rentals because he did not want to sell people houses that he thought they would someday lose.

In 2006, Gabe and his wife Nicola designed the website Rentprov.com and opened their first company on Westminster St. in Providence. At the time there were no other companies in Providence focusing on rentals and the business boomed. In 2008, one of their customers approached them about buying the rental business. They divided Rentprov.com into two separate companies. Rentprov Realty which they sold and still is extremely successful under the leadership of Jon Weinstein on Atwells Ave in Providence, and Rentprov.com which is a standalone website business.

Both Gabe and his wife tried to make a living solely off the website and found it challenging and in 2009 opened Lenox Property Management. They later opened Lenox Realty Group because they wanted to be a full-service real estate company. At Lenox, Gabe is responsible for the strategic direction of the company as well as the day-to-day management of the office. Our mission is to ensure top-quality service to all our customers whether it be an owner with a $500 apartment or someone selling a multimillion-dollar home.

What clients receive from Gabe is an honest insider’s view of the market. He takes this business seriously, and literally eats, breathes, and sleeps real estate. On off days, Gabe enjoys spending time with his friends and family which includes his sons and his lovely wife.