“#1 Leading Ladies”

With over 20 plus years in the multi-family industry, Dawn’s experience is well-rounded and multi-faceted, built upon her passion for marketing, training, asset management, business development and operation of all asset types. Dawn joined the real estate business at 18, starting as a receptionist for Ferland Corporation in Rhode Island. Shortly after, she was promoted to Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Conventional Operations, broadening her experience in appraisals and acquisitions. Her family’s military duties moved her to Florida where she managed and operated the property management division for a large family-owned firm.

Ms. Waye later joined a development and asset management firm focused on tax credit and multi-use, high-rise new construction. Dawn was hired as an Investment Manager at Pinnacle Properties to oversee the renovation and lease-up of a mixed-use, historical tax credit development in downtown Dallas. After joining Knightvest Management as the Vice President of Operations, she was afforded the opportunity to purchase the third-party business and founded City Gate Property Group. Dawn holds brokers licenses in Texas, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island, as wells as a national CPM Designation. As a leader in her industry, she provides our clients, vendors, and residents a voice at the local, state and national level through legislative advocacy. Dawn has sat on panels representing the industry and her entrepreneurial spirit is embraced by all her colleagues.

After 14 years in the fire service, ultimately leaving as chief, she now leverages her risk analysis from her experience and from her Master's degree from the University of Chicago in Risk Management into her investing career. A fulltime real estate investor for almost 3 years now with a portfolio of 41 doors, she is partnering into new companies with other investors who specialize in their own niches. Due to her exposure to almost every form of real estate investing she helps drive trends and pivots with her team as change occurs. Her speaking engagements and guest appearances on some of the top real estate investing podcasts drive her messages to an eager audience. Her ability to asses and mediate risk and implement innovative ways to maximize each property’s net operating income make her a natural purveyor of the wealth of others and driver of real estate investing norms and practices. She is currently performing consulting work for new property tech startups and co-writing a book providing real estate investors with mentalist advantages with mentalist Mind Hacker, James Springer.

Brittany Melville, Director of Marketing and Sales

Brittany applies her extensive experience in direct sales, marketing and customer relationship management at Next Generation. In her role, she develops and oversees the implementation of our marketing strategy across all media and works with our team to support sales initiatives.

Brittany’s accomplishments throughout the years include designing and executing lead generation strategies across multiple channels, developing and nurturing multi-million dollar sales pipelines, enhancing digital marketing outreach, creating educational content, conducting market and competitive analyses, training sales personnel and improving internal processes to support sales. Prior to joining Next Generation Brittany held positions at Convergent Revenue Cycle Management, Inc., and Altria Group Distribution Company (formerly Philip Morris USA).

Brittany graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in marketing and business management from Boston College, and is certified as a Self-Directed IRA Professional (SDIP). Brittany and her husband currently live in Branchburg, NJ, with their cat Leo. She also owns a rental property at the Jersey Shore. In her free time she enjoys dancing, working out, playing piano, cooking, reading and cheering on her favorite football team, the Philadelphia Eagles.

Kristin Gerst is the Managing Director at Capricorn Mortgage Investments. Capricorn Mortgage Investments buys high interest rate mortgages from small business owners and companies and sells them to large institutional buyers.

Kristin Gerst was born in Paris, France and raised in Chicago, IL. Kristin is a graduate with a BA and MA degree from the University of North Texas. Kristin has been a Texan since 1996 and has been a full-time real estate investor for 15 years. Kristin got started with an 8-unit apartment building and by mid-2008, she had acquired over 60 doors that were all rented Section-8 and that she managed herself. Since Jan 2005, Kristin has successfully renovated 100’s of properties. After the market crashed in 2008, Kristin learned how to owner finance properties and started converting her properties to mortgage notes as her tenants vacated. She also became skilled in acquiring properties by the “Subject-to” method and creating “wrap around mortgages” with each property she acquired. In 2014, Kristin accepted the Director of Marketing position for Bay Mountain Capital, a hard money lender in Dallas, TX, and got proficient at not only borrowing hard money, but also lending it.

Kristin has originated 100s of owner finance notes for her own portfolio as well as other investors. After discovering a need in the market to buy owner finance mortgages from investors, Kristin created Capricorn Mortgage Investments in early 2015. Since 2017, Capricorn Mortgage Investments has bought and sold over $26 million dollars in private owner finance mortgages.

In 2017, Kristin entered the short-term vacation rental space in Dallas, TX. She has four active and very successful AirBnBs in Uptown Dallas and has started managing short-term rentals for other investors. Kristin Gerst is one of the Divas on the show “Real Estate Divas” on PropelioTV and continues to public speak and teach on various real estate topics monthly.

Ellie Paget, known affectionately by friends as The hospitality creativist is a designer, chef and artist who applies out of the box principles to the art of living, work, business and home. She utilizes the daily landscape as a canvas and holds high standards of hospitality to transform the attitude of real estate and strives to foster delight. She loves orchestrating a vibe of excellence in all aspects of interaction for her clients and guests. Her beliefs are that transparency, efficiency and continuity will raise the standards naturally as the foundation and pillars of her company.



Ellie started HomeSlice, a vacation rental management, investment and consultation company, in February 2019, and through organic growth, within 6 months has scaled to over 50+ units in four major metropolitan cities. She grew as Director of Operations for a former company, a portfolio from 12-125 in one year in 15 different major markets, and managed roles overseeing several departments. Ambitious and confident in the trajectory for HomeSlice, she is already developing new concepts with family offices, multifamily developers, and investors seeking to diversify their portfolio by adding hometels into their portfolios. She is an effective communicator, has a keen operator perspective, a gifted leader, and a skilled negotiator.


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Amanda Williams has been involved with real estate since 2008. She has been a private money lender for Fix-N-Flip Deals, Flipped homes herself, bought and sold homes on lease options, subject- to, and owner financing. Amanda and her partner Alex, have a nice size Airbnb portfolio in Raleigh, NC. She has been a licensed realtor in North Carolina since 2013, opened her own brokerage in 2016, then affiliated with eXp Realty (the Amazon of Real Estate) in 2017 which allows her to work with agents all over the world. Amanda's team of 30+ realtors serves both buyers and sellers in the Raleigh area focusing mainly on relocation and investment properties. She currently enjoys traveling and helping other real estate agents create multiple streams of passive income.