Invest With Lime
neighborhoods
Ohio calls home.
A modular-first real estate developer scaling affordable, semi-custom, care, and rental communities across Northeast Ohio.
|Opportunityneeds
tens of thousands of
new homes.
A structural housing shortage, aging stock, and stalled starter-home construction have created a decade-long undersupply — while land, labor, and financing continue to squeeze traditional builders.
Lime Companies is built to meet that gap — with a modular construction platform designed for speed, cost, and scale.
|Investment Team
Entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years identifying opportunities, building high-performing companies, and generating positive outcomes for investors — across real estate, healthcare, technology, financial technology, banking, aviation, marketing, and construction.
His edge is assembling and leading exceptional teams: experienced operators with deep industry knowledge, empowered to execute clear, disciplined growth strategies that strengthen operations, scale businesses, and position investments for successful exits.
Most recently, Brandon served as Chairman of the Board of LimeBank, leading its acquisition and transition into a fintech-focused financial institution. Deposits and deposit accounts grew dramatically while the bank held its place among the safest one percent of U.S. banks — delivering a successful exit for its investors.
He invests with a long-term perspective, responsible stewardship, and a clear focus on creating value — pursuing opportunities where experienced leadership, operational discipline, and strategic capital turn promising businesses into scalable, valuable enterprises.
Real estate operator focused on acquisitions, property management, renovations, and operational growth across Northeast Ohio. After more than a decade leading in education, Derek moved into real estate full time, bringing a discipline for leadership, accountability, and systems that produce measurable results.
In an acquisitions role with a regional residential investment firm, he helps oversee the evaluation and acquisition of homes across the Akron–Canton market — more than 130 homes in the first seven months of 2026, on pace for 200+ for the year.
Leading property management operations, he rebuilt screening standards, standardized procedures, and tightened leasing accountability — reducing an eviction rate that had exceeded 40% to below 5% with repeatable systems that protect residents and owners.
As Co-Founder of Lime Real Estate Companies LLC, Derek leads acquisition strategy, site selection, municipal relationships, development planning, and operational execution as Lime scales high-quality, attainable housing throughout Northeast Ohio.
|What We Build · InnovationWe own the land.
Every home is built to Lime Companies specifications — custom plans designed exclusively for Lime and produced by multiple established modular manufacturers, then set on lots we control. Site work runs in parallel with factory production, so homes land in days — not months — with weather risk removed. Asset-light on manufacturing, land-heavy where value accrues: better homes, faster, at materially lower cost.
A vetted network of modular manufacturers competes for our volume while our crews prep land, foundations, and utilities in parallel — no factory overhead, no weather delays, and two homes set in a single day.
|Why ModularLower cost. Higher profit.
Partners assemble homes on jigs with dedicated trade stations and continuous QC — waste and rework become the exception, and Lime buys a finished, inspected product.
Foundations and utilities are prepped while modules are produced. Set day to move-in in 8–12 weeks vs. 6–9 months for site-built product.
Ohio winters halt framing for months. Partner factories run in January the same as July — no seasonal labor force.
Volume across multiple manufacturers competes supply and locks pricing. Shorter carry lets capital recycle 2–3× per year for a higher IRR.
Ranges illustrative of Lime's modular platform vs. NE Ohio site-build comps.
|MarketA ~3.5M-person metro corridor with entrenched housing demand, supportive municipal partners, and land basis a fraction of coastal metros.
Decades of under-building have left every income band starved of new stock — from workforce housing to move-up product.
Land, permitting, and labor basis are 40–60% below comparable modular markets in the Sun Belt or Northeast.
Local and state programs actively subsidize affordable, care, and infill development.
No dominant modular platform exists in the region — Lime has a genuine first-mover position.
|Business ModelWe keep a share of the homes we build as long-term rentals. They pay monthly rent now, gain value over time, and grow the equity Lime holds. Many are leased through specialty structures tied to continuation-of-care models, earning above-market rents.
We sell groups of finished, leased homes to investors in one deal. Buyers pay more for a ready-to-go group than for single homes.
Suburban buyers choose from Lime's own semi-custom plans. These homes sell at higher prices and bring the largest profit per home.
|Fully Operational|FinancialsInvestors participate through secured promissory notes issued by Lime Real Estate Companies LLC — a contractual, fixed-rate return backed by real assets and modular production, not equity speculation.
- Purchased modular cost basis of 15–25% below stick-built creates margin that comfortably services fixed interest.
- Build cycles 50–70% faster recycle capital ~2.5× per year, so each dollar earns multiple times.
- Multiple manufacturer relationships keep supply competitive and production running year-round — no seasonal cash-flow gaps, no single-factory dependency.
- Note capital replaces per-property asset-based construction loans — no new origination fees, appraisals, draw inspections or lender delays on every lot. Those savings and that speed fund investor interest instead of a bank's.
- Notes sit ahead of sponsor equity — Lime's own capital absorbs first-loss risk.
|The Asksecured by the way Northeast
Ohio gets built.
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General business purposes, including lot acquisition, site development, modular home purchases, materials, labor, permitting, and other development and operating costs.
Promissory notes from Lime Real Estate Companies LLC — 12% fixed annual interest, paid monthly, principal at maturity.
Contractual fixed income ahead of sponsor equity, backed by a land-owning, modular-first operator with multi-vertical cash flow.
Option 2