Business View Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 1

35 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1 to be the kind of business that wants to be the difference-maker in an industry that, historically speaking, has not seen a great deal of innovation. “We started as a real estate brokerage in Denver and quickly learned that what we were doing within corporate housing was unique and very different,” Healy shares. “Traditional corporate housing will rent apartments and furniture, lending a corporation a kind of rental property. What we were doing was managing other people’s properties. So, we were able to provide homes, condos, and townhomes – spaces that felt a lot less transient in terms of the home environment.” Healy also found that the risk they were taking with the property as an asset was considerably lower than it would have been if they were simply leasing and subletting apartments. “Instead, we were entering into a partnership with the property owner,” she explains. “As AVENUEWEST Co-Owners, Angela & Tim Healy AvenueWest Team