A man without imagination: how the son of teachers earned $ 1.7 billion from renting houses

David Lichtenstein's empire is estimated at $6.5 billion - it is residential, office, retail real estate and hotels. And he began by renting out a small house, for which he made a down payment,

The founder of Lightstone Group, whose personal fortune is estimated at $1.7 billion, is sure that it doesn’t take much intelligence to succeed in real estate. Something else is important. “You have to be willing to take risks and fail,” he says. His business career really broke in half - the company almost slammed the mortgage crisis. And yet Liechtenstein found the strength to rise again.