Real Trends: Going Pro
Relocation and Real Estate Professionals who’ve made the choice to drill down their business to the narrow niche of working exclusively with pro athletes. Original Real Trends Article (Pages 30-35 click here)
LA Times: Moving pros help pro athletes tackle those unexpected moves
Players are traded, dropped and picked back up again with the same swift, unsentimental nature of moving pawns in a chess match. On top of the pressures of joining a new squad, players are tasked with moving their entire lives — their families, their belongings, their fleets of cars — across the country in a…
More Brains Than Budget? Steal These $0 Marketing Strategies.
How to Succeed with a Marketing Budget of $0 It sounds too good to be true, and yet many companies pull it off. How? By thinking differently about who does the marketing. Jason Feifer and Brittant Shoot TEN YEARS AGO, Chris Dingman launched his company on the flimsiest of grounds. It’s called The Dingman Group, and it…
How the Rams and their families will pack up and move to Los Angeles
Chris Dingman, president of the Dingman Group, a Newport Beach company that relocates 1,000 athletes and coaches each year, said that between the Rams’ move from St. Louis and team expansions, the real estate niche is experiencing an “unprecedented time.” “It is very, very rare that a professional sports team leaves their market,” Dingman said….
Mobility Magazine: Beyond Corporate Transferees
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM RELOCATING ATHLETES? Such exacting requirements and small margins for error can help keep RMCs that work with athletes at the top of their game. It forces providers to reconsider what is possible, taking an unvarnished look at unnecessary bureaucracy and pointless procedures that might have taken root over the years…
The Man Who Moves All-Star Athletes
You already know that pro athletes aren’t like us in lots of ways. But just like regular folks, they need a place to live during the season, and when they get traded or sign with a new team, they face the same headaches we do when we move to a different city: how do I…
Moving man Chris Dingman is the secret winner of the trade deadline
The NBA world turned upside down at last Thursday’s trade deadline, with most of the league making moves. When something like that happens, each player involved is dealing with some amount of upheavel — it’s not like executing trades in NBA 2K15. Imagine if you were suddenly told you had 48 hours to move halfway…
Trade deadline leaves dozens of players uprooting lives for new teams
WASHINGTON, DC – It’s been weeks since Iman Shumpert found himself headed to the Cavaliers from his longtime home in New York and there’s a few things he still hasn’t figured out. Among the most important for anyone who followed how much it meant to him in New York? His hair. “As far as me…
Moving Man Scores as 9% of NBA Is Swapped on Trade Deadline Day
(Bloomberg) — Nine percent of the National Basketball Association’s 450 players are on the move, which means Chris Dingman is a very busy man. “It’s an opportunity,” Dingman, whose business specializes in professional athlete relocation, said in a telephone interview. A record-setting NBA trade deadline two days ago resulted in 12 transactions involving 17 teams…
Professional Athletes Ditch Glitz for Hometowns
Professional athletes are renowned for buying multimillion-dollar mansions in cosmopolitan playgrounds like Miami and Vegas. Less visible are the scores of players who settle down near their childhood homes.
Padres pitcher Tyson Ross sells Oakland home for above asking price
San Diego Padres pitcher Tyson Ross and his brother, Padres farmhand Joe Ross, have sold their home in Oakland for $56,000 more than their $905,000 asking price. (Redfin | Inset: Getty Images)
Where Sports Stars Live in LA
BY KATHY A. MCDONALD LA’s sports stars are the city’s latest real estate superheroes. Besides a pool with expansive views, this $4.2 million Sunset Plaza aerie owned by ex-SF Giant Barry Zito offers an exact replica of a MLB pitcher’s mound on its spacious grounds. Health-obsessed LA is like a magnet for professional athletes—even those…