Tom Burtness, real estate investment expert, will release the book “The New Masters of Real Estate” with Ron LeGrand and other leading real estate experts from around the country. 

Champaign, Ill. – March 10, 2010 – Tom Burtness, real estate investment expert and coach, has co-written a book with Ron LeGrand and other leading real estate experts across the country.  The new book, to be published by CelebrityPress™, is called “The New Masters of Real Estate: Getting Deals Done in the New Economy.”

Tom has founded over twenty successful businesses and organizations in the past thirty-five years in a wide diversity of fields, ranging from consulting engineering, construction, and real estate businesses, to a theatre production company and a church.   

Tom is passionate about helping people find and realize the vision for their lives, families and businesses. Dubbed a “mentor of mentors,” Tom served as director for North and Central America for a distance-learning institute that provides masters-level business leadership training.  In this role, Tom oversaw an international network of over two hundred mentors, and taught seminars, short courses and in-service training events in Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and throughout the Unites States.

Tom currently co-owns and runs four businesses, including a real-estate investment business with his son-in-law, Zach Morrison; a real estate investment capital funding business; an investment advisor firm; and a green energy residential improvements business.

J.W. Dicks, Esq., America’s Foremost Expert on Personal Branding for Business Development and Nick Nanton, Esq., The Celebrity Lawyer, launched CelebrityPress™ as a publishing company specializing in business and marketing publications. Nick Nanton and JW Dicks are also the co-founders of The Celebrity Branding Agency®, a Media, Marketing and PR agency.

To learn more about CelebrityPress®, please visit http://www.CelebrityPressPublishing.com 

 

About Tom Burtness: 

Tom Burtness has been an adventurer his entire life, relentlessly pursuing the optimum approach to conquering the challenging waves in his own life, family, and career. He is an entrepreneur to the core.  Tom has founded over twenty successful businesses and organizations in the past thirty-five years in a wide diversity of fields, ranging from consulting engineering, construction, and real estate businesses, to a theatre production company and a church.   

Tom is passionate about helping people find and realize the vision for their lives, families and businesses. Dubbed a “mentor of mentors,” Tom served as director for North and Central America for a distance-learning institute that provides masters-level business leadership training.  In this role, Tom oversaw an international network of over two hundred mentors, and taught seminars, short courses and in-service training events in Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and throughout the Unites States.

His teaching and writing style blends both the why and the how-to.  Tom possesses a rare ability to see both the philosophy behind a principle and the way to live it out; it has been said of Tom that he is a “bridge between the theoretical and the practical.”  Tom finds it curiously ironic that his engineering specialization of illumination design parallels his passion to assist his students in achieving practical “illumination” to excel in their fields of endeavor.

Tom and his wife of thirty-five years, Emily, carry their passion for mentoring into their family life as well.  They home educated their four children from grade school through graduation from high school.  The three older children have all graduated from college with honors.  Erick is a CFA, Kristiana is an editor and screenwriter, Michelle assists in the real-estate business, and Hannah is studying graphic design at the University of Illinois.

Tom extends his love for taking calculated risks into his leisure activities as well. He has enjoyed many years of the excitement involved in off-road motorcycling, scuba diving, downhill skiing, rock climbing and rappelling, and being a private pilot.  Tom is a long distance runner and completed three half-marathon events last year.  His personal motto is “Never stop adventuring!”

Tom currently co-owns and runs four businesses, including a real-estate investment business with his son-in-law, Zach Morrison; a real estate investment capital funding business; an investment advisor firm; and a green energy residential improvements business.  Tom can be reached at [email protected].  He and Emily reside near Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and are avid fans of the University of Illinois.  Go Illini!

 

 

About Celebrity Press™: 

Celebrity Press™ was founded by two attorneys, JW Dicks, Esq. and Nick Nation, Esq. who are also best selling authors and represent authors and experts nationwide. Both of the attorneys are members of multiple organizations, associations and academies that recognize and honor the best in the business, and they thought a similar organization should be created for Best Selling authors who don’t always get recognition for their accomplishment. Authors themselves, they recognized that only a very limited number of books made the major New York Times Best Seller list and just like the awards shows put on by the entertainment-based organizations, they wanted to have more categories for authors to be accepted and recognized for their accomplishment. 

To learn more about CelebrityPress®, please visit http://www.CelebrityPressPublishing.com