Haslett, Mich. native Rachel Michaud sees plenty of opportunity in Capital region real estate, having made the decision to stay the area as vice president of East Lansing-based Gillespie Group.
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Michaud is vice president of the Gillespie Group in East Lansing and one of only a handful of female executives to have reached such a milestone in the mid-Michigan area.
A graduate of Haslett High School and Western Michigan University, Michaud says her real education began in 1994 when she was hired right out of college as a leasing residential specialist. She soon realized that showing apartments was important to the process but there was so much more to learn, which became all too evident when the vice president of the company paid a visit to her rental property.
“I didn’t understand the dynamics of what it took. They used all these acronyms I didn’t understand,” she remembers. “I started asking questions and I never stopped. I’m constantly asking ‘How did we get here?’ and ‘How can we make it better?’”
Although Michaud can lay claim to many successful developments, there are some that stand out in her mind. One of the largest is a multi-unit family and commercial retail center in Jackson, which includes a grocery store and a strip mall.
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