Douglas M. Clayton

Senior Vice President of Real Estate for Southwind Properties, President of ACC Investments, Inc. and President of Real Estate 1031 Exchange, LLC, which completes about two hundred 1031 exchanges per year. He was a principle in the formation of American Investment Exchange, LLC, which has dealt strictly in TIC acquisitions. He has now formed Greystone Real Estate Group, LLC to handle TIC real estate deals. He graduated from N.C. State University with a degree in Civil Engineering. Mr. Clayton started with a Consulting Engineering Firm in development design and construction management preparing construction inspections in 1977. He became the head of Construction Lending in 1980 and in 1984 entered the commercial real estate industry with Southwind Properties. In 1993 he was chosen to head up their real estate department. Has been involved in the leasing, management and sale of over $200 million dollars worth of real estate in the past twenty years.

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Strategic Partners

Don R. House - In House Legal Counsel, Law Offices of House & Tippett, PLLC
Born in Monroe, North Carolina on April 12, 1941. He was admitted to the Carolina Bar in 1966. Mr. House is the founder and senior member of the firm with responsibilities in real estate, corporate and business law. Mr. House is a graduate of Duke University (A.B. 1963) and he received his legal education at Duke University (LL.B. 1966). He is a member of Phi Delta Phi. Mr. House is also a member of the Forysth County Bar, North Carolina Bar, American Bar Association and North Carolina State Bar.

Edward D. Barnhill, Jr. - Outside Counsel, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Edward D. Barnhill, Jr. is a partner who pracitices in Columbia in the areas of real estate development, finance, estate and probate work, and commercial transactions that involve environmental concerns, construction defects and closely held corporations. Additionally, Mr. Barnhill has many years of experience in representing general contractors, subcontractors, and landowners in negotiating and litigating construction contracts and land survey issues. A member of the South Carolina Bar, Mr. Barnhill is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. He lectures at continuing legal education presentations on boundary disputes and survey matters, access and roadway rights, water boundaries, and commercial leasehold disputes. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Richland County Bar Association, and the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorney's Association.
Mr. Barnhill earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1973 and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business Administration from Furman University in 1970.