About Us

Bryan M. Chavis
President & Founder

Bryan M. Chavis started the Landlord Academy™ to empower Florida housing providers, such as landlords, investors, real estate agents, public housing authorities, and many more. This is accomplished through various tools such as educational courses and workshops, free landlord/investor roundtable discussions, information-based website, and system oriented products.

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Laney Lyons
Educational Program Director

Our Educational Program Department provides quality workshops for landlords and investors that immediately help them in their daily business. As the director of our educational program department and a national trainer, Laney is responsible for coordinating all of our speaking engagements, which includes our certification programs, monthly workshops, FREE Landlord Roundtables, and guest speaking for other organizations.

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Dave Tower
Instructor, Certified Professional Landlord™

William Cortese
Home Repair/Maintenance Techinician

Williams Cortese has over a decade experience in home repair and maintenance. He is a certified A/C technician and a Certified Professional Landlord. William is also an instructor for the Academy's maintenance oriented training courses.

Andrea Holtman
Certified Apartment Manager, National Apartment Leasing Professional

Andrea uses her experience as a National Apartment Leasing Professional to help landlords learn how to attract applicants to their rental property. 
Her expertise and accomplishments led to her receiving the award for Leasing Professional of the Year.

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Kern Charles
Certified Professional Landlord

Kern works with communities, housing authorities, landlords, and various organizations to share how Landlord Academy™™ can empower landlords and better their communities.

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Jose Rosa
Director of Bilingual Communications

Jose and his department help English-speaking landlords who rent to Spanish speaking tenants in their desire to protect their rental property. What is unique about our team is that we are the only company in Florida providing landlords with tools to deal with Spanish speaking tenants.

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