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Get to know our brilliant WiscoREIA host

Chris Hake

Chris is the founder and visionary of the Madison Real Estate Investors Association (REIA), Master Investor Academy and Just Simple Storage Mastery Coaching Partnership Program. Chris has decades of real estate investing experience and has seen (and smelled) more distressed properties than he cares to admit.

Chris has been a Madisonian for over 49 years and investing in the Madison real estate market for over 30 years. Since doing his first house hack in 1994, he has been involved with 100's of house flips, 100’s of rentals, raised over 10 million dollars to fund those deals and had 1000's of students come through his local training and coaching programs. Chris has a master's degree in the school of hard knocks.

Between 2006-2010 Chris taught the Real Estate Investing course at Madison Area Technical College, which saw 100's of students come through his classes. In July 2012, Chris founded The Madison REIA and in July 2021 merged with Wisco REIA which now has 8 REIA locations across Wisconsin, bringing the combined membership to over 500!

Chris's company Just Simple Storage, LLC owns and manages nine facilities consisting of over 900 self-storage units in WI, IL and MI with over 225,000 rentable sq ft.

On a personal note, Chris and his wife, Suzanna, have three children, Tyler, Tanner and Trelan. He also has two dogs, Kona and Hemi. Chris loves classic muscle cars (Corvettes), all outdoor sports, especially golf, and fishing. As a husband, father, businessman, and real estate investor, Chris holds true to his core values and lives his Life and Business Vision plan.  His personal and business motto is, “People before profits.”



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