Meet the Hurricane Properties Team

Patrick Burand

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Patrick graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He uses his analytical background to evaluate the upside and risk of potential real estate deals along with structuring the financing needed to grow the company portfolio. His constant appetite for knowledge and continuous improvement-mindset has helped Hurricane Properties become a better company each and every year.

Meet the Hurricane Properties Team

Zach Goodman

Founder and Chief Operations Officer

Zach has over 15-years of experience working in and growing his family’s Packaging Supply business. During his time at the company, Zach helped increase revenue by 500%. His natural relationship building skills combined with his ability to put together and manage highly productive teams has helped Hurricane Properties grow while still maintaining efficient operations.

Meet the Hurricane Properties Team

Matt Olszewski

Founder and Chief Acquisitions Officer

Prior to joining Hurricane Properties, Matt built a highly successful landscaping and property maintenance company. His ability to build strong business relationships and his entrepreneurial instincts have helped Hurricane Properties acquire excellent real estate assets that both cash flow and appreciate over time.

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Yoxy Orta

Director of Property Management

Yoxy joined Hurricane Properties in 2022 working part time as an assistant property manager. She was so successful in this role that less than a year later she had been promoted to a full-time employee in charge of property management for the entire company. Yoxy’s leadership, business instincts, along with her ability to launch and execute new initiatives has helped Hurricane Properties create one of the most well-run property management operations in the region.

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Aufry Orta

Assistant Property Manager

Aufry began working for Hurricane properties in 2023 in a part time role helping Yoxy with property management activities. Aufry provided such high value to the company that she was promoted to a full-time role in 2024. Her work ethic and attention to detail has helped Hurricane Properties excel in the management of our rental units

Meet the Hurricane Properties Team

Leo Nieves

Director of Rehab and Maintenance

Leo joined Hurricane Properties in 2018 as the company’s first employee. His ability to run multiple rehab projects simultaneously in a cost effective and expeditious manner has helped the company grow to the size it is today. Leo also handles all the maintenance for our apartments and his team’s rapid response time to maintenance requests has helped us earn regular praise from our tenants.

Our Vision

We are three highly ambitious and competitive individuals who want to build generational wealth for our families through real estate. Along the way we want to give our friends and families a chance to create wealth alongside us by investing in our company.

Our Commitment to Investors

We have a long-term perspective which drives our business decisions and possess a deep sense of responsibility to our investors. These core values guide us from taking on too much risk in our portfolio, even if that means slower business growth. We understand the trust our investors are placing in us and we do not take that lightly. This is evidenced by our track record of never missing an investor interest payment or principal return. We understand that the priority of the business is to our investors over all else.

Our Story

Hurricane Properties is not your average real estate company. Established in 2017 by three childhood friends from Amherst, MA – Patrick Burand, Zach Goodman and Matt Olszewski – our journey began with a wide eyed and nervous purchase of a 3-unit property. Next, we used the last of our personal savings to purchase a 6-unit property in Chicopee, MA. At this point we decided to look to friends and family to invest in our company to continue our growth.

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Our First Purchase –

17 Pleasant Street in Westfield MA (3-Units)

We started small, with a $10,000 investment from another childhood Amherst friend before bringing on additional larger investments. This strategy of combining investor money with the profits from the business supercharged our growth, allowing us to accumulate the 145 apartments and 4 Luxury vacation houses we own today.

Expansion to Florida –

716 Kittyhawk Way, North Palm Beach FL​

In 2021 we noticed the trend of people and wealth moving from the west coast and northeast to Florida and wanted to benefit from the real estate appreciation that followed this trend. We moved quickly and bought three luxury waterfront houses in Palm Beach County and began renting them to snowbirds and vacationers. As predicted these properties appreciated significantly in the following years while providing strong cash flow from their rental incomes. These properties in Florida combined with our apartments in Massachusetts give our portfolio a balance of high cash flow and appreciation that is both lucrative and stable.

Business Growth and Expansion

2021 was also the year that we began to hire full time employees to help operate our ever-expanding company. Our key hires were Leonardo Nieves as our Maintenance Supervisor and Yoxy Orta as our Property Manager. These hires allowed the owners to focus the majority of our energy on acquisitions and improving overall company operations.

Future Growth –
A Balanced and Stable Portfolio

Looking forward, we want to continue maintaining a balance of high cash flowing apartments and highly appreciating luxury properties in hot markets. We will continue expanding into new lucrative real estate markets and building out our team of Rockstar employees to ensure that we are operating at peak efficiency and protecting our investors’ capital to the best of our abilities.