
R.M. "Bud" Allen
Founder & President
Bud Allen has spent more than 35 years in real estate development, building, owning and managing shopping centers, office parks, distribution centers and build-to-rent communities. With over $100 million in properties owned and managed, he has built a vertically integrated development, construction and management company that competes as a low-cost, high-value innovator.
In 2018 he developed and built the first detached single-family build-to-rent community in the United States — an industry that has since exploded. Today he and his team have built over 2,000 homes.
Bud is an avid pilot who has flown everything from gliders to jets, and he flies transplant teams to donor locations in the company jet. He is also a mountain climber, having summited Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson in Antarctica, Aconcagua and Elbrus, with three expeditions to Everest. He has logged more than 50,000 lifetime running miles and once rode 1,000 kilometers in six days across southern Africa to raise funds for child relief.
Faith and family come first. He has led more than 25 working witness teams building clinics, schools and churches throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and is a frequent public speaker. Above all he is proud of his family: his wife Terri, two daughters and their husbands, and four grandchildren.
