team
Ben Lakey, VP Aquisition and Development
Ben began his real estate career flipping homes in 2002. He was deployed with the Utah National Guard in 2006, and after returning home Ben returned to real estate with a few small development projects until the market crashed in 2007. Throughout the recession he worked on distressed asset projects, while also attending Brigham Young University (BYU) Law School from 2010-2012. In 2013, Ben opened his own law firm specializing in real estate law and continued to flip houses, develop land into commercial and residential properties, structure real estate investments, and manage self-storage facilities.
Ben’s primary areas of focus at Build Vacations are investor relations, financing strategy, negotiations, complex deal structuring, and legal affairs. Ben continues to manage his own real estate investments. As an attorney, Ben handles real estate development and investments.
Bret Tingey, VP Asset Management and Underwriting
Bret graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) Law School in 2013 and is a practicing attorney that specializes in patent law. He has moved around the country to find the right balance of heat, green landscapes, and beaches and has ended up in North Carolina. Since living in North Carolina, Bret has added several beach properties to his portfolio as a way to help his family to spend more time together at the beach and to gain naturally expanding real estate investments. Bret has managed market research, budgeting, construction of new builds, and city council and planning boards for subdivision approval.
Bret’s primary areas of focus at Build Vacations are deal finding and preliminary underwriting, engineering management, builder management, and contractor management.
Paul Heapy
Investor Relations
Originally from New Zealand, Paul came to the United States for college athletics. He earned a Business Management degree with an emphasis in marketing from BYU’s Marriott School of Business. Paul’s diverse and entrepreneurial professional career includes co-founding a telehealth platform in the orthodontic space, commercial building energy efficiency consulting, B2B sales leadership, professional coaching, and founding a multi-national humanitarian initiative.
Paul’s primary focus at Build Vacations is investor relations and communications.