Pongee Barnes

Pongee was raised on the south-side of Chicago, and is a political-science graduate of Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. She embarked on a real estate career as a college student in 2005 and at the age of 20, bought her first condo in Chicago IL. After buying 2 condominiums during the most recent tumultuous real estate market collapse, she was able to endure and later purchase properties flips and rentals.