About Us

DTV Partners was born out of a realization that the world had changed, but home building hadn’t. The Great Recession had knocked the wind out of most builders, but they still kept building the same way they had for the last century, only bigger! Both of us struggled to find the right homes for our budgets and decided Atlanta deserved a better option.

Brad Raber

Founder & CEO

Brad Raber founded DTV Partners in the midst of a housing market that appeared to have left any semblance of affordability far behind. As a Market Analyst with the world’s largest commercial real estate data provider, the CoStar Group, Mr. Raber saw that housing construction had plummeted from historical averages following the Great Recession, with the huge drop in skilled labor the largest driver.

Brad Raber has worked for large commercial developers and small residential asset owners and everything in between. After his attaining MBA, Mr. Raber worked with Trammell Crow Residential, Caves Valley Partners on large institutional multifamily asset development in core markets.

Before jumping over to the owner/developer side, Mr. Raber was an engineer involved with large-scale commercial projects like the new International Terminal at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Mr. Raber also managed complex construction projects including high-end science lab space and cutting-edge data center work.

Brad Raber is proud graduate of both the Georgia Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Science from the College of Architecture, and the University of Virginia, where he earned his MBA and met co-founder Gen Izutsu.

Brad is happily married to his gorgeous wife Lauren, a real estate attorney. They live with their three dogs in Sandy Springs.’

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Gen Izutsu

Co-Founder & COO

Gen Izutsu is a Director of Innovation and Marketing at a Fortune 150 firm and a brilliant strategic thinker to boot. Gen has grown on the fast track, demonstrating real growth and team management at every step.

Mr. Izutsu is a transformative leader with a proven track record of building high-functioning teams that deliver growth by discerning insights, creating strategies and implementing solutions. He has mastered corporate business speak at the highest level.

After graduating from Penn, Gen purchased and turned around a failing restaurant through the recession, eventually selling it at a tidy profit at a very young age and with little experience in the notoriously difficult restaurant business.

Gen Izutsu graduated Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania. After selling his own business, Gen graduated from the University of Virginia, earning his MBA and graduating in the top 10% of his class.

Gen is recently engaged to an amazing woman and lives in Atlanta’s Edgewood neighborhood with a menagerie of house plants.

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Mission

DTV Partners’ mission is to serve the needs of homebuyers, renters and investors by providing high-quality housing in the most efficient way possible. We aim to be stewards of capital that builds trust among our investing partners that minimizes risk while providing an acceptable return. We aim to serve our end users by delivering on their unmet needs in housing, with a differentiated product at reasonable costs. We aim to be the preferred client for our construction partners, operating in all matters with integrity, good-faith and high execution.

Vision

DTV Partners’ will create the homes and communities that help cities thrive, while taking a long view to our own growth. We will continually invest in our own relationships to build a vehicle that can weather market gyrations, while providing a platform for our associates to build outstanding careers. We will continually re-invent ourselves to stay at the forefront of changes in the CRE industry in a way that best matches the needs of our end users and available inputs.

Values

DTV Partners’ was created to capitalize on changes in the construction industry that allow for underserved markets to be addressed. We are honored that home buyers would choose us to deliver one of their most important assets. We do not seek wealth for its own sake, but rather as a scorecard of the quality of the services provided, and the efficiency of which we were able to do so. A significant premium is placed on maintaining our fragile reputation at the highest level, working with all our partners in an honest, fair-dealing manner.

Contact Us

Are you a home buyer? Builder/Developer? Non-Profit? Governmental Professional? Investor? Interested in Tiny Homes? Interested in Co-Living? Interested in just a plain simple better way to build? At DTV Partners we are happy to inform, consult, dream or just talk shop. Let us know how we can create value for your dream today.