Many have been with the company for more than a decade, he said. “We have 50 employees now,” Rob Taylor said. He’s now the company’s chief operating officer. Rob Taylor joined the company about 15 years ago, when David Taylor realized he needed help with managing his growing operation. Taylor spoke to with his brother Rob in Gaslight’s headquarters on Howell Avenue. Auburn.ĭavid Taylor, left, Gaslight Property’s chief executive, and his brother Rob, Gaslight’s chief operating officer, have stayed committed to Clifton, the neighborhood where they grew up. Uptown includes the neighborhoods of Avondale, Clifton, Corryville, CUF and Mt. The company in May received a birthday present from Cincinnati’s Uptown Consortium, when it won the Award of Excellence for Uptown Large Business at the consortium’s Fifth Annual Business Awards. It’s a key player in the viability of the Ludlow Avenue business district. Gaslight also owns a portfolio of retail space, again mostly in Clifton. Most also are clustered around Clifton, the neighborhood Taylor has called home for 50 years. Now marking its 25th year in business, the company owns more than 1,600 rental units, many in renovated historic houses like David Taylor’s first one in Northside. Taylor hasn’t moved far, but he’s come a long way: He’s now chief executive of Gaslight Property, one of the city’s major rental-property companies. The second house, also in Northside, cost $8,000 to buy, but it still made money.įast forward a quarter century. It wasn’t long before he realized the rent he was collecting earned him more money than the mortgage and credit-card bills cost, and so he tried it again. “I rented it to my buddies from school,” he said. CINCINNATI - David Taylor was still a student at the University of Cincinnati in 1991 when he maxed out all his credit cards to buy and renovate a house in Northside.
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