Malcolm Butters graduated with a master’s from FIU’s College of Business in 1984. He started his career in real estate with a big advantage: no student loans to pay off. He chose the job he wanted and started saving for a car, a home, and later, an entrepreneurial venture, without the burden of debt on his shoulders.
After three decades of success, Butters, co-founder and owner of Butters Construction and Development, knows how fortunate he was. He wanted to help those Hollo School of Real Estate graduates who had to take out loans to finance their education. With student debt one of the biggest issues facing today’s graduates and the nation as a whole, Butters said, “I want to help these graduates pay down their loans so that they can have a clean start and become successful members of the real estate community.”
On June 26, Butters made his vision a reality. At the Hollo School of Real Estate’s Master of Science in International Real Estate (MSIRE) graduation dinner – before a packed crowd of more than 100 at the Oceanaire Seafood in Miami including 47 graduates, their guests and faculty members – two MSIRE graduates with outstanding academic performances and loans to pay off received the first Malcolm Butters Real Estate Awards of $12,500 each.
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