Mike Consol

Seth Bernstein is asking questions, asking questions of me, and the clock is ticking. I only have 75 minutes to extrude enough information from this Manhattanite to render a profile that is a reasonable facsimile of the personal and professional dimensions of the man. Before I can get started, he wants to know who I am, where I’m from and where I went to school, succeeded by follow-up questions.

AJ Osborne has been investing in self-storage since 2004, and in that time he has developed a finely calibrated map of the American real estate landscape — one that looks nothing like the conventional wisdom that equates safety with size. As CEO of Cedar Creek Capital, Osborne oversees a portfolio spanning roughly 12 states, from Phoenix and Dallas-Fort Worth to Iowa, Oklahoma and the Pacific Northwest.

On the morning the Palisades burned, Michele Havens went to work and never returned home. She was weeks into one of the biggest professional transitions of her career — leaving a 24-year tenure at Northern Trust to lead BMO’s U.S. wealth management business — when the January fires swept through her Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Her children were pulled from school. The family checked into a downtown hotel.