{"id":35901,"date":"2021-08-09T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=35901"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:31:43","slug":"fiu-hollo-school-graduation-dinner-celebrates-mentorship-community-and-a-donors-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2021\/08\/fiu-hollo-school-graduation-dinner-celebrates-mentorship-community-and-a-donors-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU Hollo School graduation dinner celebrates mentorship, community \u2013 and a donor\u2019s generosity."},"content":{"rendered":"

Real estate executive Adam Tiktin started his first business with the help of his grandparents, who lent him $10,000. When he later moved to Miami to get into real estate after 9\/11, it was Tiktin\u2019s grandfather who cheered him on through tough times.<\/p>\n

Today, as president and broker at Titkin Real Estate Services and a member of the\u00a0Hollo School of Real Estate Advisory Board<\/a>\u00a0at FIU Business, Tiktin actively strives to create new networks and reach out to help students. His recent $50,000 gift established the Harold and Freyda Tiktin Real Estate Excellence Award, honoring the grandparents who nurtured his success.<\/p>\n

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Presentation of the Harold and Freyda Tiktin Real Estate Scholarship Award at the 2021 MSIRE graduation dinner (l. to r.): Eli Beracha, director, Hollo School of Real Estate; Adam Tiktin, donor; Thais Guevara, scholarship winner; and William Hardin, founding director, Hollo School and dean, FIU Business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI tell people: if you\u2019re getting down, I want you to think about my grandfather, like he\u2019s on your shoulder, cheering you on,\u201d Tiktin told MS in International Real Estate<\/a> graduates, their families, and faculty members assembled on June 27, 2021 at Smith & Wollensky in Miami Beach for the first in-person celebration since 2019. The award recognizes one student and up to four faculty members in the Hollo School for their hard work, outstanding contributions, and commitment to the field of real estate.<\/p>\n

Eli Beracha, director of the\u00a0Hollo School<\/a>, noted the challenges presented by the pandemic were overcome by the program\u2019s seamless switches to online learning and then back to partial face-to-face.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an unusual time, but the things the Hollo School has been able to do have been amazing,\u201d said Beracha. Credentials earned in the past year include a No. 1 ranking in the world for faculty research from the\u00a0Journal of Real Estate Literature,<\/em>\u00a0tying FIU with the prestigious National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n

Beracha stressed the importance of networking. \u201cIn five or 10 years, not only will you have friends from this class, but you\u2019ll be in business together and you\u2019ll be extremely successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Hardin, who started the program 14 years ago with 12 students and now serves as interim dean, also testified to the power of building and maintaining a network.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you meet people who tell you they\u2019re successful on their own, keep on walking. We\u2019re all better by being there for other people,\u201d he said, noting that his own network extended back to people he shared classes with 40 years ago. \u201cWe become successful by helping other people become successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiktin, who noted the award came from proceeds of a deal he did with fellow Hollo board member and donor Malcolm Butters (MSIRE \u201983), also extolled the value of building a strong network. He encouraged the grads to seek opportunities in what is now a strong real estate market.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about confidence,\u201d he told the graduates. \u201cSomeday, you will all do well, and you\u2019ll take some of the money you make in real estate and give it back to make this a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Titkin presented a $5,000 scholarship award to graduate Thais Guevara, who came to the U.S. alone from Venezuela 20 years ago and met many challenges on her road to success. Hardin and Beracha won awards for Best Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real estate executive Adam Tiktin started his first business with the help of his grandparents, who lent him $10,000. When he later moved to Miami to get into real estate after 9\/11, it was Tiktin\u2019s grandfather who cheered him on through tough times. Today, as president and broker at Titkin Real Estate Services and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":35903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3564,4735,2836,4737],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35909,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35901\/revisions\/35909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}