Kent Leach is a fund manager,real estate developer, business owner, and the founder of Hickory Creek Capital Partners. Hickory Creek is a boutique private investment firm known for its asset-agnostic approach and diverse offerings. Kent has over 25 years of real estate experience, ranging from single family fix and flips, passive multifamily, and the active development of affordable housing. Kent currently shares his experience by leading an elite group of investors who are committed and aligned in the use of his SMART Asset framework to screen dozens of alternative asset offerings, cherry picking the best ones, and negotiating exclusive returns and bonus yields that the average investor can’t generate except through the “buying power” of a larger entity.
KENT'S MISSION
Kent Leach is on a mission to make accessing alternative investments as easy as it is to access mutual funds. Using Hickory Creek's Innovative SMART Fund concept, he guides investors with his SMART Asset framework, which in part, harnesses the collective strength of a united investor group for superior yields. Beyond profit-driven pursuits, Kent is deeply committed to the development of affordable housing, ensuring that all can access quality living spaces. Kent comes from a family of teachers and is passionate about teaching and mentoring. His goal is not just to offer investment opportunities but to build a community of enlightened, empowered investors.
Kent Leach is a fund manager, real estate developer, business owner, and the founder of Hickory Creek Capital Partners. Hickory Creek is a boutique private investment firm known for its asset-agnostic approach and diverse offerings. Kent has over 25 years of real estate experience, ranging from single family fix and flips, passive multifamily, and the active development of affordable housing. Kent currently shares his experience by leading an elite group of investors who are committed and aligned in the use of his SMART Asset framework to screen dozens of alternative asset offerings, cherry picking the best ones, and negotiating exclusive returns and bonus yields that the average investor can’t generate except through the “buying power” of a larger entity.
KENT'S MISSION
Kent Leach is on a mission to make accessing alternative investments as easy as it is to access mutual funds. Using Hickory Creek's Innovative SMART Fund concept, he guides investors with his SMART Asset framework, which in part, harnesses the collective strength of a united investor group for superior yields. Beyond profit-driven pursuits, Kent is deeply committed to the development of affordable housing, ensuring that all can access quality living spaces. Kent comes from a family of teachers and is passionate about teaching and mentoring. His goal is not just to offer investment opportunities but to build a community of enlightened, empowered investors.
FROM PHYSICAL THERAPY TO
REAL ESTATE
A Journey of Helping Others through Investment Innovation
Kent Leach is the founder of Hickory Creek Capital Partners, LLC. He oversees the company’s acquisitions and business-development activities. As fund manager, Kent directs the overall investment strategy and has a passion for creating value through education and sharing his knowledge. He brings to the company 25 years of investor relationships, real estate experience, and business development.
Prior to Hickory Creek Capital Partners, Kent founded K & K Investment Properties, LLC in 2003. Through self-education and various mentorships, Kent was able to build a portfolio of rental properties while transacting over 100 deals through numerous techniques and partnerships. Kent became proficient in short sale negotiations and flips, fix and flip, and rent to own strategies.
It was during this time that he also developed a passion for using various self-directed IRAs and CESAs to grow his investments tax free. Kent became an avid practitioner of the Infinite Banking Concept which he uses to grow wealth and invest alongside his investors. He enjoys teaching others how to escape government controlled qualified plans and create their own bank and “Alternative 401k”.
Kent graduated with honors in 1997 from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy. He worked as a physical therapist in an internal medicine practice and home health agencies where he built valuable lifelong relationships that continue to invest with him today. Kent lives on a 12-acre farm in East Tennessee with his wife Karen and their 3 children. He enjoys time on his tractor, managing his cattle and helping his children develop a true work ethic. He squeezes in an occasional round of golf with friends and investors and can be found every Friday leading men’s discipleship Bible study at his church.
FROM PHYSICAL THERAPY TO
REAL ESTATE
A Journey of Helping Others through Investment Innovation
Kent Leach is the founder of Hickory Creek Capital Partners, LLC. He oversees the company’s acquisitions and business-development activities. As fund manager, Kent directs the overall investment strategy and has a passion for creating value through education and sharing his knowledge. He brings to the company 25 years of investor relationships, real estate experience, and business development.
Prior to Hickory Creek Capital Partners, Kent founded K & K Investment Properties, LLC in 2003. Through self-education and various mentorships, Kent was able to build a portfolio of rental properties while transacting over 100 deals through numerous techniques and partnerships. Kent became proficient in short sale negotiations and flips, fix and flip, and rent to own strategies.
It was during this time that he also developed a passion for using various self-directed IRAs and CESAs to grow his investments tax free. Kent became an avid practitioner of the Infinite Banking Concept which he uses to grow wealth and invest alongside his investors. He enjoys teaching others how to escape government controlled qualified plans and create their own bank and “Alternative 401k”.
Kent graduated with honors in 1997 from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy. He worked as a physical therapist in an internal medicine practice and home health agencies where he built valuable lifelong relationships that continue to invest with him today.
Kent lives on a 12-acre farm in East Tennessee with his wife Karen and their 3 children. He enjoys time on his tractor, managing his cattle and helping his children develop a true work ethic. He squeezes in an occasional round of golf with friends and investors and can be found every Friday leading men’s discipleship Bible study at his church.
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