Building Dreams one Block at a Time.
About Us
Are You Ready to Invest in Detroit?
If you are ready to help in transforming Detroit neighborhoods by investing in properties Detroit Dream Investment Solutions is for you. We deal with new and seasoned investors to help them find the right property to add to their portfolio.
Allow us to help you in finding the right property today!
PROPERTY
Building Legacy Wealth
DDIS is transforming blighted properties into Turnkey performing assets. The projected 25-30% market growth over the next 10 years bring long-term benefits for DDIS Asset Leverage and Disposition Strategy. This strategy balances asset holdings to maintain consistent cash flow with sales to the secondary market to maximize profitable gains.
PEOPLE
Touching the Lives of People
Through our non-profit CHAMP Community Foundation, we help increase household income by training underemployed people of the community in skilled trades to fulfill the demand of new jobs and social enterprising opportunities. Over the next 10 years, we want to close the 50% gap in Average Median Income (AMI) between city of Detroit and the rest of Wayne County.
PLACE
Changing Communities for the Better
Buying properties by the block secures our market share. Detroit is a block-by-block city where one block is productive, thriving, and at the top of the market, but the adjacent blocks are sporadic with blight and abandoned properties and vacant lots. DDIS considers the entire community where we purchase properties. We work with the city to integrate with the bigger plan for the region.
We need to save our communities with our talent, skills, experiences, and our money to bring it back to its original color.
- Deba Harper
What's important is that when progress is made, we don't get left behind. We don't get taken advantage of. Because I've seen gentrification happen to so many people, I just want to make sure that I do my part.
- Angela Yee
Our goal is to not only buy blocks and make profit, but to educate, create jobs and generational wealth.
- Zabrina Horton
We are giving the youth and the folks that have been here in these neighborhoods all this time a chance to see something new and different. An not just see it, but be a part of it.
- Antoine M. Hayes
Our Team
Managing Partners
Deba Harper Co-Founder, Developer
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Deba Harper’s interest in real estate development was birthed from the economic downturn of The Great Recession 2007-2010. Out of great chaos comes greater ingenuity for visionaries like Deba.
The rebirth of Detroit, Michigan is a welcoming blank canvas for Deba to emerge as a real estate developer and implement the community development model that was conceived from her strategic community-based planning and advocacy in Los Angeles.
Deba is the Senior Data Solutions Administrator for the Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA), which is the biggest land bank in the nation. DLBA is the repository of all residential Detroit City owned parcels and manages all activity associated with the inventory, disposition and demolition.
Deba holds an Associate of Science degree in Business Administration from Antelope Valley College, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies with emphasis in Urban Planning from California State University Northridge and a professional certificate from the USC Ross Minority Program in Real Estate.
In 2016, Deba, with her 8-year old daughter their dog and everything their Prius would carry, decided to move to Detroit. She has trailblazed a pathway for investors to benefit from early entry into investing.
Zabrina Horton Co-Founder Investment Relations
Zabrina Horton is a TV-publicist-turned-real-estate-investor-goddess. She focuses on credit repair and a strategy she calls the “2-for-1 investment.” Zabrina helps individuals strengthen their credit profile so they can qualify to invest in multi-family units that serve two purposes; primary residence and income property. Not letting her 25+ years of Hollywood PR experience go to waste, she now applies those award-winning skills to investor relations activities. Her favorite mission is connecting passive and/or newbie investors with seasoned developers and flippers that provide high returns.
Zabrina earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing from Cal State Long Beach, and a Master of Science degree in Sports Management from St. Thomas University, Miami. She resides in Los Angeles with her fiance’ and their 4-year-old son. She invests in California as well as Detroit, where co-founded Detroit DREAM Investment Solutions with another REI goddess, Deba Harper.