I’ve never written up a profile of him, but one of these days, I’m going to get around to doing a full fledged admiration piece on the career of Tom Lewis who is best known for running the real estate investment trust Realty Income. Who knows, maybe I’ll try and see if I can track him down or leave a message with his secretary just to say, “Hey man, I don’t want anything from you. I don’t want to hassle you for any of your time. I just want to say I studied your career, and it was good.” I could see great businessmen in retirement appreciating something like that.
For those of you who have owned shares of Realty Income, you already know what it does: it pays out a dividend every month, and it went up every year Lewis was at the helm (and has something like a … Read the rest of this article!