About me

Background

I'm the Managing Partner of Resolute RDM, the real estate firm I've run in Indianapolis since 2008. We develop, manage, and broker commercial and residential property, and I spend most of my time helping owners make better decisions with their real estate. I hold the CCIM and CPM designations and a broker's license in Indiana. Along the way I advised at KW Commercial in the early years and ran R & D Contractors from 2016 to 2023, delivering more than $20M in construction and development for investors. Today I'm also the General Partner of Aero Landing Development, where we're building 242 build-to-rent duplexes in Lebanon, Missouri. I've walked a lot more job sites than boardrooms, and I think that's an advantage. I live just north of Indianapolis with my wife Lanell and our 2 dogs, Mr Pudge and Tessie Girl. Our kids, Danika and Kadin, are young adults now, so the advice is free and the questions keep getting harder.

The through-line

Before real estate, I spent years in full-time youth and college ministry. I loved the work and I loved the people. I eventually left because of my experience with the institution of religion, and that decision reshaped everything that came after. But the work itself never changed. Teaching a kid, fixing a player's swing, answering a colleague's question at 4pm on a Tuesday: it's all the same job. I'm in the people development business. Real estate is just where I practice it now. I coached baseball at Cascade High School for 5 years, mostly fundamentals. My favorite part was watching players earn scholarships through their own work. They did the lifting. I just got to be nearby when it paid off. These days that same work includes serving as Board Treasurer of 91 Place, a nonprofit fighting youth homelessness here in Indiana.

Baseball and the Red Sox

I was a catcher. I loved how hard it was: the beatings, the responsibility of calling a game, the split-second decisions your teammates depend on. I had chances to play in college and chose ministry instead. Walking away from the game felt like regret for years. Coaching gave it back to me. The Red Sox thing started with rooting against the Yankees in the Mariners years (Griffey, Pudge Rodriguez, the '95 run) and turned into a love of the franchise and its history. My first game at Fenway was 2010, when Lanell surprised me with field box seats behind the dugout. We've been season ticket holders since 2013, and I was at Games 1 and 2 of the 2013 World Series. Now we take friends and family to Fenway every year. Go for a Yankees game if you can. The tension in that park feels different, and most Yankees fans I've met give and get real respect. It doesn't change how we feel about each other. Both dogs are named from the fandom: Mr Pudge for Carlton Fisk, Tessie for the anthem.

What I'm reading

Right now: Rocket Fuel, The 50th Law, Meditations, and The Daily Stoic. The all-time shelf: The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, My Bondage and My Freedom, Traction, Man's Search for Meaning, Yes to Life, Discourses, Letters from a Stoic, and Lives of the Stoics. You can probably spot the pattern. The Stoics have been dead for 2,000 years and still give better advice than most of the internet.

How I try to operate

Stay fully present, skip the judgment of the circumstance, and execute the part I can control as well as I can. Sometimes that means action. Sometimes it means a difficult conversation, or silence, or shutting up and doing the hard work. I lift on Judd Lienhard's program, built for athletes who stopped competing but didn't stop caring. It fixed back pain I'd earned by overbuilding the vanity muscles, and it does as much for my head as my back. When I'm not lifting, I'm hiking, ideally a winter trail in the Rockies with a waterfall on it.

CadwellBot

I trained an AI version of myself on my work and thinking. Ask it about commercial real estate investing, property management, or the Indianapolis market, any time, and it answers the way I would.