About Us

A foreclosure expert, author, and spokesperson for the American Homeowner's Association, Carla Douglin understands the financial burden many homeowners face when buying, maintaining or selling a home.

Carla Douglin is now the Director of The Douglin Foundation, which leads foreclosure information seminars for homeowners throughout the nation.

In 2005, Douglin started her own foreclosure consulting business in order to assist homeowners on the verge of losing their property. As she consulted each client, she noticed a pattern of miseducation everyone was confused about the foreclosure process. Alongside the confusion, most people facing foreclosure undergo a tremendous amount of emotional distress, which further complicated the process.

Using her background as a corporate trainer, Douglin created a helpful questionnaire to assist homeowners facing foreclosure understand more about their own financial situation. The questionnaire evolved into a foreclosure manual, which in turn, became a workbook.

Carla Douglin offers timely assistance dealing with a topic that is a major crisis in our country today. She is a skilled foreclosure prevention expert offering an unprecedented approach to helping homeowners in distress with a step-by-step approach to foreclosure avoidance, protection and survival.

Leon Felder is a full-time real estate investor who launched R20 Homes, LLC in the Washington DC metropolitan area in 2003. He is known as the Transaction Technician because of his skill and intimate knowledge of real estate transactions. In 2004, Leon developed a new housing program to share his passion for real estate with others. R20's Rent-to-Own program provides direction and encouragement to help individuals and families plan for their first home purchase. The program prepares candidates for homeownership, working with their income, credit, and available government resources while identifying a property that they can rent for a period of time prior to purchase. Candidates in the R2O program are also educated on real estate investment and techniques to assure financial freedom. Since the launch of the Rent-to-Own program, Leon has helped more than sixty families achieve their dream of homeownership.

Prior to launching R2O Homes, Leon worked in telecommunications, where he excelled in technical development and management. From 1987 through 2003, Leon succeeded in planning, building, and managing cable systems throughout the East Coast for companies such as Comcast, Cox Cable, Jones Communication, SBC, TCI Cable, and Multivision. His knowledge of ingress mitigation, return path, and high profile customer resolution made him a highly sought after asset for large cable companies.

We are glad that Leon's career has taken a different course as he brings extensive knowledge to The Douglin Group of real estate transactions and the challenges facing homeowners.

Joseph Dickerson's extensive experience covers commercial business banking, community project development, and small business finance and strategy. His community involvement spans seven non profit organizations where he has directed organizational growth at all levels. Some of Joseph's recent accomplishments for the Coalition for Economic Empowerment, the Urban Village Corporation, and the Brookland Community Development Corporation include preserving affordable housing, organizing fundraising, managing corporate sponsorships, development and oversight of corporate and institutional sponsorships, community outreach and growth strategies.

Joseph is also an accomplished speaker with over twenty presentations in the last three years on small business finance, strategy, productivity, effectiveness and social entrepreneurship.

Steven E. LaBroi is an over 25 year veteran in sales with success in various industries such as healthcare, telecommunications, and manufacturing. The last half of his career has been dedicated to the development of startup companies and franchises. He founded the DC/Baltimore Chapter of the National Sales Network and grew its chapter base to over 150 members annually, hosting sales meetings, socials, and seminars for over 10 years as President. Through this organization he has built relationships nationwide as the national Director of Marketing. He has also developed Sales4us.com, a career site for sales professionals. Steven holds a degree in Finance from Morehouse College.

Sylvia Headen Douglin has 20 years training and facilitation experience with both Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. She has developed, implemented and managed technical and soft-skill training programs, curricula, and corresponding course materials for the US Secret Service, the US Postal Service, JP Morgan Chase, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Council of Churches, MeriStar Hotels and Resorts, Hilton Hotels, Interstate Hotels & Resorts, Hersha Hospitality, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency. She has performed platform and classroom training for thousands of participants across the nation, and has created training programs that have ensured compliance with state, federal, and Union standards. Sylvia also has widespread experience in systematically assembling training teams, developing mentoring programs and compliance training programs for both staff and management.

One of Sylvia's corporate accomplishments is the development of the Interstate Hotels & Resorts New Associate Orientation Video/DVD. Sylvia designed, developed and co-wrote the script created to inform new hotel employees about the relationship between IHR and their individual property. The DVD is used by all current properties, is included in a package delivered to all new properties in the portfolio and is used by the Development Team to describe IHR to hotel owners. It is also used to provide a company overview for IHR's Sales and Catering School and Revenue Manager School.

Donnell Jones has more than 20 years expertise as a manager and analyst in the field of mortgage and lending at Fannie Mae. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the financial, technological, and operational elements of the mortgage industry.

While at Fannie Mae, Donnell developed and managed hundreds of internal technical projects and processes, many of which have been in effect for the last 18 years, and earned the Vice Chairman's Award. He was selected by the Divisional Director to develop and implement two cutting-edge, corporate-wide initiatives: Fannie Mae's Disaster Recovery Plan and eChannel, Fannie Mae's eBusiness platform of applications and mortgage products. In addition to technical projects, his experience includes working as a liaison between organization and clients, identifying trends and business requirements, and ensuring that all standards and codes are migrated to production. Donnell brings to The Douglin Group a highly developed ability to build effective alliances, comprehend both conceptual and tangible ideas and convert those ideas and alliances into appropriate business solutions.

As an experienced management consultant, Beverly Moss brings expertise in human resources, organizational change, diversity, marketing and communications to The Douglin Group. Beverly's career spans 30 years with companies including AT&T, C&P and New England Telephone Companies, Fannie Mae, Information Pathwaves, and Vision Consulting. She has held Senior Management positions and successfully led large and diverse teams, implemented company-wide initiatives and programs, institutionalized supplier diversity initiatives, achieved sales quotas and managed cross-organizational budgets.

Beverly leverages her skills, knowledge and abilities to create and lead process improvement efforts, business strategies, communications infrastructures, and has initiated, implemented and delivered training programs on a variety of management practices for commercial, non-profit and government clients with diverse and conflicting cultures. She has developed, managed and participated in large-scale program initiations and implementations, organizational assessments, strategic planning engagements, supplier diversity programs, global diversity consultation, curriculum designs and deliveries, and leadership coaching engagements. Additionally, she has planned and conducted numerous focus groups, team-based workshops and conference sessions and provided synthesis and analysis of the resulting data to assist businesses in making substantive organizational changes.