Roberta Hoskie

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Roberta Hoskie
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Alma mater Quinnipiac University
Website www.connectwithroberta.com

Roberta Hoskie is an American real estate broker, writer, and media personality based in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the author of the book Poverty Curse Broken, president and CEO of Outreach Realty Servicing, Outreach School of Real Estate, and the 1000 Black Families National Homeownership Program. She is also the founder and Chieftain of the International Millionaire Mindset Sisterhood.

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Early life and education

Hoskie was born and raised in New Haven. When she was 8 years old her parents divorced. She and her three siblings stayed with her mother. Her family had financial problems. When she was 17, she got pregnant, living on welfare. [1]

After obtaining her associate degree in office administration at Gateway Community and Technical College. She worked at Yale University after obtaining an internship in the Department of Pediatrics. In 2002, she left Yale University and accepted a position in Bronx, New York as a departmental administrator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She later studied business management at Quinnipiac University. [2]

Career

Hoskie took an internship at Yale University when she was 20 and several months later bought a home through Yale’s home buying program. She bought a four-family home and rented out some space in it. Four years later, the house’s price quadrupled and she sold the house. She bought a new house in 2004 and opened Outreach Property Management. [3]

In 2006, she founded Outreach Foundation a non-profit organization to help in providing affordable housing for low and moderate income families. Through Outreach Foundation, she coordinates the H.O.P.E. Community Festival & Housing Summit. [4]

In August 2011, Hoskie established Outreach Realty Servicing a full service real estate brokerage and also established Outreach Realty School, a real estate school. [5] [6] In 2015, she launched Ms. Millionaire Mindset Academy and Training Seminars. [7]

Hoskie sits on the Minority Business Initiative for the State of Connecticut, Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and Gateway Community College Foundation Board; previously appointed to the Re-Open CT Business Advisory committee, the Board of Directors of Goodwill Easter Seals, Community Action Agency and held the position as the Chairwomen of Economic Development for the New Haven branch of the NAACP board the New Haven branch of the NAACP board. [8] She is a co-host of WYBC’s, 94.3FM talk show, titled Electric Drum Round Table. [9] [10] In 2015, she launched a reality TV show called CT Money Makers. The program revolves around the process of real estate investment. [11]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Hoskie married Christopher Watts in 2015. They divorced in 2021. Hoskie currently lives with her three children in New Haven. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ The Stan Simpson Show – Creating Wealth Via Real Estate Investing
  2. ↑ Real Estate Queenpin, Roberta Hoskie on Maintaining a Wealthy Mindstate
  3. ↑ New Haven mother uses real estate to become millionaire
  4. ↑ Ethnic Online commends Roberta and Bobby for paving a legacy that will last for generations to come!
  5. ↑ Single, teen mom turned realty broker spawns lucrative business
  6. ↑ The New College Try
  7. 1 2 3 Roberta Hoskie is Register’s 2015 ‘Person of the Year’
  8. ↑ Sisters’ Lives Matter, Too
  9. 1 2 3 New Haven real estate pro owes success to her son
  10. ↑ What’s Hot Today On WNHH Radio
  11. ↑ New Haven real estate pro to launch reality TV show, call for open casting
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