Our Story

David Ruebush, from Austin Texas USA and Nina Tretiakova from Kharkov Ukraine came to Batumi to spend some holiday time together and explore Georgia.

At that time David was working on an Internet project and needed to go to Australia for a few months of work, and of course they did a bit of sight seeing and exploration.

When they returned to Ukraine they found Russians were invading Crimea and killing thousands of Ukrainian citizens. David's software business was very disrupted and they needed to find a safer place to live.

So, they returned to Georgia where they felt they could safely live and work for a temporary time until things calmed down in Ukraine.

But things didn't calm down and it wasn't long before Mamma decided Georgia sounded nice and came to join them.

Not long after, Nina's brother Max and his wife arrived. And Max brought his friend, "big Max" from Ukraine and they started a small remodeling business, finishing black frame apartments for people.

And they kept finishing more and more black frame properties for people. Making tons of connections and establishing a reputation of doing high quality work.

And before too long the entire family was involved. We even started buying our own black frame properties and finishing them for resale and rent. 

We had so many people asking us to finish their apartments and manage the daily renting that we couldn't handle all the work with our tiny family team.

We decided to open a small office, add 2 new "family members", and call our business "Batumi Paradise". Our plan was to help a few people invest in up to 10 properties our first year.

But the clients kept coming from all over the world. India, USA, Holland, United Kingdom, Australia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and more. Very soon, we had helped people invest in over 70 properties!

We kept adding more and more members to our family. And next thing you know, we had a very professional, extremely skilled, highly educated, well connected team of real estate investing and management experts.

By our 1st birthday we had grown to over 30 employees and had 4 projects under development resulting in over $10.0 million USD in real estate investing activities.