Commited to Building Thriving Communities

Chad Durham

In his role as national Vice President, Chad Durham is responsible for leading the build-to-rent business across the company and will continue to lead the growth of our business’s footprint into additional markets. During his tenure in homebuilding, he’s held several positions, including Senior Builder, Purchasing Consultant, Community Manager, Project Manager, and Division President. As Division President, he oversaw the land acquisition and land development for numerous communities with a variety of product types, ranging from high-density townhomes to high-end custom homes. In 2020, he led the launch of Integrity Community Builders, which has now grown across several markets with multiple fully stabilized and performing communities and numerous more under development and in the pipeline.

Durham is passionate about empowering his Team Members and does his best to ensure that they have the knowledge, support, and proper tools to be successful and grow with the company. Raised in Austin, he attended Texas Christian University on a baseball scholarship where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Communications. Prior to entering the homebuilding industry, he was the 25th draft pick for the Houston Astros in 2001 and played for the organization from 2001-03. Durham is also active with his church and donates his time and resources to assist the ministries and outreach program.

Briana Booker

As the coordinator for the Integrity Community Builders team, Briana Booker leverages over a decade of administrative experience to streamline operations and foster strong partnerships. As a key liaison for the team, she ensures seamless communication between internal and external team members and partners, manages complex calendars and drives impactful marketing initiatives.

Prior to joining Integrity Community Builders, Booker worked in an administrative role for David Weekley Homes for five years, processing homeowner closings, coordinating the production of meeting presentations, and utilizing different technologies for data analysis and interpretation. Additionally, she honed her administrative skills in the fast-paced behavioral health industry, where she successfully launched a multifaceted treatment facility.

She graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in Technical Writing and Communication.

Nat Heston

With more than 15 years of home building and real estate experience, Nat Heston brings a wealth of experience to his current role as Business Development Director. He is responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and marketing potential build-to-rent projects to investor partners to create a financially successful development that is in the best interest of both parties.

Heston joined David Weekley Homes in 2018 as a Land Acquisition Manager for the Houston Division, where he was primarily focused on the company’s high-density product line. While in that role, he had the opportunity to assemble numerous build-to-rent projects in Houston and procure investor partners, which led to his current position.

Prior to joining Integrity Community Builders, he worked across multiple areas within the real estate industry, including residential development, corporate real estate, single-family sales, urban and suburban land acquisitions, condominium developments, and build-to-rent developments. Heston has acquired over $100 million in raw land and over 3,000 finished lots throughout his career.

He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Real Estate and Operations Management from Baylor University and a master’s in Business Administration from St. Thomas University.

Vimal Patel

Since joining the Integrity Community Builders team in 2023, Vimal Patel has been essential in helping grow the build-to-rent platform, given his extensive network and experience in the rental space. Vimal is responsible for connecting the company’s local divisions to a national platform of investors/operators, maintaining an active mandate of delivering tangible build-to-rent projects across the country. Specifically, Vimal sources, underwrites, and markets build-to-rent projects, and he provides investors the ability to hire the company for horizontal/vertical development on their land.

His career over the last 15 years has included positions in capital markets, real estate corporate development, and real estate private equity. In those roles, he has worked at investment banks, an international owner/operator of mixed-use real estate assets, and with private equity investors focused on both industrial and single-family assets. In his most recent position, he closed $650 million of build-to-rent and single-family rental assets from a network of builders and investors.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, where he focused his studies on real estate and finance.

Nikki Yu

Nikki Yu delivers comprehensive data-driven financial analysis to support investment partners as an Analyst with Integrity Community Builders. With a background in analytics and category management, Yu develops Excel models, comp sets, and returns forecasts to evaluate new opportunities, and prepares clear proposal packages while monitoring current market trends and conditions. She supports transactions from start to finish, including underwriting, research, diligence, and documentation.

Before joining Integrity Community Builders, she worked at a privately held REIT where she underwrote more than $5 billion in multifamily acquisitions, developed investment models, prepared IC memos, and supported closings, including joint-venture transactions. She also led ESG performance tracking and board-level reporting initiatives. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior real estate analyst at a large property management company, where she produced proformas and market analyses that informed ownership decisions.

Yu holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Houston and is bilingual in English and Mandarin.

Brett Loren

As associate analyst for Integrity Community Builders, Brett Loren provides essential financial support to the company’s growing build-to-rent platform. He is responsible for sourcing and analyzing key market data, developing detailed Excel underwriting models, and creating comp sets that allow the team to evaluate potential opportunities. Brett also prepares investment proposal packages and forecasts project returns to ensure investor partners have a clear and informed understanding of each potential development. Additionally, he communicates recent market trends and conditions to help guide strategic decisions across the platform.

Prior to joining the Integrity Community Builders team, he worked as an acquisition analyst for a vertically integrated real estate investment development and operational company with an emphasis on new construction and full community developments. He was responsible for over $20 billion of underwriting and cash flow projection for single-family properties and over $5 million of lot underwriting for a newly launched modular homes vertical.

Additionally, he spent time as a financial analyst for a leading national home loan lender and servicer. He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.