Our Team
At TrueWay Homes, we know buying a home is more than a transaction—it’s a deeply personal decision. Our team is here to listen first, guide with care, and make the process feel clear and comfortable from start to finish.
Led by experienced professionals Ryan Tower and John Lee, we bring steady guidance, honest answers, and a genuine commitment to helping you find a home that truly fits your life and your future
Ryan W. Tower
Founder & CEO
Ryan W. Tower is a seasoned real estate entrepreneur, investor, and operator with nearly three decades of experience spanning management, residential and commercial real estate, acquisitions, and strategic business growth.
Born in Flint, Michigan, Ryan is a graduate of the Michigan State University Business School, where he earned a degree in General Business Administration with double minors in Finance and English. He began his professional career in 1995 while attending MSU, rising quickly through management ranks with a national restaurant franchise.
By 2001, Ryan was serving as a District Manager, where he led operational turnarounds and restored multiple locations to strong profitability—laying the foundation for his disciplined, performance-driven leadership style.
Ryan transitioned into real estate in the mid-2000s and became a full-time investor in 2009. He built and scaled his own investment company with a focus on residential REOs and luxury short sales, completing more than 70 successful residential acquisitions and dispositions. He later expanded into commercial real estate, where he was recruited by Pinnacle Commercial Group as a Project Manager and quickly advanced into senior leadership.
During his tenure, Ryan evaluated and underwrote 500+ commercial acquisition opportunities and held key roles across acquisitions, dispositions, investor relations, marketing, broker relations, R&D, and technology development. In 2010, he was appointed Director of Corporate Dispositions, overseeing firm-wide sales and marketing strategy. He later founded Genesis Commercial Investments, where he successfully negotiated and acquired 25+ commercial assets.
Ryan is also the founder of Tower Home Buyers, where he leads a solutions-based acquisitions team focused on helping homeowners navigate complex situations where traditional real estate sales are not viable. His firm specializes in creative transactions involving distressed properties, inherited homes, upside-down mortgages, landlord transitions, and time-sensitive sales.
Ryan’s most recent and mission-driven venture is TrueWay Homes, based in Fort Myers, Florida. TrueWay Homes is focused on delivering high-quality, affordable land-and-home packages on larger residential lots—bridging the growing gap between rising construction costs and attainable homeownership. By combining efficient land acquisition, manufactured and modular housing solutions, and streamlined development processes, TrueWay Homes provides a practical path to ownership for working families who are priced out of traditional stick-built homes.
Through TrueWay Homes, Ryan is committed to expanding access to safe, attractive, financeable housing—while restoring the promise of homeownership as a realistic and sustainable goal for everyday Americans.
John Lee
Co-Founder and COO
John Lee is a real estate professional, investor, and founder with a lifelong foundation in both commercial and residential real estate. Raised in a family deeply rooted in the industry, John learned early that successful real estate is built on fundamentals—understanding the numbers, managing risk, and executing deals with integrity.
John’s experience spans nearly every layer of the real estate ecosystem. Early in his career, he helped manage a family investment portfolio that included seven shopping centers, franchise outparcels, over 250,000 square feet of industrial space, new construction apartment developments, and more than 100 residential rental properties at its peak. This hands-on exposure shaped his practical understanding of underwriting, asset management, leasing, and deal execution across asset classes.
After relocating to St. Petersburg in 2013 to build his career independently, John immersed himself in the local market—seeking out top producers, learning directly from high-performing agents, and earning responsibility through performance. He managed sales for a 56-unit townhome development and later became a partner in Peach State Properties, a commercial real estate group that has acquired warehouse, retail, and shopping center assets. His career progressed into senior leadership roles within nationally recognized brokerages, ultimately serving as Vice President for Florida’s West Coast in a commercial real estate division.
In 2024, John relocated to Fort Myers, Florida to be closer to family and to raise his children alongside their cousins. He and his family are currently building their home while continuing to expand their real estate footprint across Florida.
Today, John operates and founders multiple real estate companies. He runs an investment firm focused on apartment acquisitions and is actively exploring the use of 3D printing technology in multifamily development. He also founded a company dedicated to developing affordable manufactured homes in rural markets, providing attainable housing options for families who want land, space, and long-term stability.
John is also the founder of The Closing Class, a practical real estate education platform designed for agents and investors who want clarity, structure, and real-world execution. The program distills decades of hands-on experience into a disciplined framework for evaluating deals, managing risk, and confidently guiding transactions from opportunity to closing. In addition, John launched a real estate title company with plans to expand into multiple offices beginning in 2026.
Jennifer Laming
Project Management and Compliance
Jennifer Laming, known to friends as Jenny or Jen, is passionate about helping people in difficult housing situations. Born and raised in Michigan, but she has lived in Arizona and South Carolina for some time as well. She is very well versed in all things real estate and is always there to help others either sell their properties or find properties to purchase regardless of the situation they find themselves in, she can find a way to help.
Jen holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice with an emphasis in Law from Kaplan University, where she focused on real estate law and organizational psychology. She continued her education with graduate classes at Walden University, specializing inorganizational psychology and how it pertains to business and real estate law.
Jen has worked in all aspects of real estate, where she mastered leasing practices and evictions early in her career. She then moved into Acquisitions of multifamily properties that she flipped and fully leased back up to help the communities gain value. She has 25+ years of experience including section 8/HUD, working with MSHDA to make multifamily properties compliant. She has also worked with building new multimillion-dollar properties through lease up. More recently she has been focused on acquiring private homes and multifamily properties to be able to lease to people who have credit issues and need some time to get their credit approved for a mortgage.
She has a program that the renters can join to improve their credit and help them with a lease to own option in the meantime until they qualify to purchase the home themselves. Jen also specializes in creative financing to help those who need to sell their homes quickly or without an inspection. Jen will find the right buyer for your home regardless of its condition or situation.
Beyond the real estate realm, Jen loves reading and spending time with her husband and 3 boys. Her family comes first always, and she works hard to help other families be able to have the same experience in their homes with their families. Jen always says with family and support anyone can accomplish anything!
Jen is currently working with TrueWay Home to acquire land, order and spec homes and to ensure timely completion and full compliance for TrueWay Homes. She manages projects from land acquisition to buyer closing. She is the team leader for keeping TrueWay Homes as efficient and effective as possible.
Outside of her professional pursuits, Jen enjoys bowling, shopping, and relaxing at home. She loves learning and so she listens to podcasts so that she can stay current on the new options for all her clients and future clients!
At TrueWay Homes, our mission is to make homeownership feel possible again. We are committed to building thoughtful, affordable homes on meaningful pieces of land, and to guiding every buyer with honesty, clarity, and respect.
In a market that often feels rushed and overwhelming, we choose patience, transparency, and long-term value—because helping families find a place they can truly call home is not just what we do, it’s why we exist.
Office: 8000 Cypress Dr N, Ft Myers, FL 33967
Call: (239) 309-7446
Email: [email protected]
Site: www.TrueWayHomes.us