Than Merrill
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| Position | Safety | ||||||||
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| Born | December 12, 1977 Fresno, California, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Fresno (CA) | ||||||||
| College | Yale | ||||||||
| NFL draft | 2001: 7th round, 223rd overall pick | ||||||||
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Nathaniel Merrill (born December 12, 1977) is an American businessman, television personality, and former professional football player. He is the co-owner of the real estate company CT Homes and the real estate investing educational company FortuneBuilders Inc. He was featured in the A&E's Flip This House in seasons 3, 4, and 5, airing in 2007 to 2009, as part of the "New Haven" team.
Football career
[edit | edit source]In high school Merrill was selected as an All-Far West Quarterback.[1] In college, he started as a strong safety at Yale University, where he was named to Yale’s First-team All-Ivy Selections[2] from 1999-2001. After graduating from Yale[3] he was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL draft,[4][5] but ultimately signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bears for the 2001 season. He spent one season with the Bears, and registered 7 tackles. He was later allocated by the Bears to the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe.[6] In 2003, Merrill was signed by the Buccaneers and was allocated again to NFLE, this time to the Amsterdam Admirals.[7] In 2003, Merrill suffered a career-ending knee injury. In 2004 he played one game at quarterback and safety for the Carinthian Cowboys of the Austrian Football League. [8]
Real estate career
[edit | edit source]Merrill co-founded CT Homes, LLC in 2004. The residential real estate investment company purchases, redevelops, and sells residential, multi-family, and commercial property.[9]
Merrill and CT Homes caught the attention of the producers of Flip This House, a popular reality TV show featured on A&E, during their nationwide search for a real estate investing business. The show documented and educated prospective entrepreneurs on the intricacies of buying and selling real estate.[10] Merrill’s “New Haven” team was featured on the last three seasons, from 2007 to 2009.
Merrill helped open Realty National Inc., a San Diego Real Estate Brokerage affiliated with CT Homes, in 2011.[11] Realty National Inc. was established in Pacific Beach, San Diego and has continued to open other offices throughout California and the United States including; Orange County, Sacramento and Boston, MA.[citation needed] Merrill wrote The Real Estate Wholesaling Bible: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Get Started in Real Estate, which was published on April 21, 2014.[12]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Than Merrill's FortuneBuilders Inc bio
- Biography for Than Merrill at IMDb
- Than Merrill on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Players of American football from Fresno, California
- American football safeties
- Stanford Cardinal football players
- Yale Bulldogs football players
- Chicago Bears players
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
- Barcelona Dragons (NFL Europe) players
- Amsterdam Admirals players
- Television personalities from California
- 21st-century American businesspeople