Rick Callahan is presently the Owner of R R Callahan Co, which develops, owns and manages rental property in Chicago, Florida and Wisconsin. In the past, he wandered around Europe, Africa and the Middle East before settling in Greece for several years. He worked as a high school teacher, plumber, photographer, clown, filmmaker and journalist before realizing that real estate afforded the opportunity to be paid while sleeping, traveling or reading.

Non profit activities involved funding high school robotics and chess clubs, teaching basic economics to 5th graders, and serving on boards of charter schools and mental health associations. He has a BA in English from the University of Illinois. Most importantly, he has been extraordinarily happily married to his wife, Bic Wirtz, for 32 years. They have three grown boys, Tim, Kit and Peter.