Terry M. Considine (born 1947) is the founder of Aimco, the chairman and chief executive officer of Apartment Income REIT, and a former Republican politician.
[1] Considine was born in San Diego as the 4th of 11 children and was raised on a cattle ranch in Southern California.
[4] He initially received a student deferment from the Vietnam War and was later disqualified for service because of a bad back.
[3] In 1975, he founded The Considine Companies, a property-management firm that specialized in troubled real estate.
[3] In 1981, he acquired the El Cortez Hotel for $6 million in partnership with Bass Brothers Realty Corporation.
[3] Considine was defeated in the 1992 senate election by Democratic Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell who switched parties and became Republican in 1995.
[20] Considine and his wife Betsy Callaway Considine provide charitable support, primarily to education and faith-based causes, including Compositive Primary, a workplace primary school on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado.