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St. Anthony High School on Lawrence Road. Years went by and Chander had an excellent education and loved sports and played Football, Hockey, Cricket, Swimming and many more. After the Partition of India, the Family lost their home in Lahore and moved to Delhi.

Chander Lall, followed his older brother, Tilak to California, United States in 1949. Chander studied first at the University of California in Berkeley and then graduated from University of Colorado in Boulder, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. After working in the State of Kansas engineering buildings, grain elevators, highways and bridges for the Kansas Turnpike, Chander was hired by Boeing to work on the Boeing Model 707 commercial jet airplane. What a dream this was for Chander, to work on the most successful family of commercial jet airplanes ever built, and live in the State of Washington, a paradise of mountains, lakes, rivers, and Pacific Ocean. Always interested in improving himself, Chander continued his education, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering followed by a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle.

With the downturn of the Seattle economy in the mid-seventies, Chander found himself looking for a new job. He turned adversity into opportunity by finding work on the Alyeska Pipeline Project, which was being built over 800 miles of Alaska wilderness from Prudoe Bay to Valdez. This was a turning point for him as the high monetary compensation he received for his hard work provided him with the capital to finance future real estate and other business ventures.

Chander eventually returned to Seattle and Boeing, and for the next 25 years, he taught himself about real estate by buying and selling many properties in various parts of metropolitan Seattle. Most were multi-family dwellings such as apartment buildings. Chander made a lot of money, and lost some as well – it was all a process of learning and education in real life. But throughout

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