The founder and creator of Dumpster Dress, Paul Nichols, had already started a successful commercial real estate financing company, Paragon Prime Funding. Years later he went on to also start a multifamily property management company, Paragon Residential Management. Since their founding's, he has grown both of these companies to become one of the largest commercial real estate financing consultants and multifamily property management companies in the Capital Region of New York. But what does this have to do with dumpsters?