I grew up in a small, rural beach town. After failing to get hired as a busboy, I joined a janitorial crew and eventually took over the contract to clean a large medical complex. From cleaning toilets to far more challenging situations, I was never afraid and never felt I was too good to do whatever job was necessary.
At the age of 18, I made my first real estate investment through a land assemblage, which set the stage for what followed. After my freshman year of college, I became a realtor and began marketing the property. Shortly thereafter, I sold it to a development firm on contract for 3.5x the purchase price, representing over a 20x return on investment.
After the sale, I turned my attention to other real estate investments while graduating college summa cum laude with a business degree. Following graduation, I attended law school and earned a JD degree, all while continuing to invest in and develop real estate.
Today, I own a sizeable and diversified real estate portfolio with low-leverage, non-recourse debt and no outside investors. In addition, I own a vertically integrated group of real estate investment companies.
More recently, I have co-founded and invested in several service and technology businesses, with an emphasis on martech, finance, and employment services. I enjoy building companies that generate cash flow with the intent to hold them long term.
I was also a co-founder and majority owner of the largest privately owned U.S. group of vacation rental service companies, grown without outside investors or debt. I started this group with $5,100 and exited portions of the business in transactions totaling over $100 million.
Most recently, I founded two companies that invest in publicly traded equities. I have also just founded a rapidly growing group of companies that I am not yet ready to announce, but which I expect will do some very big and exciting things.
I am always on the lookout for hungry, driven operators and talented salespeople to help run and grow my portfolio of companies.
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