CURRENT

I currently work as the director of acquisitions for one the fastest growing private equity firms in the country Disrupt Equity based out of Houston, TX.

I started apartment investing as a side project during the pandemic and had so much success I quit my 9-5 to focus multifamily full time.

I've successfully closed on 19 transactions in the past 3 years with a total of 3,311 doors under management with another 673 under contract set to close later this year.

I help every day investors secure their financial futures through investing in multifamily syndications, which is simply a fancy word to describe pooling investor capital.

On my own, if I had $100,000 to invest, I'd probably be able to buy a $500,000 to start with. Nothing to write home about, maybe a single family house or a duplex somewhere.

But if I got 30 friends together who each had their own. 100k like me, then together we could take down a 100 unit property somewhere, and that property would be big enough to have property management so we didn't even have to do the day to day.

That's what a syndication is and I teach investors how they can get involved in this low risk, high reward vehicle and get out of the stock market roller coaster.

PREVIOUS

After highschool, I had academic scholarships to FSU and UF, but I wasn't particularly excited to attend more schooling after a lifetime of it. When 9/11 happened, I saw that as my call to duty and I joined the armed services in October 2001 as a Korean Linguist military intelligence operative. I served 5 years active duty honorably before heading back to my hometown of Miami. I had always been a frugal spender, so even with an army salary of 18k per year, I managed to save up over $40,000. Unfortunately I didn't understand any level of financial literacy and did what any early 20 year old with tons of cash and no cares in the world would do in Miami: Party!

For two years straight, I slowly blew through my entire nest egg, drinking, dancing, eating with no vision of how life could be had I simply learned to invest. What's worse, is I actually read Rich Dad Poor Dad, but where I come from, being a landlord is for "rich people" so I never even considered it a possibility that I could have used my own money intelligently back in 2006.

Fast forward to me running out of money, I decided to keep the trend going and went into 6 figure debt by attending a private university in Orlando by the name of Full Sail where I would get my degree in Videogame Programming.

Then the recession came.

I couldn't even get a job as a programmer at the time but bills were piling up and I decided to take a position as a life insurance salesman. At the time I didn't realize it but in hindsight, those three years were probably the most educational and formative years of my adult life. I learned how to sell. I learned how to build rapport. I learned how to build relationships all in that short time.

Although I could personally sell, I didn't have the chops to grow a team. Eventually I burned out and tried my hand at the corporate world.

I moved to Kansas City where a college buddy of mine got me a job at this bullion dollar tech company. It was here I learned that the 9-5 cubicle life wasn't for me. I also learned how corporate sabotage worked when a colleague lied about me and subsequently got me fired. It was the happiest day of my short tenure at Cerner.

That lead me to work as a federal employee, ironically starting off as an Account Executive in the multifamily branch of HUD. I knocked it out of the park. Governemt employees are notoriously slow and comfortable. I pounced on the opportunity and became the rock star of Kansas city, even holding office as the Union President for a time.

But when I climbed as high as I could, hitting that coveted 6 figure salary ceiling, I knew I had to search elsewhere. That's when I learned about real estate investing, I bought my first duplex in 2018, made a ton of cash with airbnb, but soared with apartments.