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Well it all started with a wheel barrel, a shovel and a diploma from Saguaro High which l parlayed into the landscape industry to become a small business owner with all the ups and downs that a slave to the service trade offers.
My best customer eventually offered me a job in real estate to sell land up north in 40 acre tracts to valley dwellers in search of there little piece of Gods country. You may have seen the adds on the back of the TV guide, land prices started at $295/acre.
After a couple years of years of driving up and down the mountain every week I was able to piss off the president of the company to the point he personally fired me...I was honored.
Shortly after I was off to the Caribbean as a deck hand on a seventy foot sail boat that made its way through the Virgin islands to sail down island past Columbia to and through the Panama Canal and eventually moored in San Diego. I got off in Panama to spend some time with my girlfriend Denise Katz. We had fun but the boat wouldn't wait.
So I started my commercial real estate career in 1984 with a local company named Lyon Commercial.
Over the next 10 years I sold and leased real estate throughout the valley for three different companies. The best company that I work for was Lyon because of Tom Richardson our manager and a great guy(thank you Tom)
During the 1990's real estate was in the tank and I did a number of different jobs from working in a auto dealership to working at the Phx Open as a bartender to developing a company that built homes with metal framing to traveling through Texas, Florida and California aquiring/managing mobile home and RV parks for a start-up company that eventually sold to someone much larger than us.
Then, with a partner (my first) we purchased sub/non-performing notes on residential real estate throughout the mid west and east coast till the market got too expensive.
That lead me back to commercial land in 2004 and holds my interest today as this ever changing market begins a new cycle.
