I did not come up the traditional way — no degree, no license. Before real estate I drove a truck in the oil fields, and I learned this business by taking action: finding opportunities, talking to owners, creating deals where most people saw nothing.
I started in houses and built a real off-market operation — large-scale outreach, daily execution, thousands of seller touchpoints a day. It worked, but it taught me the limit of volume: blasting more owners does not surface better parks. It just burns through more of them.
Then I moved into commercial. The first commercial property I found was a mobile home park I spotted while driving — and it shaped how I think. The best opportunities are not sitting in a database. Often the owner has held for decades, and nobody has taken the time to understand the ownership or the path to a real conversation.
That is what I got good at: finding the overlooked owner, building the data, and starting the conversation. That is the system I use today.