I did not come into real estate through the traditional path. No college degree for this. No license. I started at the bottom.
Before real estate, I was a truck driver in the oil fields. I learned this business by taking action, finding opportunities, talking to owners, and figuring out how to create deals where most people saw nothing.
I started in houses. Then I built a real off-market operation with virtual assistants, large-scale outreach, and daily execution. At one point we had 19 VAs doing thousands of seller touchpoints a day.
Eventually I moved into commercial real estate. The first commercial property I found was a mobile home park I noticed while driving. That shaped the way I think.
The best opportunities are not always sitting in a database. Sometimes they are hiding in plain sight. Sometimes the owner has had it for decades. Sometimes nobody has taken the time to understand the ownership, the story, or the path to a real conversation.
That is what I got good at. Finding the overlooked opportunity. Building the data. Finding the owner path. Starting the conversation. Turning hidden assets into real acquisition opportunities.
That is the system I use today.