Education and Church Service After I graduated from Oxnard High School (1994), I started to phase out of cycling and attended one semester at Ventura College. During that time, I began preparing for a 2 year volunteer missionary experience through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was assigned to the La Paz, Bolivia Mission and was there from April 1995 until May 1997. There, I became fluent in Spanish. After returning from Bolivia. I was married in 1998 (at the young age of 22) and started a family. In the year 2000, I graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (minor Latin American Studies). I continued working on my Spanish language skills there through the required upper level Spanish courses. My first career out of college was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as a Spanish “Contract Linguist”. I began there several months before September 11, 2001. For the next 8 years, I worked in this capacity translating for agents and prosecutors. I worked on cases in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Chicago.
My Start in Real Estate In 2002, I started my first business – Muse Music. If you’ve seen the movie Footloose, then you can understand the circumstances that led to this business. Provo’s only live music venue had quit allowing live music events due to a new municipal “dance hall ordinance” that restricted such events. A loophole in the law allowed live music as an incidental business. I started Muse Music as a used vinyl record store with a buy-sell-trade business model and live music at night. The business became so successful that we purchased the adjacent commercial building for that business. In 2003, my dad had become terminally ill. Our small family relocated back home to California where I could spend with him during the last few months of his life. That Fall I had been accepted to the Southwestern School of Law, but I deferred attendance due to my dad’s illness. In 2004, I started my career as a real estate sales agent. By that time, I already had purchased various properties while the market developed its infamous “bubble”. I was also able to sell off some property before the bubble burst in 2008. This experience taught me how to adjust businesses during downturn and recession. I also had started up and managed a successful bicycle shop with multiple locations and its own customer based amateur cycling team. In 2008, my ex-wife and I separated and by 2009, the divorce was final. During difficult time in my life, I managed to stay productive. I spent a little more time bicycle racing, obtained my real estate broker license, hired agents, did some traveling, and did a 7 day stage race in Mexico. At the end of 2009, I met Olie, who had returned to the United States and moved to Canoga Park. We married in 2011, and had a child in 2013. In 2013, I also started law school at Northwestern California University School of Law. In 2017, I completed law school. This has helped me expand my knowledge for business and real estate purposes. In 2019, I passed the California State Bar exam. I have since worked with attorneys in real estate and related matters. In 2020, Olie and I began a nonjudicial foreclosure business. My legal training has helped me grow my knowledge of real estate contract matters, mortgage loans, and foreclosures. Real estate related business is and always has been my passion. I’m committed to the real estate business, my clients and the public.
Civic Involvement In 2016, like most Americans, my frustration with government and politics hit a boiling point. In the summer of 2016 during the campaigning of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I joined the Libertarian Party. I supported the Gary Johnson campaign and worked for our local party as media chairman. In January 2017, I was elected Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Ventura County. In 2019, I was elected as member of the judicial committee of the California state Libertarian Party. I am also an active participant and member of a local government watchdog organization in Ventura County, which was recently responsible for the return of over $34,000,000.00 to ratepayers through a lawsuit. I am active in my church. Since 2021, I have volunteered as an English Second Language (ESL) teacher. This class is open to the community.
Let’s do business! I work full time as a broker and Realtor. I work in both residential and commercial sales, offer management services, and mortgages. Working directly with agents I employ, and clients to help them understand our business are my favorite things in this business. Check out Sold2000.com for information about real estate sales, mortgage loans and agents. If you’d like to start a mortgage loan application, you can go directly to Fund2000.com.