The Wolf of Wall Street was born of this paradigm shift, Bernie "the bastard" Madoff was it's love child given unto the world. 

I was born and raised here and now do real estate investing here as well! 

I used to rent a room with you guys in el born a couple of years ago haha loved that place. 

My name is Joshua Ibarra born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, and I currently have one single family rental.

As someone born and raised in San Francisco, I know the feeling of not being able to find deals that make sense both by the numbers and landlord laws.

I'm an investor, general contractor and broker born and raised in the Charlotte area and would love to see if I could be of any assistance.

I keep comparing to Aussie and other countries world wide.Buyers agents pretty much don't exist and only listing agents do.true, US is almost always the most complicated one, in other country no need to have buyer agent but there're more, no need to pay tax when selling house, no need to put all 2000 pages disclosure when selling house  , no need to have house with so many certification (required in some states ) before renting it out , no need to hire expensive licensed american-born General contractor when repair house, no need to call specialized licensed educated electrician / plumbing with ipod because it's just .... plumbing. no need to pay tax with annual increase .... no need to pay ridicilous amount of insurance every year no need to check their credit score and immigration status when renter is impying LOL the list is on and on

Born and raised in Lake Arrowhead and personally own several STRs in Arrowhead, and own an insurance business where we specialize in hard to insure homes and STRs in the mountains!

As for the median American in my age group, yes I'm way beyond that and I attribute that success to the following:- Willing to delay gratification on a regular basis- Willing to do jobs no one else wants to do- Willing to work long hours for results (a strong work ethic)- Willing to take calculated but high upside/low downside risks- Willing to allow the "fruits of my labor" to be returned to the business instead of paying for a lavish lifestyle- A strong commitment to these principles by my spouse- A strong run of being healthy enough to work to produce excess profits- The fortuitous grace of being born and growing up in the United States, where opportunities for financial success are everywhere and accessible to anyone- A splash of luck at being in the "right place at the right time"

Born in Croatia ..