Avery: Hey everybody, welcome back to the show! We have a really cool guest for y’all today—Brian Davila. He runs Future Flipper, he’s the Chief Growth Officer with the Ryan Pineda company, and he’s a real estate investor. He’s done a lot and has an interesting story, from being an ex-child model to doing all the things in real estate. Excited to talk to him today. How’s it going, Brian?

Brian: Awesome, awesome, yes, I’m excited to be here as well. Thanks for having me.

Avery: Why don’t you start off by telling us a little about yourself?

Brian: Sure! I’ll give you my quick backstory. I was actually born in Puerto Rico but moved to Las Vegas as a kid with my mom, who was a single mom. She took care of me and my sister. I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and really struggled with addiction and other things like that until I was about 25. That’s when I got into real estate.

Avery: Wow. How’d you go from all that into real estate?

Brian: Well, since 2015, I’ve done more than 300 real estate transactions. I’m a realtor, flipper, wholesaler, and I own a handful of Airbnbs and about 28 doors right now.

Avery: That’s amazing. We’re definitely going to dive into all of that, but I want to hear more about the transition you made. You mentioned struggling with addiction. How did you go from that into real estate?

Brian: Growing up, I think I had something called Oppositional Defiant Disorder or something similar. I had an issue with authority and struggled to follow rules. I didn’t believe in a lot of things and had a tough time in high school. My mom was struggling too; she was a cocktail waitress, and I remember when the real estate market crashed in 2008, she was fighting to save our house. I remember the pre-foreclosure letters, and I felt like I needed to help her out.

So I started working and doing whatever I could to make money, which at that time included some substances to escape reality. But by the time I was 25, I knew I needed to focus on the real world. At 21, I managed to get a decent job at a bar, and from 15 to 25, I worked two or three jobs at a time.

One day, I was working in a barber shop when a client came in. He had a big Nixon watch and drove a Mazda. I asked him what he did for a living, and he said real estate. He told me he made $50,000 a year, and I was blown away! He pointed me to a real estate school in Las Vegas, and I went. My teacher there gave a big motivational speech about how you can achieve whatever you set your mind to.