Not a guru story. A 15-year operating story — properties bought, mistakes made, teams built, and a life designed around travel. Here's the honest timeline.
"I believe life is too short for slow returns."
Caught the travel bug on a high-school trip to Spain. Started looking for a way to earn a living while seeing the world.
Read Rich Dad Poor Dad — shifted toward assets that earn money without costing money. Paid for college working restaurants and hospitality.
Bought a first property: a 4-plex in Sacramento, CA — lived in one unit while the other three covered the rent.
Added a duplex and a single-family home. Started staying in Airbnbs — and saw where this was going.
Became a commercial real estate investment broker: deal analysis, comps, markets, cycles — $2B in transactions.
Read The 4-Hour Workweek, quit, bought a one-way ticket to Argentina, and went nomadic. Converted a first long-term rental to short-term — 4–8× the returns.
Converted three more units. The system started to take shape.
One of the early units — 2016.Bought an 8-unit building in Tennessee, hired a first team member, formed MidTown Stays — and moved to Colombia full-time.
Acquired 32 more units and a first international investment in Colombia.
Invested in Brazil. Launched Short Term Rental Riches — the podcast — and began teaching investors through Rest Methods.
The team had grown so strong we started managing other owners' properties remotely, exactly like mine.
MidTown Stays became Corzly — now running properties in 50+ cities across 8 countries.
Breaking ground on a ground-up STR community development in Colombia. The next chapter.
These days home base is Balneário Camboriú, Brazil — a beach town on the country's south coast. When I'm not on a tennis court (which is as often as I can manage), I'm doing the thing I still enjoy most: improving operations, day in and day out, for hundreds of short-term rentals across the U.S. and around the world.
Same obsession that started with a single Sacramento 4-plex — just a lot more doors, a lot more team, and a lot more travel between them.
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