Early on in life I was enamored with the thought of being an entrepreneur. It may sound cliché, but I was like so many other entrepreneur stories, I opened a neighborhood candy shop before I was 10. In fact, my early childhood was riddled with ideas for making money.

I started a recycling company, a car washing company and any other idea I could make money on. I would convince my friends, brothers and sisters to either give me money or come work for me.

In high school I joined a multilevel marketing company selling long distance phone service and hiring friends to work under me. By the time I was in college I had the majority of my dorm hooked up with my long distance service.

In 2003, after graduating from college, I joined a Startup company called Neighborhood Loan. We would generate mortgage leads online and sell them to mortgage brokers. I was the top salesman in the first week and stayed on top during the duration of my employment. I signed on the largest account ever, JP Morgan Chase.

I was recruited away from N-Loan in 2004 by a financial firm in downtown San Diego called Advanced Equities. I was tasked with starting a satellite office in San Diego to recruit stock brokers.

While working in the heavily regulated securities market I realized that I wanted more freedom to be an entrepreneur. Stocks and bonds seemed like a good way to make money, but it was suffocating my creativity. I decided to get into commercial real estate.

I knew I needed formal training for credibility, but also to begin to understand the intricacies of real estate and find opportunities within the market. I enrolled in the University of San Diego’s Mater’s of Real Estate program and dedicated myself to learning real estate from every angle. I wrote papers that were published. I was class president and chairman for several networking groups. I was heavily involved with anything I could get involved with.

In 2008 I graduated. Just before graduation I wrote a business plan about a potential opportunity I saw in the current real estate market. I shopped the business plan around to dozens of people and it caught the attention of 2 investors. They liked the plan and gave me $600K to implement my plan. During the worst real estate market of my time, we generated positive cashflow every quarter for the past 5 years.

My latest venture is a company called Pup Protector. (