Where Ya From? Part 2
Where Ya From? Part 2 Immigrant success stories would not be complete without the story of my flipping partner. Flipping, not used as a derogatory description of him, but describing how we were partners. We bought run down houses and transformed them into beautiful, welcoming homes. And we flipped them. It all started 25+ years ago when I was working at Coldwell Banker in Sunnyvale and Alfredo was a new agent in our office. He had heard that I was doing a flipper with a friend of mine. He approached me and suggested that if another property came along, he would be interested in working with me. Told me “I have the workers!”. He had come from Mexico when he was 17 – didn’t know the language, got a job sweeping out an upscale market, became a butcher there, bought his first house when he was 20 when he was already a father. Became a real estate agent when he was 21 and the rest is history. Well, a couple of months passed and another property did come along, I had a...