I was born in San Diego and grew up across the San Diego–Tijuana region — the binational corridor that’s been my family’s home for three generations.
My mother, my uncles, and my abuelos have been operating in real estate on both sides of the border for more than two decades: acquiring parcels, developing them, leasing them, selling them, doing it again. That’s how I learned this business — on the ground, on both sides of the border, long before any classroom.
By 16, I was working land transactions alongside my mother. By 18, I was on construction sites with my uncles — planning, financing, building, and leasing the apartments and commercial spaces our family developed. By 21, I had helped take somewhere between thirty and sixty units from raw land to producing income.
Acquisition. Construction. Leasing. Sale. Repeat. The full arc of a real estate venture, run more times than most agents see in their entire careers.
On top of that foundation, I built the institutional toolkit. A B.S. in Real Estate & Development from UC San Diego — a project-based program tied to actual properties, actual investors, and the financial models lenders and acquisition committees actually use. DRE-licensed Multifamily Investment & Development Advisor (#02282434). Five years in corporate sales at AT&T and Wyyerd Fiber sharpened the negotiation muscle and funded the transition.
What that means for you:
I’m not a transactional agent. Most agents in San Diego show properties, write offers, and close deals — I do those things, but my actual value is upstream. I run full proformas on every property worth considering. I model development upside under SB 9, ADU law, the State Density Bonus, and SB 1123. I structure JV waterfalls for partner deals. I project-manage small infill developments end to end — from feasibility through certificate of occupancy and the cash-out refinance after.
I work as both a real estate professional and a developer. Most people in this business pick one lane — the lanes inform each other. My development experience changes how I underwrite acquisitions, and my acquisition discipline changes how I run development projects.
If you’re buying your first multifamily, scaling a portfolio, or looking at what’s buildable on the lot you already own — I bring real estate finance, development experience, and deep knowledge of the San Diego–Tijuana region to the table. Not just a transaction.
