Interview with John Medina

John Medina is the owner and founder of John Medina Buys Houses.   John's Bio:   I am currently a real estate investor, cash home buyer, house flipper, family man, and believe it or not, a former plumber. As a plumbing contractor for 21 years, I always had a passion for real estate. In 2013 I decided to make buying and renovating houses his full-time job. Since then, I have been in the “house buying business” and has flipped over 70 houses to date.I was born and raised in San Pedro, California (near the Port of Los Angeles). I currently take an active part in my community as it is important for me to be honest with people. As I always say we at my company believe in doing what we say were are going do, be fair, and leave people in better situations than when we found them!”I got interested in real estate because I did have a plumbing business. I worked on a lot of properties over the years. So, I started to think about an investment property or two of my own. I had a budget and wanted to basically leverage that budget. In 2009, I emersed myself in started studying more and more about the industry, the business. As I was about to start looking around, I started to get a little fearful. That’s when I enrolled in a Bruce Norris boot camp to look at how to invest in property in California. That’s when I started taking action in California. I bought my first property in Wilmington (California) in 2012. Right around then, my plumbing business started slowing down a bit. Instead of ramping up for that business, as I felt things were sort of changing for me, I decided to make real estate investing and house flipping my full-time business. I had the education and confidence and also took another 20-week educational course. In November 2013, I along with my wife and her “okay” [and that was a 1-minute decision because at that point we both knew this was a business we could truly get behind full-time], started shutting down the plumbing business and began ramping up the house flipping business.Social Media Links::https://www.facebook.com/johnmedinabuyshouses/https://www.instagram.com/johnmedinare/?hl=enhttps://twitter.com/JMBuysHouseshttps://www.linkedin.com/company/john-medina-buys-houses/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaahtgHo58IMgnK44slAALg