My Best Deal

It’s All In La Familia For This Broker And His Eight Hermanos

Name: Manuel Martinez

Job Title: Mortgage Broker

Business: Success Financial Group, Los Angeles, California

How much was your best deal?

My best deal equals to about $2.1 million. I did nine purchase deals in one, each averaging about $233,000 each.

What made it your best deal?

As he explained in a follow-up conversation with National Mortgage Professional, it wasn’t nine deals all at once, but instead reflects the way he has helped his four brothers and four sisters (his hermanos) each buy their first homes.

It was a truly family effort. One sibling would help another with the mortgage financing and so on down the line. “One way or another we got all my siblings into their first homes,” said Manuel, who is third oldest of the nine.

Manuel first got his taste for real estate when he helped his parents purchase their first home back in 1981 in La Puente, California: 20 minutes east of Los Angeles. They left behind a 300-sq. ft. apartment for the family’s new life (and a $52,000 mortgage at 13.5%). Manuel has been in the real estate and mortgage business since 1985. He helped his older brother get a mortgage for his first home in 1987. That brother would later build a small home for his parents on his 5-acre property. It’s become the go-tospot for weekly Sunday dinners that attract 30 to 40 relatives. Manuel’s late father turned the yard into a menagerie of animals including goats, llamas, ducks, cows, geese and more. It would become a popular spot for the 32 grandkids and seven greatgrandkids in the extended Martinez clan.

What else?

“What makes this deal unique is that most of my brothers and sisters were born in Mexico. I am sure my parents brought us here to this country over 40 years ago to achieve the American Dream and me being in the mortgage business for 25+ years plus just made it a little bit easier to do so.

Whenever I do public speaking, I tell people one of the reasons I love what I do is because I was able to help my family buy their own homes.

Manuel Martinez

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