When I was six, my mother, brother and I immigrated from Holland. She moved us to Denver and we lived quite poor. Mom was a live-in housemaid for a man and babysat on the side. But she bought the house across the street with babysitting money. (She was a heroic single mother). She made a $20,000 profit on that home purchase in 3 years. That inspired me to go into real estate at 18. Twenty years later, I’d amassed a 50 million dollar real estate fortune; 800 homes, multiple apartment complexes, and my beachfront mansion.