I’ve held a California real estate license since 1988 and a broker’s license since 2018 (DRE #01009857). Over those years I bought, sold, remodeled and built homes across Los Angeles. My work has included new construction and fix-and-flip projects.
I co-founded True West Realty, which I ran with my partners from 1996 to 2000, and Sandy Garcia Realty, from 2018 to 2020. At both, I hired and trained agents.
Working with homes taught me how a project really comes together. Buying and selling put me close to the decisions people make about where they live. Remodeling and new construction meant taking plans through approvals and into a finished building.
That experience stayed with me. HiberTec is a new kind of home, but it still has to work as a home.
In 2015, I bought a fixer property in West Adams, Los Angeles, with two partners and brokered the purchase. I co-designed the new duplex with Aaron Brumer, who is now HiberTec’s lead architect, and we sold it in 2018.
Before, design and after: the original fixer, our first design rendering and the finished duplex, with white walls, dark vertical cladding and a roof terrace.
In 2016, I bought a Spanish estate in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, with two partners. I supervised the full rebuild, and it sold 10 months later.
I served as Chief Operating Officer of Focus Craft, Inc. from 2018 to 2019, running the residential and commercial construction company out of North Hollywood. That’s where the idea for HiberTec began.
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