Welcome to another episode of Flipping Out. This is Paul Lizell, your host here and with me today is Matthew Pezon. And Matthew and I are both in investor field real estate mastermind. Really good mastermind. He just joined recently this year. And what Ma Matthew's got a great interesting background here. He's gone from a chemical engineer to a full-time real estate investor this year.
Mathew Pezon is a real estate investor and owner of Pezon Properties – a team of local Pennsylvania buy-and-hold experts who purchase and improve rental properties in the Lehigh Valley real estate market. Matt worked for 12 years as a chemical engineer before transitioning to a full-time real estate investor after double hatting for almost 9 years.
We're gonna dive into that. So I'm gonna throw it to you right now and, and get into your background. One year, chemical engineering, right? Yep. And then what led you to real estate and why did you want to go full-time? I know that's all I can chew on, but say this stuff for that. We'll, we'll start talking in between.
Yeah, sure. We can we can unpack. So a actually, I I stumbled across real estate investing in a totally roundabout way. It was actually through my love of Spanish and traveling which may resonate with some of your, your listeners. So during college I went to Lafayette College in Eastern Pennsylvania. And I, I studied internationally in Spain for six months and I, I got to travel and, and then I actually went back to pursue a master's degree. I did a Fulbright scholarship and I did a basically an MBA, the European version of that. And, and I, I wanted to go back to school because I didn't before. I went back to do my MBA. I was working for a large chemical company. I didn't have the financial wherewithal, but I knew I wanted to travel and I knew I wanted to go back to business school. And so I went to IE. Business school in Madrid.
During the coursework there, when I, I had no intention of getting into real estate. I, I had no intention of even learning about it, but it's an entrepreneurship based program. It's they did a module on, on finance and they touched for a quick moment on real estate finance. And it, it opened my eyes to the real estate investing world. I knew once I got back to the United States that I would that I wanted to pursue real estate entrepreneurship and real estate investments. And so I, I actually got into real estate outside of the country. I, I, I didn't know it at the time, but I, I wanted to, I, I learned during my, my MBA in, in Madrid that that real estate was what I wanted to do. I didn't wanna do stocks, I didn't wanna do bonds. I didn't eventually, I I wanted to not be working for a big company. I wanted to be an entrepreneur. And so that's, that's really how I got into real estate investing was, was outside of the country in another, another place.
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