Maria is a full-time real estate investor. She initially got her start doing fix-n-flip properties, then moved to buy and hold and later to spec builds and land development.

In a former life, Maria was a trauma nurse working days, nights, weekends, holidays and not seeing much of her family. She has been a divorced single mother, her oldest daughter is disabled and she knows all too well what it was like to have more month than money. She learned early on that real estate was the answer, creating more millionaires and billionaires than any other industry.

Maria has been featured on ABC New's Nightline, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily and various other publications. She, along with her husband Gary, are the authors of 4 books and speak nationally on real estate investing.