#46: Diego Corzo

The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life

Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart

House Flipping, Multifamily, Real Estate, Wealth, Investing, Business, Real Estate Investing, Self-development, Entrepreneurship, Rental Properties, Health

4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Diego Corzo is a real estate investor and agent, entrepreneur, and advocate for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.

In this episode, Diego shares his story of immigrating from Peru at age 9; overcoming a speech disorder; and seeking out successful mentors who helped him become a millionaire through real estate and business before the age of 30.

He also talk about:
- What life was like Peru and in the weeks and months after he arrived in Florida on a tourist visa
- Creating his own scholarship and selling study guides to pay his way through college
- Practical tips for finding and keeping mentors, including the "book report video" trick
- Riding a bike to and from jobs because he couldn't get a driver's license
- Speaking in front of Congress and visiting the White House to discuss DACA legislation
- His thoughts on a path to citizenship for DREAMers who arrived in this country as children
- How he became a successful realtor by apprenticing under a mentor
- How he became the first non-millionaire in Gobundance, the mastermind for "healthy, wealthy, generous men"
- Buying a "2% rule" rental house without immigration papers at age 23
- How he used money partners and "unfair advantages" to buy investment property
- His experience with rent-by-the-room and Airbnb
- Prioritizing experiences over material belongings and the value of organizing unforgettable 1:1 trips with your parents
- His own mastermind, The FI Investors, which talks about not only how to achieve financial independence but what comes next

Books mentioned:
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- Think and Grow Rich
- Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell

Diego's Charitable Cause:
- Immigrants Rising, an organization that provides financial, mental health, and career pathing resources to undocumented students

Sponsor: BetterLife Real Estate Funding (REF), which provides Hard Money, DSCR, Conventional, and Portfolio loans specifically tailored to real estate investors' unique needs

Connect with Diego:
- FI Investors' 2024 resources: E-Book, goal-setting worksheet, and more
- @realdiegocorzo on Instagram

Join the Tribe:
- https://abetterlife.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	And this is something that my mom told me when I was a kid. It's like, hey, this is our situation. These are the cards we're dealt. But you can still become whoever you want to become. You just have to work a little bit harder. Right. Like, I'm here in this podcast with you, undocumented and everything. And it's a blessing to be here and to be able to share my story. It's also a choice of not letting
0:21.4	your circumstances define you, but letting your vision pull you to what you want to achieve.
0:29.6	Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share
0:34.5	their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions,
0:38.9	and the beliefs that have guided their journey
0:40.5	with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. Diego Corso, welcome to the show, man. Thanks for coming.
1:02.6	What is up, Brandon? Super excited to be here in Maui.
1:05.5	Dude, all right. Thank you for coming out, by the way. So I know you, as I know you for a lot of
1:10.4	things. I know that you came to the
1:11.4	U.S. I know that you are well known in the industry as somebody who's a voice for a lot of people
1:18.5	who have come to the U.S., especially the DACA. We'll get into that, that whole thing. I know you
1:22.5	are a real estate investor. I know a lot about you because we've been friends for years, but who were you before all that?
1:27.9	Who was Diego Corzo?
1:29.5	Man, who was I?
1:31.6	So I am basically an immigrant, right?
1:35.2	As you said, that came up with a lot of issues coming here, transitioning from coming from Peru to the United States.
1:46.3	I used to have a speech impediment when I was a kid. And I grew up on the pursuit of the American dream, I would say.
1:54.5	And with my parents being a great example for me on work ethic resourcefulness. And it wasn't until later that I began meeting the
2:04.2	right people in my life that then I was able to take action. But at the end of the day, it was just
2:08.5	a hungry kid here in the United States that through a lot of obstacles, found a way to make
2:13.8	stuff happen and to achieve the goals and the dreams that I wanted. Being in a country
2:20.5	where I feel like if you have the right mindset and you pursue it with just that perseverance,
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