Welcome to the Mike Litten Experience Podcast.

Mike has over 31 years experience in real estate, finance, and investing.

He's passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader.

Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. And now introducing the host of the Mike Litten experience, Mike Litten.

So what can you expect from the Mike Linton experience? You can expect stories that will inspire,

motivate, advice that will sharpen your focus, and expert information on real estate, finance, and market conditions.

Brian Townsend, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Litton experience. I cannot thank you enough. I'm so excited for our time together. I know you can't tell because I hide it well, but like we talked about before we before we hit record, everybody has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. So with your

permission we're going to start with where you were born, go all the way up with your life story to today and then we can talk about anything you want to talk about that you're working on today and then also for tomorrow, okay?

All right, great, yeah, happy to be here, Mike, thank you.

So thanks buddy, I appreciate you being here. I'm so excited about this. So, thanks, buddy. I appreciate you being here. I was so excited about this. So tell me of where you were born.

I was born in Stuttgart, Germany. My father. Yeah, my father was in the US Army and it was the second deployment to Germany and born there on the military base, but moved back to the United States when I was still pretty young so not a lot of memories of Germany at that at that time.

Right. So when you moved back did you because dad was in the military did you guys move around quite a bit?

Not too much. I was born later in his career. We moved back to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, which is just outside of Washington, D.C.

And I was eight or nine years old when he retired so it was his

last assignment and so I military brat without all the moving how's that there you know that worked so so did you grow up in in Virginia? I did he once he retired he stayed active with the military as a contractor and we moved just down the street in Northern Virginia and I stayed there until I graduated high school.

There you go.

So what was your favorite thing about growing up there?

Just a lot of great memories with my father.

He was a great man and you know fishing and and I would spend time with him at his he ran a he did a lot of graphics arts things like that for the military and he ran a big shop there and I would get to spend time with him and sometimes the entire days I'd go to work with him and you know help probably more get in the way of the things he was working on but just those quality memories those quality memories with my father.

So pretty sure I know the answer to this already,

but who was the most influential person to you growing up?

It definitely might add. Great man, a good family man, strong work ethic and just had a big heart.

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