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The Mike Litton Experience

From Creative to Closings: James Brown’s Real Estate Revolution

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Business, Kids & Family, Parenting, Careers

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we sit down with James Brown — a former graphic designer turned real estate problem solver — who’s changing the game with RealHomeSolutions.org. Based in Colorado, James helps families, self-employed individuals, and recovering borrowers break back into homeownership through innovative lease-to-own and hybrid investing models.

James shares his journey from growing up in rugged Alaska and working on commercial fishing boats, to building a career in design, and ultimately finding purpose in real estate. With a heart for service and a mind for strategy, James opens up about how he helps people who were told “no” by traditional banks finally say “yes” to owning a home.

If you’ve ever struggled with financing, dream of investing, or want to understand creative real estate, this episode is packed with personal stories, powerful insights, and practical solutions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And I had the house that I bought.

0:04.0

I was really debating on what to do with that because I liked living there, except for the neighborhood was sketchy.

0:14.1

And I'm like, well, I could turn this into a rental and go buy something else.

0:19.2

And all in an area where there's occasional gunshots and break-ins and prostitutes and

0:25.4

drug deals, like all of this stuff.

0:27.7

Yeah, it's a great feeling.

0:28.9

I mean, oftentimes they're just, they've got tears of joy, right?

0:33.5

Because the banks were telling them no, and they had lost hope.

0:37.3

I'm usually the last call.

0:38.8

They like start Googling options.

0:42.5

And when I can get them in an house, it's a great thing.

0:46.5

I mean, boats would go down and we had some close calls where like the boughs going into

0:51.8

the O wave and windows are like underwater.

0:56.0

Like they knocked out windows.

0:57.7

We never had it happen, but that's scary.

1:00.2

I want to like change my life.

1:02.9

And I wasn't initially prepared to like stop doing graphic design.

1:07.8

I was just going to invest alongside.

1:09.5

But I was like, I can't do everything.

1:13.9

I was kind of tired of the graphic design, the business side of it. I'm like, I'm going all in.

1:21.1

So I just going all in. But I thought, ah, this might be kind of tough, like all about numbers and negotiation,

1:31.9

kind of dog eat dog.

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