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.

Juan Betancourt, thank you so much for joining us as our guest on the Mike Litten experience. I cannot thank you enough for taking time out of your

schedule to do this. I'm so excited about our time together. Like we talked about 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 and go all the way up to today and then we can talk about all the amazing stuff that you're working on for today and or tomorrow.

Okay? Sounds great. Thanks for having Mike. Appreciate you being here buddy. So where were you born?

Fairfax, Virginia right outside of DC. There you go. I know where Fairfax,

Virginia is. So did you grow up in Fairfax? Grew up on the other side of the border in Maryland in a place called Silver Spring.

Okay. And so my father was a professor at the University of Maryland teaching economics and my mother, her family, they're're both Cuban so they left during the Cuban

revolution and her entire family settled at a place called Lake Barcroft really

beautiful place in seven corners, Virginia, where Fairfax is.

Okay, so what was your favorite thing about growing up there?

We lived on a dead-end street, eight houses, no cars coming down and every house had dogs and kids and so it was just kind of

What was that movie the goonies? You know kids playing around the park we there's a

backyard with horses and then a forest and we could go for hours and it was all

trees and at the same time though we were you know 30 minutes from the nation's capital.

So it was kind of a metropolitan-esque area, but we kind of lived like it was in the country.

It was great.

Almost like an oasis are in the middle of all that. It was an oasis right in the middle of all that it was an oasis and a very diverse group of people the street

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