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.

Alex Vidal, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Litton experience.

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, go all the way up to today,

and then we want to talk about the amazing things that you're doing with

ERA real estate nationally. Is that cool? Yeah, absolutely. You're being here, man.

Thank you for. Thanks for having me. I'm always humbled that people want to hear the story.

Every single, I don't get it, but let's see if we can inspire some people along the way.

You will, buddy, I promise you. So tell us where you were born.

So I am a Miami-born Cuban, first generation Cuban American. My parents

immigrated from Cuba in the 60s when Fidel Castro kind of took over.

It's a really interesting story and it's a we can go down different rabbit holes,

but essentially my on my dad's side both my uncle my grandfather were political prisoners of Fidel Castro because they were trying to fight communism my grandmother essentially sold everything she had b the judge, got them out of the country,

sent my dad in Miami, my uncle, my grandfather to Spain.

And so my dad was in Miami, my mom,

same thing, they had to sell everything, not political prisoners, but my grandfather

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