Maria is a full-time real estate investor and nationally recognized speaker on real estate investing. With over two decades of experience in the industry, Maria knows the ins and outs of real estate investing like the back of her hand. However, her journey to becoming a successful real estate investor was not an easy one. In a former life, Maria was a trauma nurse for Scottsdale Healthcare, working long hours and not seeing much of her family.

Maria's personal experiences with financial struggles and a demanding work schedule pushed her to find a solution. She discovered that real estate has created more millionaires and billionaires than any other industry and decided to invest with her husband Gary. Within less than 45 days, Maria was able to replace her income as a trauma nurse and made over $648,000 in their first six months investing in real estate. Together, Maria and Gary created a multi-million-dollar real estate business using exclusively other people's money.

Maria has done just about every deal you can imagine, from Airbnb’s to fix-n-flip, land lording, owner financing, spec builds, minor land divisions, short sale, rent-to-own, syndications and her favorite, creative deal structuring. Her real specialty is making the impossible possible and profitable through options, seller financing, subject-to’s, and WRAPS, which means she has seen every scenario out there of what gets people in trouble.

Maria is the author of four books on real estate and has been interviewed by numerous news articles and websites, including RealtyTrac, Investors Business Daily, and The Wall Street Journal. She has also been featured on ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America. Maria is passionate about helping people learn to invest in real estate using little to no money of their own, creating an investment portfolio that will allow them to create the life of their dreams, a life on their own terms.