823 Advizers

Anthony

CEO/Managing Broker

Buckingham Investments

University of Southern California
Loyola Marymount University - MBA

Anthony has over 15 years of experience in investing, brokerage, and company leadership and operations across industries including commercial real estate investing, real estate brokerage, and insurance.
Real Estate
Real Estate
Spanish & Other Languages
International Relations & Affairs
Honors Student

Q1Career path

Career Pivoting

Real Estate Investment

Entrepreneurship

3:15

"my kind of business thesis was that those two would make perfect complimentary businesses to each other."

Q2Main responsibilities

Real-World Examples

Executive/Leadership

Communication

2:22

"First and foremost, my main responsibility is to set the direction for the organization, strategy, leadership, vision, all that kind of stuff."

Q3Day in the life

Real Estate

Financial Analysis

Leadership

1:40

"I had to help navigate the company through that and how to respond to all these things in, in sort of our legal environment."

Q4Most important skills - role

Communication

Sales

Initiative

1:34

"I say intelligence because you have to be able to understand it well enough to explain it to people basically we teach."

Q5Favorite parts - role

Financial Independence

Investing

Leadership

0:43

"That feels really great to feel that excitement and that's really fun for me."

Q6Biggest challenge - role

Executive/Leadership

Overcoming Challenges

Industry Realities

1:07

"Each sale probably has a lead time of a minimum of six months, maybe longer."

Q7Favorite parts - industry

Financial Analysis

Investment Strategies

Real Estate

1:05

"The best thing about real estate is it can be whatever you make of it. It's such a huge field, full of opportunity"

Q8Who thrives in industry

Networking

Communication

Persistence

1:09

"The most successful agents are extremely persistent, well-spoken, gregarious, friendly people that will be the type to talk to everybody."

Q9Wish known before - industry

Relationship Building

Real Estate

Networking

1:31

"The people that I've seen that come in and try to do that never really work out. Whereas the people that come in and don't know a thing and they're just gonna go out and meet everybody they possibly can and bring 'em into the office, those people are the ones that end up being really, really successful."

Q10Entry-level positions

Junior Agent

Analyst Roles

Real Estate

1:29

"One would be as an analyst. A marketing coordinator would be another one. The most common way to get into the business is to start as a junior agent."

Q11Significant lesson - career

Industry Realities

Real-World Examples

Executive/Leadership

1:15

"Watch the debt, be careful of the debt."

Q12College ideas for success

Executive/Leadership

Career Exploration

Overcoming Challenges

2:00

"you're so young, you have time to figure it out"