William Fonseca
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I decided to use some of the contacts that my dad had left behind to give me access to home ownership.
Now I am into giving access to people for lack of funds, lack of credit, and I revolutionized what the home ownership program was.
I found out that most of these people, nothing against them, most of these people that get parachuted that are executives,
hold a large sum of money in their financial institutions.
CRA money.
They don't like to disclose it.
It's for first time buyers.
I walked into a bank in Coral Gables and I said, you know what?
I'm here to let you know that if you do not give me access to that, I'm going to the Miami Herald.
And I'm going to disclose those $30 million that the feds gave you for first-time buyers.
And I looked at homeownership with these eyes.
If you're going to give me a Section 8 voucher, $1,000, $1,500, why don't we...
allocate that CRA money for first-time buyers.
So using these contacts, I wandered up at the building department again into community development.
And there we got access to community development money for the end user, not for me.
Now I'm in my fifth house.
I got a little bit of money.
I've hooked up with an amazing woman, the pillar.
Because there's only two things in my life that have occurred throughout this whole story.
Jesus, because...