About
I bought my first home at 23 and sold it 15 months later for a 30% profit. That was the moment I got hooked.
For 23 years since, I've bought, sold, renovated, and operated dozens of homes: single family, small multifamily, condos, long-term rentals, and Airbnbs. You learn differently when your own money is on the line and you're staring at your own P&Ls.
That experience reset how I look at a home. I focus on what buyers actually pay for, where the real risk is, and what the market will reward.
I co-founded and ran CBase Solutions, Inc, a government contracting firm with 26 employees. We worked across agencies including the National Library of Medicine, USPTO, DHS CBP, and the Library of Congress.
My clients get both sides. Investor judgment on what to fix, what to skip, where the risk is. Operator discipline on running it: scope, vendors, timeline, budget.
Why did you create 16DayPrep?
I represented a Bay Area home buyer and the seller shared invoices for the prep work they did to get the house ready. They spent over $50,000. It was a waste.
My client and I were already planning a full renovation right after purchase, so roughly $47,000 of the seller's prep work was wasted. I coordinated the contractors. We gutted the kitchen cabinets they repainted, replaced the windows where they painted the trim, and tore out the floors they refinished.
I realized that when it's time to actually sell, most homeowners get pushed into one of four broken paths:
Sell As-Is
Leave money on the table.
Do It Yourself
Months managing contractors and burning weekends.
Fake Concierge
Hidden fees. Inflated invoices. Incentives work against you.
Commodity Realtor
Volume churners, discounters, or part-time friends. Anyone can list, but your net outcome suffers.
A Better Choice
I told my client upfront: if I ran the prep and sale start to finish, he had to let me use the property as a case study to show other homeowners how a sale should be done. He agreed.
I ran the whole sale at 1458 Portobelo so my client only had to approve key decisions and pay invoices remotely. I built the strategy, the checklist, the budget, and the timeline. He approved, and 16DayPrep was born.
Get Your 16-Day Prep Plan
I'll walk your home, tell you what we'll fix, what we'll skip, and what it'll cost.