John Dirgo

Early Life I could do this as a resume-style document but that would bore anyone looking at is as much as it would bore me to write it. I was born into a real estate family, with a mother that was a real estate broker (with her own company, in Colorado, in the 1970s). It was a small one- or two-person shop but the mere fact that she did that, at that time, was ground-breaking. My father was a mortgage banker. Real estate was what surrounded me from an early age. Running Away So, of course, I ran far away from it. I took a 20-year detour into the technology field - from teaching myself programming at 14, to designing computer networks for the Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, to telecommunications software to being the geek-in-charge for several hospital systems. But real estate never really left me even though I tried to leave it. I bought and sold houses, rehabbed ...