Dario Lorenzo’s Background
Since 1988, Dario Lorenzo has invested in over 700 properties — with no money down or with creative financing. In the last nine years alone, he has bought and sold 83 million dollars worth of real estate, generating a year-over-year return on investment of 29%.
He began investing in Vancouver, BC Canada where he grew up. As his real estate business grew, he expanded to cities such as Toronto, Ont., Guelph, Ont., Fort Worth-Dallas, TX., Oklahoma City, OK., Phoenix, AZ., Prince George, B.C., Williams Lake, B.C., and even Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dario Lorenzo has a keen eye for profiting from economic downturns. His research methodology includes a six-month “walk-about” in cities he’s interested in. On these “walk-abouts” he develops relationships with the city’s Chamber of Commerce, city hall, brokers, lawyers, appraisers, realtors and property managers. It is in developing these long-term relationships that allows him to buy and sell properties from afar.
Dario currently lives in West Vancouver, B.C. He runs every day religiously. One hobby of Dario is “tinkering” with things. He loves working on cars and building things with his hands. It gives him a sense of pride and pleasure — to make something functional.
He also loves to travel. He’s known to hang out at airports and jump on a random plane somewhere on Friday and come home Sunday.
Best regards, Dario Lorenzo
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” Tony Robbins
| Meet the Team | |
| Alvin Yip | Colin Y.J. Chung |
| Eugene Flormata | Leslie Zhang |
As a graduate of the New Media program at Vancouver Film School, Alvin Yip has worked with a diverse range of clients from IEEE Computer Society to Warner Brothers to the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts.
He admits he “accidentally stumbled” into new media (or digital video production). He had originally wanted to get into the video game industry. Fate intervened though, and while browsing through an issue of WIRED magazine – he found the Vancouver Film School listed in the top ten schools to learn new media. Exploring further, he discovered he had a natural knack for it… and picked up the skill-set quite easily.
Alvin is well versed in Final Cut and the entire Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Dreamweaver).
When not editing videos, Alvin spends his time on his Yamaha R400 and dabbling in photography.
is voracious with his marketing education. He continues to study the classics, such as Caples, Collier & Hopkins… while also seeking out mentoring from today’s marketing geniuses (Perry Marshall and John Carlton are his favorites.)
He loves the world of direct response because it’s a profession where you must use both your right and left-brains. You have to understand buying psychology, while also paying attention to the sales figures.
Outside of marketing, Colin enjoys spending time with his family. As of this writing, his two-year-old son is obsessed with Bugs Bunny, so Colin is re-watching several of the Looney Toons again.
As clichéd as it may sound, Eugene is a true perfectionist. Several teachers at the Art Institute felt he would not be able to complete his coursework in time — due to the fact he refused to specialize in a specific area of animation. He took the extra time to master modeling, texturing, compositing… figuring out how to animate hair and cloth on his own.
Eugene’s been doodling since he was a child, drawing his favorite video game characters such as Nintendo’s Mario and Megaman. Today, his biggest influences as a computer artist includes Tetsuya Nomura (Squaresoft’s character designer for the Final Fantasy series) and Kim Tae Hyung (artist on Magna Carta)… both notable giants in the video game community.
As for other influences, he is a big fan of anything Pixar puts out, the Harry Potter series and the Transformers movies.
Eugene has dabbled in a wide range of computer graphic programs. ranging from Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Flash, Painter, Maya and XSI. In the 2006 CAEAA Elan Animation Awards, he achieved 3 nominations and 1 award.
When Leslie turned 19, she dove into the world of wealth-building. First, she began to trade the Forex and common stocks using a combination of chart reading and fundamental analysis. Then, while doing some online research — she accidentally discovered Neil Waterhouse’s “Marketing Wealth Blueprint”, an Internet marketing report. She reluctantly admits, “The reason I clicked on the ad was because (in the back of my mind), the name ‘Waterhouse’ reminded me of TD Waterhouse, a stock brokerage firm.”
And to top it all off, Leslie became a licensed financial services representative selling mutual funds and life insurance.
Leslie’s philosophy on marketing is this: It should be no-hype and as “friendly” as possible. People do business with other people, not faceless entities.
When asked about her “outside interests”, Leslie indicates business is her life. She attributes this perspective to a book she recently read (God is my CEO). In the book, the author says something along the lines of, “some people have it all segregated, business, personal, spiritual, etc., and they’re all over the map… but once you realize it’s all tied together, and see ‘life’ more holistically… life is much more fulfilling.”
