Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience Podcast.

Mike has over 31 years experience in real estate, finance, and investing.

He's passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader.

Everyone has a story, and our passion is to help them tell it. And now,

introducing the host of the Mike Litton experience, Mike Lytton. So what can you expect from

the Mike Litton experience? You can expect stories that will inspire, motivate, advice that will sharpen your focus,

and expert information on real estate, finance, and market conditions.

Derek, Harms, thank you so much for being on the Mike Litton experience, bud.

As you well know, you're one of my favorite people, and I admire you greatly, and I truly

enjoyed working with you.

Thank you so much for spending some time with us and telling us your story.

Absolutely, man.

Happy to do it.

Thanks for the kind words and the feeling is mutual, Mike.

So as we talked about, what our big thing is, is everybody has a story, right?

And our passion is to help them tell it.

So with your permission, what we're going to do is we're going to have you tell your life story.

And in order to do that, we'll start with your permission at the very beginning.

So where were you born?

I was born in Burbank, California,

which is a suburb of L.A. Got it. There's an airport there too, right? There is an airport there,

yes. Do you grow up in Burbank? No, I grew up in Valencia, which is another suburb of LA. People know Magic Mountain, which is, yeah, north L.A. County.

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