On this episode of the Massimo Show

Rod sits down with 2021 Massimo CRE Accelerator of the Year – Mason Fiascone. Mason is currently a Local Inland Northwest Multifamily Expert in Eastern Washington State for The Paragon Group. 

Mason grew up in the Chicago suburbs north of Chicago and Gurnee, Illinois, and loved all kinds of things: leadership, business, entrepreneurship, “everything I could get my hands on” Mason tells Rod “typical kind of firstborn type A personality”  He started a lawn mowing business mowing lawns in the neighborhood, he was the only male babysitter in a roughly five-mile radius and was involved in Catholic leadership through his high school. 

After graduating high school in 2012 he went to undergrad where he met his wife, studied marketing and philosophy, and then worked for four years in corporate America at Unilever. Mason did marketing work for big brands like Ben and Jerry’s, Dove and Hellman’s to name a few. “But I realized that my wings were a little bit clipped being in the corporate world. And so while working a full-time job and living in Charlotte, and New York and San Francisco, I was doing everything I could to learn about real estate” Mason explains to Rod “everything I could to understand how can I get out of the corporate world and into the generating income and providing a life for my family.” 

After a year and a half, Mason realized he’d only scraped the surface of real estate and that he needed to get into the business full time. He decided to be a multifamily specialist and saw a lot of opportunity in his market, which is Eastern Washington. He built the business plan, jumped in, and has found a lot of success since then. And that was 15 months ago from today, in January 2020. 

Mason and Rod spend the rest of their time together discussing how he read Brokers Who Dominate and then Knowing Isn’t Doing on the recommendation from a friend and absorbed every single piece of information, how he stumbled through his first few deals (including an unwelcome guest in the basement of a four-plex), how his pipeline completely changed after starting coaching with The Massimo Group and what’s happening over on Real Estate Twitter.