Luis Salinas

Luis Miguel Salinas was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela in 1972 and moved to the US in 2003. When he was very young, he developed a passion for Aviation. When he was 17 he enrolled on Pilot School. By the time he was 19 he was already flying in Commercial Airlines as a Pilot.

Apart from holding a Commercial Airline Pilot License he was a Flight Simulator Instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy in Miami for about 8 years.

Luis Miguel began investing in Real Estate early during his career as a Commercial Airline pilot. Later on, the “casual investing” soon evolved into a major Commercial Real Estate Business. Therefore, in 2006 Luis resigned from the Aviation industry to concentrate exclusively on the Real Estate Business.

Luis Miguel acquired his Florida Real Estate license in 2005. In 2014, he became a Florida Real Estate Broker and launched Emporium Realty and Prive Funding as a real estate crowdfunding platform. Luis also holds a Certificate of MIT Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investment and he is a FORBES Real Estate Council Member.

In the past 15 years, his real estate experience includes purchases and sales of real estate, consulting with developers and investors, underwriting analysis, due diligence investigations, cost estimates, management of real property, tenants relationships (including tenant investigations, leasing, and evictions), and construction management. Luis is an investor in residential distressed properties and commercial value-add properties. He has expertise in when, where and how to buy properties at favorable prices necessary for attractive returns for his firm and investors. Luis considers the future of real estate is in democratizing it through Crowdfunding, where investors now have access to investments that were difficult or impossible for them to participate in before.