Lex Levinrad
Lex Levinrad, Real Estate Investor, Speaker, Author and Mentor
Lex Levinrad has been a full time distressed real estate investor since 2003. He has been involved in buying, rehabbing, wholesaling, renting, and selling hundreds of houses in South Florida. Lex is the founder and CEO of the Distressed Real Estate Institute, which trains new real estate investors how to wholesale, fix and flip properties often with no money down. Lex specializes in buying foreclosures, short sales and bank owned properties and offers mentoring and coaching programs, bus tours, boot camps and home study courses for real estate investors. Lex is an accomplished national public speaker and has shared the stage with some of the countries best real estate speakers. Lex has authored numerous books about real estate and is also the the founder of the Distressed Real Estate Investors Association. Lex is also a licensed realtor with Charles Rutenberg Realty. For more information about Lex Levinrad please visit http://www.lexlevinrad.com or call 800-617-2884.
Lex Levinrad's Background
Lex Levinrad's Experience
Founder and CEO at Distressed Real Estate Institute, LLC.
July 2003 - Present | Boca Raton, Florida
Lex Levinrad has been a full time distressed real estate investor since 2003. He has been involved in buying, rehabbing, wholesaling, renting, and selling hundreds of houses in South Florida. Lex is the founder and CEO of the Distressed Real Estate Institute, which trains beginning distressed real estate investors about how to find wholesale real estate deals. Lex specializes in buying foreclosures and bank owned REO homes and offers private mentoring, bus tours, boot camps and home study courses for real estate investors. Lex is an accomplished national public speaker and has shared the stage with some of the countries best real estate speakers. Lex has authored numerous books about real estate and is also the the founder of the Distressed Real Estate Investors Association (DREIA) and the co-founder of the Port St Lucie Real Estate Investors Association (PSLREIA). Lex is also a licensed realtor with Charles Rutenberg Realty. For more information about Lex Levinrad please visit http://www.lexlevinrad.com or call 800-617-2884.
CEO at Lex Holdings, LLC.
July 2003 - Present | Boca Raton, Florida
Lex Holdings, LLC. specializes in the acquistion of both residential and commercial real estate throughout the state of Florida. Our focus is on distresssed real estate including foreclosures, REO's and bank owned properties. We are active purchasers of mortgages, and existing assumable portfolios.
President at Levinrad Capital Management
January 1995 - June 2003
Lex Levinrad is the founder of Levinrad Capital Management, Inc. a previously Registered Investment Advisory Firm Located in Sherman Oaks, California. As the principal of this firm Lex Levinrad, acted in the capacity of Branch Manager and Registered Options Principal of First Allied Securities, which cleared securities through Bear Stearns and Co.
While in this position, Lex was consistently one of the top producers in the firm managing tens of millions of dollars for hundreds of high net worth clients including the CEO of a high profile publicly traded company and one of the original founders of one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Lex has previously been licensed as a General Securities Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, Registered Investment Advisor, Registered Options Principal and Registered Representative. Lex specialized in selling options, especially covered calls.
Branch Manager, General Securities Principal at First Allied Securities
May 1995 - May 1998
Branch Manager, General Securities Principal, Registered Options Principal and Municipal Securities Principal for branch office in Sherman Oaks, California. Held the following licenses:
Series 7, 63, 4, 24, 55, 53, 65, California Life and Health.
Compliance Registered Options Principal at TD Waterhouse
December 1992 - May 1995
Compliance Registered Options Principal for Kennedy Cabot & Co (acquired and changed name to TD Waterhouse).
Arbitrage Trading Clerk at Chicago Board of Trade
May 1990 - May 1991
Worked in the Ten Year Treasury Note Pit As an Arbitrage Trade Clerk.
Lex Levinrad's Education
University of Phoenix
Concentration: Bachelor of Science-Finance/Accounting
San Diego State University
1989 – 1991
Concentration: Bachelors of Science Finance
King David High School, Linksfield
1975 – 1984
Lex Levinrad's Interests & Activities
sailing, boating, fishing, scuba diving, travelling, reading