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“I was in care at 8 when my mother went to jail – now I’m a multimillionaire real estate entrepreneur collecting supercars”

Ayo Gordon recalls that he was only eight years old when he thought he and his mother were going on vacation.

At that time he lived with her in a one-room apartment in Kennington, and Ayo, now 37, recalls: “Although my mother had nothing, she gave me the bed and slept on the sofa.”

Going on vacation to Jamaica with his mother was a dream for Ayo.

But when he got to the airport, he watched his mother get arrested for importing cannabis.

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She was serving nine months of a two-year prison sentence during which Ayo was taken into custody.

After they were reunited, they were given two-bed council housing in Clapham.

Fast forward to today – now that Ayo owns property valued at over £ 10 million – he bought his mother a riverside apartment in Vauxhall.

But the road to his now incredible success was rocky and began, says Ayo, with her move to a more affluent neighborhood.

“I saw a different way of life growing up in Clapham,” he says. “I realized that not everyone lives in public housing.”

Ayo’s mother was the hippie, Glastonbury-frequent black sheep of a much more middle-class family that she ran away from around the age of 17.

Ayo says he felt having a white mother and black father who left him as a toddler made him an outsider.

Ayo Gordon has come a long way from a meetinghouse in Kennington

He never felt fully involved in his white family and said it was difficult to find a friendship group.

“My estate was very racially segregated,” he says, “but the whites saw me as black and the blacks saw me as white. It was a lonely way. “

Ayo was expelled from school for fighting, thinking his only way out was the music industry.

“A lot of people in the community believed they were watching Top of the Pops and thought that was the only way out,” he recalls.

“They know you are not going to move up the academic tree or corporate structure.

“People who look like you did it that way.

“The last 20 years have been transformative – but then I believed it – I was a product of my surroundings.”

Although he started producing music for local artists and selling mixtapes on the street, Ayo couldn’t help but notice that it “never made any money”.

The priority among the people he knew was making money by any means, which he says meant people often skipped the recording sessions to sell drugs.

“I felt like the system was almost like a scam. I felt like I was losing, ”says Ayo, who was attracted to similar crimes and began to“ get arrested weekly ”.

Things started to turn when Ayo worked for a sales group representing charities for two and a half years.

He worked entirely on a commission basis and went door-to-door six days a week to raise funds for charities such as the RSPCA, NSPCC, and the Dogs Trust.

“It wired my brain right – if you don’t work you don’t get any money,” says Ayo.

“And you learn to deal with rejection when 100 people slam the door in your face every day.”

Ayo Gordon with one of his supercars.

Ayo Gordon with one of his supercars.

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In 2011, despite having saved around £ 20,000, Ayo was unhappy, dissatisfied, and came under increasing pressure to turn a criminal again.

Then, while reading an online real estate magazine and wondering if he could get into it himself, he saw a stretch of the amazing success of someone he knew.

“I thought damn it! How the fuck are you there The last time I saw you, you rented a room, “he recalls.” That awakened something in me. ”

Ayo contacted him – and was very impressed that he did so through his PA.

He arranged a meeting with his old, now successful friend to ask how he became a real estate millionaire and how he could do it.

His friend had received mentoring from real estate investor Glenn Armstrong, and he just passed all the information on to Ayo.

Ayo started handing out leaflets saying “We’re going to buy houses fast” and cut out the real estate agents.

Property millionaire Ayo Gordon in his signature top hat.

Real estate millionaire Ayo Gordon in his signature top hat

He said, “You find people who like to sell a house cheaper so it can be done quickly – people whose houses are repossessed, people who have something expensive to pay for, like a wedding.

“I once had a lady who had to quickly release equity so she could invest in cryptocurrency.

“She was happy to sell her house for £ 30,000 less as she was confident she would get it all back.”

The fact is, Ayo says, people who are millionaires often make money using creative strategies that most people are unaware of.

For example, Ayo once bought a property for £ 1,501. As?

“A lady called and said she had to sell her property but couldn’t sell on the open market,” he says.

It appears that her husband had amassed £ 150,000 in debt on her behalf, and that debt, along with what was left on the 16-year mortgage, was more than the house was worth.

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“I said, ‘I’m going to inherit your mortgage and your debt,'” says Ayo. “All that had to be paid was attorney’s fee of £ 1,500, and £ 1 made it a legal purchase.

“She left the property over the moon to be out of debt and although I have negative equity and can’t sell this house, it will be worth a lot more in 16 years and in the meantime it is making rental income.”

Ayo claims he’s “not really a big financier” on the same breath as saying that he likes cars and bought Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Rolls Royces – but declares that with tangible possessions “the novelty is worn out – it’s not that A and O” “.

He’s not interested in “raining” in clubs or Salt Baes restaurants, but prefers to train people in real estate strategies, which he does as an annual course and at an online university.

His favorite money was when he paid for a group of 17 people he was mentoring to go on vacation in Spain.

And, of course, the opportunity to buy his mother a riverside apartment in Vauxhall to “take her away from the council house – she was always so selfless with me”.

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