Assignment #1

My name is Vincent Ortega and I'm a senior finance major from San Antonio, Tx. I've enjoyed everything there is about sports ever since I was a kid. I played sports in high school and have continued to play intramurals here as well as keep up with Aggie football. I recently tore my ACL playing flag football, got surgery during the break, and now rehabbing my knee at the Central Texas for Athletes facility. I enjoy going on road trips to places all over the nation, broadway plays, working out, playing basketball, skiing, hiking, and working with wood to name a few.

I plan to learn the basic knowledge of real estate finance so that I can apply it for my own personal benefit. I enjoy gaining knowledge especially when I can apply to my own life. Sooner of later I will be buying real estate or even selling it, who knows. My short term goal is to get a job wherever I can because I just need to get experience and get my feet wet in the real world. Ideally I would love to get hired by an awesome company and I plan to work my tail off to do that, but I have faith that the Lord will provide regardless so I'm excited. My long term career goals include owning my own business one day, find myself a wife, and have some kids that I can teach sports, but more importantly show my kids how to be men/women of God.

I'm really not too interesting, but I did bungee jump the third longest cord in the world this summer in Switzerland. I got a chance to study abroad last summer and bungee jumping was the coolest experience of my life. I once was interviewed in high school for being the Scholar athlete of the week but other than that, maybe just a few times during Aggie football games.


The most interesting parcel of real estate that I've ever seen has to be the Coliseum. While I was in Italy I was so intrigued my the structure and how it could continue to stand for hundreds of years. The things that would go on in that place as well as the history really excites me. How did anyone ever think of a place like that? How was that place bought? Who owned it first? Real estate really does have a huge impact on history and that what excites me most about this class.