Buddha International Realty

By Valencia Burton Horton

Buddha International Realty's "Building a New Paradigm" transforms the real estate industry by restoring prosperity and balance to real estate professionals known as realtors, real estate agents, and brokers collectively. This vision is executed by the blueprint of a holistic ecosystem inspired by nature. This intricate

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mullen Press
• Release date: Nov 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781954016057

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A New Paradigm

This is not your ordinary walk in the park! Unfortunately, transformation is never painless. In order to build this new paradigm, my old belief system had to die!

After making a conscious agreement to start Buddha International Realty in June 2015, my life started to radically change. I was living in Los Angeles, California, with my family. I started seeing the Bay Area around me even though it was Los Angeles. Being very sensitive to subliminal signs, people would walk past me wearing shirts that said the Town or Bay Area. One day while driving home, yours truly became lucid and saw a cloud moving out of the way with the San Francisco Bay Bridge appearing out of nowhere. Yes, that sounds dangerous while driving, but this was the sign that it was time to relocate back to the Bay Area. For personal reasons, I had a lot of resistance to moving back. It was too much grief. After losing my mother there, I vowed never to return, but I couldn’t stop the energy of growth pushing me to leave. It radiated inside of me and all around me. Three months later, my husband and I moved our family back to the Bay Area to build this business. At the same time, I was also working with my husband on an invention that inspired another family business named Oya Products & Designs.

When I agreed to go back to the Bay Area, we suddenly received a pro bono Intellectual Property Attorney that picked up our invention to assist with the application of it through a non-profit company in Berkeley, California. Receiving such a magnitude of resources for what would have cost us tens of thousands of dollars was a second confirmation that all signs said reroute and we followed them. I was motivated, inspired, and a little frightened. We gave the majority of everything away except our clothes and memorabilia as we made the move to the Bay Area.

The plan was to live with my husband’s dad until we got our own place. I gave up stability and left Los Angeles to evolve. The decision was predetermined. It affected me, my husband, and five children. I pulled my oldest daughter out of school. She was seventeen, a Senior in High School, and unwilling to leave her friends, especially in her last momentous year. My other children were elementary age 7, 5, and 3, and my baby girl who just turned 1. As with any major transition, this one had bumps in the road. Driving down Interstate 5 North when the sun sets reminds me of the road to nowhere.

We enrolled the children in school upon our arrival, and the oldest started at an Arts High School. Our youngest remained with us until we could find her and our son, who was three, a daycare. I was going through a lot to get everything situated. I felt an inner urgency to handle as much business as possible to accomplish our basic family needs. Still, two weeks after arriving in the Bay Area, our lives changed forever—things began to unravel out of our control, it seemed. We couldn’t stay with my father-in-law because he didn’t own the home he lived in, and although he didn’t like it, the owners made us get out. I still needed to enroll the baby in daycare. I was devastated and felt helpless.

I started crying because I felt like I had failed my family. What do you do when your plan doesn’t work out? I didn’t have an answer. This seemed surreal to me. My family was everything to me, and I didn’t want to bring hardship on them, especially this. With a family of seven—my husband, our five children, and me—our 2004 Toyota Sienna minivan became our home for more than a year. Rent in the Bay Area skyrocketed due to gentrification. The trend was homeowners looking for tenants who worked in San Francisco and came to Oakland because it was cheaper than living in the San Francisco city. This created competition