Meetup Leaders
Dexter Harris
Dexter Harris is from South Central Los Angeles where he became a third generation gang member as a youth. Dexter Harris lost his father to senseless violence just months before he was born in 1982 and his mother struggled with drug abuse for most of Dexter’s childhood. Dexter graduated from high school a teen parent, with two children. After working dead end jobs to provide for his family, he went to college and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice while working two jobs and maintaining a family with his former wife and their four children. Dexter currently has a vending machine company that he has scaled up to multiple locations. In 2020 he started educating himself on commercial real estate, multi family investing and is currently a passive investor on 456 units. Dexter Harris is interested in the San Antonio and Houston TX markets and his goal is to purchase 24-200 units in areas that are on the the path of progress.
Jason Malabute
My name is Jason Malabute. I am a real estate investor born and raised in Los Angeles. I was born with cerebral palsy. Growing up had ups and downs. Some people believed in me, but a lot didn’t. I guess some things don’t change. However, I never cared about society’s expectations of me. I remember laying in my bed, looking at the ceiling and thinking, “I just want the world to see me like how I see myself.” I had a big and somewhat crazy aspiration coming up. As a kid, I was a big Kobe Bryant fan. I used to practice basketball for 5-8 hours a day. Looking back, I was a terrible basketball player, but at the time, there was nothing you could have told me to deter me from being the first NBA player with a disability. A couple of decades later, I took the same tenacity, dedication, obsession, and healthy delusion in the business world.