I've Seen What Happens
When Nobody Shows Up.
My grandmother lost the home my grandfather built — the house where nine of us grew up — because she had no one she could actually trust to help her. That's why I do this work. And it's why I do it differently.
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Where this started
My grandmother lost our family home.
I was there.
I grew up in the Los Angeles Heights neighborhood of San Antonio — nine people in a three-bedroom, 900-square-foot house that my grandfather built with his own hands. As a kid, I'd cross the tracks and look at the houses in Olmos Park in wonder. That neighborhood felt like a different world from ours. Real estate meant something to me long before I understood what it was.
In 2008, during the housing crash, my grandmother needed repairs done on that house. Someone sold her a high-interest loan she didn't fully understand. When things got tight — as they always do — she couldn't keep up. She had no one in her corner. No one who could explain her options. No one willing to sit with her and fight for her.
She lost the home. All nine of us had nowhere to go. For years, we moved from house to house, staying with friends, bouncing around. My grandmother is still impacted by what happened to this day.
"She didn't have anyone she could reach out to who actually wanted to help. That one fact has shaped everything about how I do this work."
Justin Tejeda
The path here
I didn't come from money.
I came from hustle.
I grew up watching people around me who seemed successful, and almost all of them had some connection to real estate. I wanted out of the cycle I was born into. So starting around 2015, I started going to real estate seminars — showing up in rooms where I felt completely out of place, sitting through pitches for mentorship programs I couldn't afford.
I kept talking about it with everyone I met. In 2020, I bought a car at a local dealership and mentioned real estate to someone there. He connected me with an investor who was willing to let me ride along, visit his properties, and absorb everything he knew — in exchange for me bringing him every deal I could find.
I showed up. I hustled. I soaked it up like a sponge. I went through lead channel after lead channel, learned the market inside and out, and kept pushing until I found the area where I could do the most real good: San Antonio homeowners facing foreclosure. Especially in the years around COVID — the job losses, the medical emergencies, the hardships that came out of nowhere — I saw how many people needed someone in their corner.
I studied Fine Art at Texas State in San Marcos — metal smithing and jewelry design specifically. I met my wife there. We lived in San Marcos for seven years, spent some time in Houston, and came back to San Antonio, where I've spent almost my entire life. We have a toddler now. This city is home.
A case that meant everything
Sometimes the right deal
isn't the profitable one.
Now I come across all different situations working in this space but earlier this year (2026) I worked with a woman named Sarah. She's a Christian, like me — and she told me afterward that she doesn't usually open the door for strangers, but something told her to open it for me. I like to think that wasn't an accident.
I went back to her house at least three times. Her situation was one of the hardest I've seen: a failed bankruptcy she'd filed herself, a rough divorce with terrible terms, multiple failed loan modification attempts, and over two years behind on her mortgage — more than $20,000 in arrears. She even had a realtor already, one who listed the property and essentially let the foreclosure clock keep running without really fighting for her.
I wasn't going to knock that door. She had an agent. But I did anyway.
Through a subject-to deal, I brought in one of my investor partners who caught up every dollar of her arrears. We paid Sarah $5,000 at closing — money I didn't have to offer but felt was right. I let her stay in the property for three weeks while she got settled, and helped her move her entire household into her new apartment.
My total take on that deal: $2,000. A lot of driving for dollars, three house visits, hours of negotiation with her mortgage company, all the coordination with my investor partner and attorney. For $2,000.
It was one of the most rewarding things I've done. Sarah made me a four-minute video testimonial that you can watch below. What I saw in her through that whole process — the calmness, the faith, the grace — reminded me why I pray before I go out and knock doors. A lot of what I do in this work, I take direction from God. I don't think I show up at the right houses by accident.
Here's what happens when you reach out.
Most people don't call me — they get a sticky note I left on their door or a card in their mailbox. But whether you call, text, or I show up first, the conversation goes the same way.
I introduce myself briefly and let you talk
I'm not there to pitch. My door-knock opener is: "Hi, my name is Justin — I noticed your lender was giving you a hard time and wanted to see if I could help." Then I stop talking. About 80% of the time, people open up immediately.
I ask what you're hoping to achieve
Keep the property or sell it — that's the first fork in the road. Everything else flows from your answer. There's no wrong answer and no pressure toward either direction.
I gather the real picture
What's the situation, how far behind, what's been tried, what's the auction date if there is one. The more honest you are with me, the more I can actually help.
I walk you through every real option
Reinstatement, loan modification, bankruptcy, cash offer, subject-to with possible leaseback — I run through what applies to your specific situation and give you my honest read on each one. No pressure. No agenda.
You decide. I support whatever you choose.
If it's keeping your home, I'll work the phones with your lender. If it's selling, I'll connect you with the right buyer or agent. If it's something else entirely, I'll tell you honestly and point you the right direction.
My commitment to you
What I will never do.
The first real estate seminar I attended had a "guru" who taught investors to go knock on foreclosure doors and use what he called the "atomic bomb" strategy — scare homeowners into selling cheap by describing the sheriff dragging them out of their house in front of their neighbors. He called it his favorite tactic.
That was the moment I understood what I didn't want to be. Here's what I promise you:
ⓧ I will never use fear to pressure you into a decision. Your situation is already stressful enough. My job is to reduce that pressure, not weaponize it. |
| ⓧ I will never tell you a cash offer is your only option when it isn't. I've talked to homeowners who were told by other investors that they had no choice but to sell - when they had real equity and real alternatives. |
| ⓧ I will never push you toward an outcome that benefits me more than it benefits you. Sometime the right answer for you means I make nothing on the deal. That's okay with me. |
| ⓧ I will never leave you more confused than when we started. Even if we can't work together, you'll leave out conversation knowing exactly where you stand and what your real options are. |
My NETWORK
I don't operate alone —
and neither should you.
Depending on what you need, I bring in the right people. I have an active network of local partners who've helped me close deals that no single person could handle alone.
Cash buyer network Investors who can close fast, cover arrears, and in the right situation, pay you cash at closing even when you're deep underwater. |
| Foreclosure-focused agent A local agent who specializes in distressed properties — for when a traditional listing is the right move and there's time to do it right. |
| Real estate attorney A trusted attorney I work with on TROS, trusts, owner finance, and subject-to transactions — when legal structure matters. |
| Investor partners Even Local operators who do rentals and buy-and-hold — the partners I bring in when a creative structure like subject-to with leaseback is the best path forward. |
| I've helped well over 250 San Antonio homeowners navigate foreclosure or pre-foreclosure in some capacity over the years — through calls, door knocks, negotiations, and direct deals. Every situation teaches me something new about what's possible. |
That's all it takes.
I'll tell you exactly where you stand and what your real options are — and if I can help, I will.
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