Meet the Instructors

Cynthia DeLuca

What started with an innocent conversation with a co-worker turned into a lifelong love of rental properties. That was in 1999, when Cynthia DeLuca purchased her first rental property from that co-worker.

Since that time, Cynthia has purchased everything from single family homes to apartment complexes to commercial properties, and everything in between. Cynthia loves to purchase, renovate, and rent her properties for long-term ownership.

Cynthia has acquired all types of properties with all types of “unique” features, including asbestos, all kinds of termites, mold, fire damage, collapsed roofs and more. She even purchased an entire apartment complex in record time, 72 hours from contract to closing.

After being asked a multitude of times how she got started, Cynthia wrote a book called The High Heels Landlord, then followed it up with a second book, named Fill’er Up, both available on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. These books offer guidance through investing, purchasing and the rental process.

Cynthia’s passion is property management and investment properties. In her spare time, she collects more rental properties and visits her favorite hangout, Lowe’s.

For more information, please visit http://www.CynthiaDeLuca.com.  

Steven J. David

Steve has been part of the GRI faculty for over 32 years, consistently scoring in the top 1% of the entire faculty.

He’s been a frequent speaker at NAR conventions as well as State REALTOR Conventions including Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, Minnesota, Kentucky and Tennessee. He served as Florida REALTORS Chairman of Professional Development twice and Chairman of the First Florida REALTORS Leadership Academy. He was ‘State Educator of the Year’ in 1997 and again in 2017 as well as REALTOR of the year. Steve’s written over 30 continuing education programs for Florida, Arizona, Minnesota, Tennessee, Kentucky and others, and certification courses for the largest REALTOR association in the nation on the subjects of Investment property analysis and Property Management,

He started in the real estate sales business in 1974 becoming the top producing salesperson in CENTURY 21 Real Estate listing and selling over 100 million dollars in his first 3 years, today that total exceeds 1 billion dollars. That same year he started investing in real estate, and 46 years later has owned and managed 621 properties in Duval, Brevard, St Lucie, Broward and Monroe counties.

Grant Simon

Grant Simon is an award-winning mortgage originator and educator.

He was the 2015 Florida Realtor Educator of the Year and a 3 time ‘Educator of the Year’

for Orlando Regional Realtors® Association. Grant is on Florida Realtor Faculty and instructs for REBAC (NAR’s Real Estate Buyers Agent Council) teaching the Military Relocation Professional (MRP), Investor Financing and the new Home Finance Resource (HFR) certification course.

Grant is a retired National Competitor in Water Skiing – having skied in (10) consecutive National Championships and is happily married with 2 incredible sons with MBA’s that are almost off the payroll.

On a side note, Grant is an avid cyclist and connoisseur of fine bourbons.