My Future Self Thanked My Past Self — Building a £1.7M Portfolio in 3 Years with Etan Becerra.

Etan Becerra walked away from a 15-year "dream job" in oil & gas and turned a £nothing fishing-village plot in Mexico into the foundation of a £1.7M property portfolio — 23 properties and 6 investors in just three years. In this episode of the Nexiphorcast, Dorant Dushi sits down with Etan to unpack how he reframed property investing from "buying houses" to structuring investments backed by physical assets — and why he believes Scotland is the UK's most overlooked market: structured, lender-friendly, and built on certainty over hype. We get into the part nobody talks about — cash flow as the real make-or-break ("80% of the story is told by someone looking at the cash flow") — why the industry is professionalising fast, and how AI is about to separate the prepared from the left-behind. In this episode: The mindset shift that made his first deal possible ("buy whatever you can afford") Reframing property as an investment company with physical assets Why Scotland beats London for safety and certainty Cash flow: the hardest, least-visible skill in the game The two things that actually move the needle: raising finance & finding deals Where AI fits — and the admin he'd hand over tomorrow 🎙️ Hosted by Dorant Dushi · Guest: Etan Becerra, Black & Armenta 🌐 black-and-armenta.com