{"id":42353,"date":"2026-07-07T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyonion.com\/education\/?p=42353"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:53:18","slug":"an-evening-with-tony-stern-at-boca-real-estate-investment-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyonion.com\/education\/an-evening-with-tony-stern-at-boca-real-estate-investment-club\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening With Tony Stern at Boca Real Estate Investment Club"},"content":{"rendered":"Invited back to the stage for the first time in five years by the Boca Retire Investors Club, PropertyOnion co-founder Tony Stern tells the full story of how a kid who left school at fifteen and a half in 1970s London ended up building one of the country&#8217;s fastest-growing distressed property platforms. He traces a career powered by an entrepreneurial father and relentless hustle, from a six-year apprenticeship buying and renovating London bedsit buildings to importing telephones, running a dental gold reclamation business, repairing jewelry for names like Cartier and Tiffany, and eventually buying shopping centers in the United States. Tony explains how a move to Boca Raton to semi-retire in 2013 lasted about three months before foreclosure auctions pulled him in, how he nearly bought a $5,000 condo that would have buried him in liens, and how that near-miss, along with the hours-per-property research nightmare that followed, became the founding idea behind PropertyOnion. Tony also pulls back the curtain on the predatory seminar circuit with its confusing three-day events and $45,000 upsells, explains why PropertyOnion Academy was built as an honest, mentor-driven alternative, and shares the story of the Riviera Beach tax deed he bought for $366,000 that returned a $100,000 profit, before closing with a plain-numbers case for why now is the best time to get educated about tax liens, tax deeds, and foreclosures.\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative; padding-bottom:56.25%; height:0; overflow:hidden; margin:24px 0;\">\n  <iframe style=\"position:absolute; top:0; left:0; width:100%; height:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RMqfInbdPWw\" title=\"The $80,000 Blind Spot: Foundation Repair or Contractor Trap?\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#eaf4fb; border-left:4px solid #1a9fd4; padding:28px 32px; margin:32px 0; border-radius:4px;\">\n  <p style=\"font-size:18px; font-weight:700; color:#1a1a1a; margin:0 0 10px;\">Find Foreclosures, Tax Deeds &#038; Distressed Properties<\/p>\n  <p style=\"font-size:15px; color:#444; margin:0 0 22px; line-height:1.65;\">PropertyOnion researches the lien stack, checks priority order, and flags the traps before you spend a dollar. Stop guessing at the auction. 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