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My name is John Sanford and I am the Managing Member of Sanford Real Estate & Investment, LLC – also known as “Sanford REI” here in Connecticut. Please note that as of April, 2025, we are opening up our real estate mentoring and consulting business to the entire continental United States! Here are some of the key points that got me to where I am today in real estate, foreclosures, real estate investing and real estate consulting/mentoring.
BACKGROUND:
OVER 40 YEARS in REAL ESTATE EDUCATION, FORECLOSURES, FORECLOSURE LITIGATION, AUCTIONS, REAL ESTATE INVESTING, and BEING A REAL ESTATE AGENT/BROKER.
- More than 20 years in civil litigation with many of those years handling foreclosures and foreclosure litigation cases.
- As a litigation paralegal, it prepared me extremely well to be organized, detailed oriented and had the ability to multi-task. This included taking the leadership role in handling all sorts of litigation files in 4 different states including working on death cases, the Exxon Valdez Appeal case and a 1.2 Billion dollar class action suit against Phoenix Home Life Insurance Company so being organized, detailed oriented, taking charge and being accountable was something I did every day for decades!
- For over 40 years, beginning in the 1980s, I read every real estate book, bought every real estate cassette tape, CD and real estate course I could find! From Carleton Sheets to Dean Graziosi to Robert Kiyosaki to Ken McElroy to Donald Trump. I graduated from Trump University and then began driving and flying over the United States to every real estate seminar I could find including Robyn Thompson, Armando Montelongo, The Esajian Brothers with Than Merrill and MORE watching every real estate flipping show and investing show I could find, especially on A&E and HGTV!
- After 25 years of all of the above research, I went and got my real estate agent license in Connecticut in 2007. From 2007 through 2014, I was a real estate agent and in 2014, I took even more classes and got my real estate broker’s license which ran from 2014 to 2025! I represented buyers, sellers and investors in real estate transactions that were on the MLS. So 18 years as a real estate agent and then broker added to my resume!
- Investing and “flipping” properties since early 2015 and to date, have seen double digit profits on every deal except two where we had single digit profits! So even when things went horribly wrong “flipping”, I NEVER LOST MONEY ON ANY REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND NEITHER HAVE MY HARD MONEY OR PRIVATE MONEY INVESTORS EITHER!
AREAS OF OUR BUSINESS:
- A. Mentoring/Consulting Flippers and Investors: The expanding section of Sanford REI is mentoring and consulting flippers and investors! Please Click the Tab “Investing” and scroll down to “Mentoring/Consulting”! Then head over to the Tab “Contact Form”, complete that in full and get it over to us! We then will email you out our Updated Pricing List! Then choose the services you want and we will take it from there!
- B. Investing in Sanford REI: We offer 4 very exciting options to get you going in the world of real estate investing! If you want more information about investing with us on our next real estate deal, please hover your mouse over the Tab above entitled “Investing” and click “Investing In Sanford REI”!
- C. Foreclosures: We also can help you with foreclosures! That’s right! We buy them, sell them, invest in them and can help you if you are going through a foreclosure right now! Complete that Contact Form!
- D. Providing Deposit monies to Flippers or Investors: See a new property you would like to flip or “buy and hold” but are short funds to “tie it up”? In most instances, we can provide you the deposit monies you need! Complete that Contact Form!
REVIEWS:
Want to read reviews? If you click on the Zillow Icon at the top of the page, it will connect you to my Zillow page. When you get to my Zillow page, just scroll down and read my reviews from when I was a real estate agent and broker in Connecticut. I just retired from being a broker in March, 2025. As you can see from the dozens of 5 Star Reviews, I fight like hell for my clients and I treat them as if they were family!!!
At Sanford REI, we are not about pie charts, graphs and fluff that you will get from many other agents and brokers in the real estate industry. We are about being honest, straight forward, professional, responsive, prepared, informative and loyal to our clients – offering them several fantastic things that nobody else offers! We truly believe this separates us from everyone else!
MY ITALIAN GRANDFATHER. Back in the late 70s when this picture was taken, my Italian grandfather Angelo Guglielmi (on the left) always told me (on the right) that “Loyalty was the most underrated, yet most important thing in life”. I have lived my life by this and I hope to have a long lasting loyal relationship with you as your #1 Real Estate Mentor/Consultant in the United States! I thank you from the bottom of my heart that you chose to come to us and I can’t wait to get started working with you to satisfy your real estate needs and/or reach your real estate investment goals.
Please read all of the information on each of our pages. You will find the information informative and straight forward. Then, again, feel free to click the Zillow Icon at the top of ANY page here on my website to read my reviews and don’t forget to also click the Facebook Icon at the top of ANY page to “Like” our Facebook page too! Look for me on Tiktok and You Tube in the future!
Please complete the Contact Form on the right and go to the “Contact Us” page and Click on the Red “Sanford REI Intake Sheet” and get it into us NOW so we can get you going!
Thanks again and I look forward to working with you!
John Sanford – Managing Member and Real Estate Broker
Sanford Real Estate & Investment, LLC.
222 Main Street, Unit 223
Farmington, CT 06032