Lloyd Segal
President, Los Angeles County Real Estate Investor’s Association
After practicing law for over 30 years (specializing in real estate litigation), Lloyd Segal assumed leadership of the Los Angeles County Real Estate Investor’s Association in 2016 from the late Phyllis Rockower. Lloyd is also an author, real estate investor, mentor, and public speaker. Now located in Los Angeles, California, Lloyd was born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (Go Steelers!). He attended Boston University, Boston University Law School, Southwestern University School of Law (where he was President of the Student Bar Association), and studied international law (and skiing) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Lloyd is the author of several best-selling real estate reference books, including “Everything You Wanted to Know About Chapter 11 Bankruptcy…but Were Afraid to Ask”, “Stop Foreclosure Now in California” (Nolo Press), and “Stop Foreclosure Now” (American Management Association). In 2015, “Stop Foreclosure Now” was selected “Best Personal Finance Book of the Year” by USA Today Book News, based upon helping homeowners avoid losing their homes in foreclosure. Lloyd also wrote “Foreclosure Investing” (Regency Publishing) to educate real estate investors on how to buy foreclosure properties. Lloyd’s newest book, “Flipping Houses” describes how to get started finding, financing, fixing, and flipping houses. All of Lloyd’s books are available at Barnes & Noble bookstores, and online at BarnesAndNoble.com or Amazon.com. With his extensive experience and writings on real estate and related topics, Lloyd is considered “America’s Leading House-Flipping Expert.”
Lloyd is an informative and exciting public speaker with over 25 years of professional real estate experience. He has been interviewed and/or quoted on National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox Business News, Los Angeles Times, Parade Magazine, Smart Money, Publisher’s Weekly, and numerous local radio, TV, and newspapers around the country. He is also a frequent guest speaker at universities, boards of realtors, Coldwell Banker national conventions, real estate investor clubs, and numerous other real estate and service organizations throughout the United States.
With respect to investing, Lloyd has fixed and flipped over 40 properties in the past twenty years. Lloyd specializes in large multi-million- dollar estates. He looks for houses over 4,000 sq ft (with at least half-acre lots) that are seriously distressed. Lloyd enjoys fixing and flipping these behemoths, which then become “case studies” for his books and seminars.
Lloyd also has a Private Mentoring Program for investors looking for one-on-one intensive mentoring. The goal of his unique program is for new investors to buy a property within 60-90 days, while at the same time learning the practical aspects and local customs of real estate investing. But because of Lloyd’s other activities, he only takes 2-3 students at a time.
Lloyd is a volunteer member of Mercy Ships, which provides humanitarian assistance after natural disasters around the world. In 2005, Lloyd traveled to New Orleans and volunteered in the recovery after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city and killed over 1,800 residents. In 2010, Lloyd went to Port-a-Prince after an earthquake devasted Haiti, aiding in the relief and recovery efforts that destroyed homes and killed over 160,000 people! Lloyd would have done it again in 2014 after a typhoon and tsunami destroyed Phuket, Thailand, but was stopped at the border because he didn’t have sufficient vaccinations. And of course, Lloyd will volunteer again when the next natural disaster inevitably strikes somewhere in our world.
Lloyd is an avid horseman. His passion is polo. He is a member of the United States Polo Association, and the former President (nine years!) of the Will Rogers Polo Club in Pacific Palisades, California. Lloyd is honored to join with Sam and Linda to present this annual GRAND EXPO to the Southern California real estate community.