SAVING ENDANGERED SPECIES 
ABOUT THE ARTIST AND AUTHOR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (as of 1998) Will update ASAP
The author has avoided all types of degrees in order to insure non conventional thinking as a survival tool. This method is not recommended, it just has to do with knowing oneself. He prefers to teach himself a discipline by interpreting books and information without someone else's opinion. This is not to say that he hasn't attended many schools and colleges, it's just that he only took the classes he wanted.
At nineteen, he started into the barter world big time. He became a California real estate agent in Santa Barbara. As a personal favor to a mutual friend, one of the top firms there hired him, Sunset Realty. The broker at Sunset was very fair and objective about the situation. He told him that he couldn't have a desk and that he would only allow him to use the office for a ninety day period. He wasn't trying to be mean, as anyone that knows Silvio would tell you, it's just that in his heart he didn't think someone his age could survive in real estate. Silvio thought he would just learn a hard lesson and then move on to something else. Or as the saying goes, fools go where angels fear to tread. He heard this saying many times but it wasn't until much later that he would realize it's full meaning.
That year he became the second highest grossing agent in the office and obviously received a desk and full support by the broker. His method of survival was to specialize in tax deferred real estate exchanges. This was back in the early nineteen sixties when the government had just begun to confiscate property and over regulate all form of investments and businesses. Real estate was still fun. It took almost thirty years for the government to destroy the joy of doing real estate exchanges as a broker. He recently let his license expire permanently, just as he had his registered representative license with the Securities Exchange Commission. Some of the other casualties where his California insurance and annuities license and his Federal commodity options license. He received that license in the first group ever issued a commodity options license in this country. The only license he currently has is his drivers license and he would like to get rid of that. Just joking!
At age twenty one he had accumulated enough passive income, without getting into any debt that wasn't covered by rental income, to retire. He played golf for about six months and realized that retirement would never be a goal of his. He did try it two more times. One time to draw hundreds of pictures and another time to write several books. He is the author of "The Evolution of The International Capitalist Party" which is a very serious political book and "The Blue Guppy" which is a tongue and cheek interactive novel about the conflict between the environmentalists and the entrepreneurs in California. Each time, his retirement activities drove him back to doing what he really likes to do the most, trading, exchanging, bartering or whatever else it can be called.
He is currently studying computers and brain physiology. If you get an opportunity to read his other books, you would see how that all ties together. Believe it or not, these studies are to help close a concept real estate exchange. If that deal is consummated, he's promised to write another "How To" book about the transactions that went into the making of his concept exchange.
Continued: 2010
Well, that was then and this is now.... five computer languages later and one dreadlock ponytail. There are now two important features that have been added to this non profits inventory. Both are games in the making. One more serious than the other but hopefully they will both bring in revenue to help with the mission as outlined on the home page.
The serious one is the Plizzel Game and Financial Planning Matrix. This is meant as a training site for furture entrepreneurs and innovators. It should also direct them into helping others learn how to fish instead of waiting around to be given their fish each day by the Commucrats of Power that are trying to take away human dignity. SEE: plizzel.com
The less serious project is a new way to play golf. SEE: snogol.com
As a webmaster and real estate exchangor, I'm designing a recommendation engine for the professional real estate world. SEE: reiesandiego.org.
I have a book prepared for both real estate professionals and readers that want to see what is happening in the developers sphere. Some of this reads like science fiction but is actually happening. "Creative Real Estate for a Bad Market"
