Dave Dinkel graduated from the University of Florida in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. He initially worked for a petrochemical research and development company in Illinois. Later he entered the financial arena as a stock and commodity broker with Merrill Lynch. While a stock broker he became a Certified Financial Planner and later started his own brokerage firms and staye
d in the financial services industry for 22 years before retiring to pursue his love of real estate investing. Dave Dinkel has been a national platform speaker, contributor to local real estate clubs, mentor and consultant to numerous real estate investors and all the while running his own real estate business. He has been a real estate investor since 1975 and has been involved with more than 5,000 closings. He has received the first-ever awarded “Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to the Real Estate Investing Community”. While being active in real estate investing for over 45 years, he and his wife Nancy have been married for over 55 years. He is most well known for the development of his Mentoring Program that has been called, “The Best Mentoring Program in the Country” which he continues today. He is often referred to as the “Teacher of Teachers” and his Mentoring continues to produce Students who go on to be national real estate “Gurus”. In addition to his Mentoring Program, he started a full-service transactional funding Program so that new investors had the ability to do deals with no money of their own. He challenged the funding industry by making borrowing money very simple with his “One Point Funding Program” which has revolutionized the transactional funding industry and made millions of dollars available to investors who otherwise could not have afforded it.
