User:Robert K Burns

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The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.


Robert Burns grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Go Eagles!). He attended and graduated with a BS in Secondary Education from East Stroudsburg University, 1978.

After receiving his degree, Bob took a job in San Juan Puerto Rico as a teacher and football coach and learned the Spanish languate. He started investing in various assets while living in Puerto Rico and continued here in South Florida. His experience includes buying pre-foreclosed properties, tax lien purchases, buying and selling discounted paper, rehabbing various sized properties from single-family homes to multi-unit buildings, education and consulting. Living and interacting with Puerto Rico’s Latin community was a lifetime experience and ended up staying there for ten years. Bob arrived to South Florida from Puerto Rico in 1988 to take a job with Dow Jones. While working for Dow Jones, he had the opportunity to further travel the Caribbean and Latin America and spent several years in Mexico City.

In 2001 Robert Burns founded a small real estate investment firm located in South Florida called International Global Group, Inc. IGG helps the professional investment community market, sell and buy real estate assets.

Over the years IGG has been able to build a powerful real estate investor database of individuals and companies containing names, addresses, telephones numbers, emails and web sites. It has implemented marketing campaigns to help establish a bond between him and IGG's clients. Value added services like; Short Message Service (SMS) messaging, VIDEO, email, Internet marketing strategies, Search Engine and Web Site Optimization programs have also been implemented. Its marketing strategies have given IGG a marketing reach to investors and realtors throughout the US, Puerto Rico and Canada. IGG recognized as a leading Real Estate Internet marketing and business optimization firm.