President
Bill Leon

For the past 18 years Bill Leon has been one of two principals at WJL Financial Group in Plantation. The other is his wife, Jan. Together the two real estate investors buy and sell 90 to 100 homes a year, and traveled on a circuit across the United States teaching a real estate investing course called Millionaire Masters.

WJL are the owners of The Broward Real Estate Investment Association. For WJL, Bill’s responsibilities include looking at properties, negotiating purchase prices with homeowners and selling the properties. For The Broward Real Estate Investment Association, he and his wife maintain the membership database and coordinate activities beyond the monthly meetings.

“What I think is so neat is that I work with my wife who is my best friend and partner,” Bill said. “I don’t think I could find a better partner."

Prior to starting WJL Financial Group, Bill and Jan started WJL Products, a company that built and distributed computers and peripheral parts, but lost the company to a partner who turned out to be unscrupulous. With the company bankrupt, they rebounded by moving into real estate, and set up their own company after their extensive experience teaching at the millionaires boot camp.

With a different partner, he and Jan also ran Keys Residential Properties, a limited liability corporation that for three and a half years has provided housing for recovering drug addicts in Fort Lauderdale. They have since sold the company and the real estate.

“When addicts come out of a treatment center they need a safe haven.” Bill said. “We provided immaculate housing for them, we also had them participate in two AA meetings and two house meetings per week, plus help them get a job and checking accounts. It was a chance for them to get their lives back together.”

A graduate of Shimer College in Chicago, Bill is a 25-year baseball coach whose Broward All-Stars (age 16 to 18) won the national championship and Big League World Series in 1997. In 1995 his team won the national championship. Bill & Jan have been season-ticket holders for the Florida Marlins since their inaugural season in 1993.