My Journey
How did I get here?
2005
2005
I left home in Uzbekistan with just $200 in my pocket and flew to the U.S. under the assumption that I would land a job as a hotel front desk agent/receptionist. Instead, I was forced to work in slave-like conditions with no pay doing housekeeping/cleaning and various low level maintenance jobs in the hotel.
2006
2006
Purchased my very first used car, a beat up 1998 Ford Escort, and signed my first 1-bedroom apartment lease.
2009
2009
After years of grinding at multiple odd jobs 18 hours, 7 days a week, I founded my first entrepreneurial venture: Interworld Cleaning.
2012
2012
Purchased my very first house and co-founded Fix Contractors – a home remodeling company. In the same year, my first daughter Samina was born.
2015
2016
My daughter, Amina, was born, and a year after I bought my first investment property.
2017
2017
Co-founded a real estate investment firm called PRUZ Investments (Puerto Rico & Uzbekistan) with a fellow immigrant from Puerto Rico.
2018
2018
Purchased my first mixed-use property and stepped into the commercial property management arena.
2020
2020
Began writing my first book, The Immigrant’s Companion: Making Your American Dream a Reality.
2021
2021
Achieved 10 rental doors in Real Estate portfolio.
2023
2023
Received SBA’s 2023 Maryland Minority Owned Small Business of the Year award, co-founded KleenUp – a digital marketplace aiming to serve the $97.6bn US cleaning industry, finished writing The Immigrant’s Companion: Making Your American Dream a Reality in English and Spanish, and my third-child, Rey-Abror, was born.
