About Me

David Velasquez has lived in Alaska his entire life, spending his formative years working on a farm in the Mat-su valley raising Arctic Galloway beef cattle. He worked as a laborer for Northern Construction building custom homes in Anchorage and surrounding areas. During high school David went to work as a plumbing apprentice for Trans Alaska Mechanical becoming familiar with all sides of residential and commercial mechanical contracting. After graduating high school, David attended Mustang Air Flight School and became an FAA certified private pilot. He started a manufacturing company focused on aircraft upholstery and accessory manufacturing called Alaska Aircraft Interiors. David owned and operated this business from a hanger located at the busiest floatplane base in the world, Anchorage’s Lake Hood and was the largest manufacturer of small and mid sized aircraft upholstery and interior products in Alaska. In 2009, After nearly a decade, he sold Alaska Aircraft Interiors and built an income property portfolio focused on multi-family cash flow and value-add properties in Anchorage and the Mat-su Valley. Self managing and executing full remodels on portfolio owned properties, David has spent his time managing, budgeting, and timing construction efforts on multi family building projects. During the past 10 years, the portfolio has achieved between 12.2% and 30.8% value increases on individual properties with an average of 18.9% across all holdings. David co-founded Figure 9 LLC in 2014 with Joe Saunders as a real estate development and investment company. Figure 9 LLC focuses on leveraging the real estate investment and construction backgrounds of the founders to develop, acquire, and manage real estate assets for optimum returns. David is a licensed Alaska Real Estate Professional.