Back to1987 and Don Peebles debut as a real estate tycoon. Peebles, the son of a car mechanic, went to university, but left after a year without completing his degree.
By the age of 27, he was already on his way to building an empire of approximately $5billion in properties all over the US. Leaving university opened the doors to the real estate world for Peebles, who began working as a real estate agent straight away; something that was of interest to him since he was a child, when his mother worked in a property firm to support him after his parents had divorced.