About Paul Burgess

Paul has worked at the intersection of housing and money for decades. He’s a licensed real estate broker in California and Oregon, a former mortgage lender, and a former host of Real Estate Talk on KFBK/KSTE, where he helped listeners navigate everything from first-time home loans to complex property decisions.

As president of the California Association of Residential Lenders, Paul saw firsthand how much of modern life depends on lifetime debt, fragile infrastructure, and the assumption that the grid will always be there.

Today, he runs hands-on resilience trials at the Ranch at River Bend—a working experiment in turning one address into a base that pays its way in food, water, power, and predictable bills. Through Flight Tower, he shares the field notes and tools so others can apply the same logic at their own scale without having to burn their lives down or “go off grid.”