Michael Severino
San Diego native. Entrepreneur. The communicator behind Rose Investment Group.
A natural operator
Michael is a San Diego native and a young entrepreneur with a modern, outside-the-box mindset. He owns and operates a merchant-services company and his own point-of-sale software — businesses that taught him how money really moves for the people who run things.
His path into real estate grew out of that world: the customer-service skills, the gift for communication, the instinct to think differently about a deal. For Michael, reading people and making deals has always been second nature.
Running a technology company gave him something most don't have — a front-row seat to real-life financial decisions, and a respect for the numbers behind them. Knowledge is power, and he treats it that way for everyone he works with.
Every business owner should own a home. And if they don't — keep renting where you want to live, and buy what you can rent to someone else. Simple cash flow, the dream home, or both.
Always chasing the next place
Michael is happiest when he's in motion — down at the beach body surfing or catching little roller waves on a longboard, out riding trails on the dirt bike, or behind a camera, where he's a genuinely sharp photographer with a real eye for the shot. The travel bug runs deep: Bali, Japan, Prague, and a good music festival whenever one lines up. He collects places and moments the way some people collect things.
Cars are the other constant. Track days when he wants the limit, a slow sunset cruise when he doesn't. It started with muscle cars, trucks, and JDM — the builds that sparked the obsession — and these days he loves having a few exotics in the garage. When winter hits, he trades four wheels for a snowboard. And underneath all of it are the basics he never skips: running, the gym, and a health-and-fitness-first routine that's simply non-negotiable.
Italian, Swedish, and Norwegian by heritage and Californian by heart, he's a family person down to the core — close to the people who raised him and building toward a family of his own one day. Charming, well-traveled, and genuinely easy to root for — the rare guy who's just as at home on a dirt bike or a morning dog walk as he is pushing a new version of his point-of-sale software live or closing escrow on a build — none of it makes him flinch, it's all just part of the day.
What Michael brings
Owner-operator
Merchant services + POS software. He understands a P&L and how a deal actually pencils.
San Diego native
Local knowledge of the neighborhoods, the market, and where value is moving.
Communicator
The real estate jump came from service and talking straight. You'll always know where things stand.
Network on call
A bench of builders, brokers, and capital partners he can pull together fast.
Want to build something together?
The best deals start with a conversation. Tell me what you're thinking.
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