Tarek El Moussa is the star of HGTV hit series Flip or Flop, now in its seventh season. Tarek received his real estate license when he was 21 years old and quickly made a name for himself in Orange County, California. At the height of the housing boom, he was selling multi-million dollar mansions like hotcakes, but when the housing bubble burst, he carved out a new niche for himself in the world of real estate: flipping distressed properties.