Tell me about your vision.
Yeah, so you know I I've been in this real estate game for 25 years and started a
quite a few iterations
and I see my vision in this world now is is
building out
rental communities in which we're giving a million dollars in a year to
To the residents in the communities in that area that we're building so we've given quite a bit of money
But but not nearly that much in a year and that would be my ultimate
vision and goal
It takes a large team and a lot of
Buying from our team and our company, but that's that's ultimately the goal for us
Wow, that is a very unique vision specifically coming from the real estate side
I've never seen a lot most realistic people I meet they're focused on
Profit and cash flow and things like that. So
Any where did this vision of giving away a million dollars or more come from? Yeah. Well, I mean I
It comes from my my faith
First it's it's kind of something that's in me and most of people that we attract in our business
Have some sort of desire in that way to give
You know, we didn't in another this belongs to us really as you know any any ways, right? We can't take it with us
It's really we're God's steward here. So
You know, we felt like we've got an unfair advantage in many cases in the markets that we've we've worked in where we can develop
entitle develop
stabilize and
Still make a profit for our investors, but as the team
The actual company that is leading this charge
There's certainly fees and profits if we're doing a good job if we're not
There's there's less to give but we're
We're hopeful
There's just a lot of communities
That are underserved now that doesn't necessarily
Meaning the traditional way that we see but for instance, for example
We went to
One of our projects in the southeast has a company which is called apartment life
so we owned a lot of apartment buildings and that
sole purpose of that
Company is to create community events for those residents that live there
And that's that's when you think about it in the very simple way that these are
homes
People leave they go to work. They have their families and they come home
They stay longer when they feel part of a community and if we think about any of the best times that we've had in our life
You know, they usually revolve around being around other people, right? And so
We know that it's not only good for the environment
So we know that it's not only good for the investment because people that you know residents to stay longer
Refer friends have better residents have better kind of self policing
So we know that there's an ultimate good to it
but there's also a
Internal reward for doing good, right? We can we can we can dress it up. It's for everybody else, but it's also for ourselves
Right. It's how we kind of
Evolve it's how we live. It's how we can kind of get through our day. Oftentimes is
Think less about what we want
And more about how we can help others. So there's a selfish part to it
But that's just the human condition in the way that God made us
So if he made us that way selfish, let's try to turn that selfishness
into something that's a little more lasting and
Something that we can live with
Yeah
That's very well said is a lot of detail to what things you just said
If I were to ask you going along with what you said
how did you get started on this path and
What did you experience while going through those paths
Well, I started gosh just gotta be 25 years ago I started in various real estate businesses
I've owned parts of other businesses entrepreneur, you know, whether it was, you know parts of franchises or other startups and
kind of a common theme and
getting people energized to build something was
More about a community and that's kind of where I felt like
Hey, if I can bring in folks that care about this and I think there's a lot more
People in your generation, you know, you would like a younger generation that care about that now
I'm not now. I'm not one of those people that says, you know
solely for
You know the good right and and and solely for activism and investments that are just activists or companies that are just activists
I I they need to they need to be responsible businesses that are making money
But I think that there is a way to marry those two concepts so that
The business has a propulsion to it because if it's just for profit
It doesn't have a propulsion to it if it's just for the the kind of you know
Activism part of it and the social good wokeness of it, then it doesn't have propulsion to it
It's got to combine those two elements in order for it to be
So that was kind of figuring out not just me but with a lot of people that we
constantly as you know, there's a feedback loop and iterate and
Something doesn't work and try to replace it. Maybe a little bit better or you chuck it and bring in somebody else
But that just over time. I think you build into it and sorry. I'm trying
I know your podcast you'd like to keep them like more concise the answers. So I'm gonna try to
Shorten them if I can. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to vision pros live
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