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Tell me about your vision.

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Yeah, so you know I I've been in this real estate game for 25 years and started a

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quite a few iterations

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and I see my vision in this world now is is

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building out

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rental communities in which we're giving a million dollars in a year to

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To the residents in the communities in that area that we're building so we've given quite a bit of money

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But but not nearly that much in a year and that would be my ultimate

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vision and goal

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It takes a large team and a lot of

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Buying from our team and our company, but that's that's ultimately the goal for us

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Wow, that is a very unique vision specifically coming from the real estate side

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I've never seen a lot most realistic people I meet they're focused on

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Profit and cash flow and things like that. So

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Any where did this vision of giving away a million dollars or more come from? Yeah. Well, I mean I

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It comes from my my faith

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First it's it's kind of something that's in me and most of people that we attract in our business

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Have some sort of desire in that way to give

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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

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It's really we're God's steward here. So

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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

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entitle develop

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stabilize and

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Still make a profit for our investors, but as the team

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The actual company that is leading this charge

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There's certainly fees and profits if we're doing a good job if we're not

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There's there's less to give but we're

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We're hopeful

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There's just a lot of communities

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That are underserved now that doesn't necessarily

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Meaning the traditional way that we see but for instance, for example

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We went to

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One of our projects in the southeast has a company which is called apartment life

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so we owned a lot of apartment buildings and that

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sole purpose of that

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Company is to create community events for those residents that live there

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And that's that's when you think about it in the very simple way that these are

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homes

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People leave they go to work. They have their families and they come home

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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

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You know, they usually revolve around being around other people, right? And so

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We know that it's not only good for the environment

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So we know that it's not only good for the investment because people that you know residents to stay longer

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Refer friends have better residents have better kind of self policing

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So we know that there's an ultimate good to it

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but there's also a

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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

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Right. It's how we kind of

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Evolve it's how we live. It's how we can kind of get through our day. Oftentimes is

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Think less about what we want

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And more about how we can help others. So there's a selfish part to it

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But that's just the human condition in the way that God made us

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So if he made us that way selfish, let's try to turn that selfishness

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into something that's a little more lasting and

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Something that we can live with

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Yeah

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That's very well said is a lot of detail to what things you just said

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If I were to ask you going along with what you said

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how did you get started on this path and

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What did you experience while going through those paths

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Well, I started gosh just gotta be 25 years ago I started in various real estate businesses

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I've owned parts of other businesses entrepreneur, you know, whether it was, you know parts of franchises or other startups and

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kind of a common theme and

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getting people energized to build something was

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More about a community and that's kind of where I felt like

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Hey, if I can bring in folks that care about this and I think there's a lot more

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People in your generation, you know, you would like a younger generation that care about that now

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I'm not now. I'm not one of those people that says, you know

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solely for

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You know the good right and and and solely for activism and investments that are just activists or companies that are just activists

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I I they need to they need to be responsible businesses that are making money

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But I think that there is a way to marry those two concepts so that

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The business has a propulsion to it because if it's just for profit

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It doesn't have a propulsion to it if it's just for the the kind of you know

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Activism part of it and the social good wokeness of it, then it doesn't have propulsion to it

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It's got to combine those two elements in order for it to be

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So that was kind of figuring out not just me but with a lot of people that we

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constantly as you know, there's a feedback loop and iterate and

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Something doesn't work and try to replace it. Maybe a little bit better or you chuck it and bring in somebody else

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But that just over time. I think you build into it and sorry. I'm trying

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I know your podcast you'd like to keep them like more concise the answers. So I'm gonna try to

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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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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward

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This is gonna get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well

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We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision for yourself