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Andy, where did this vision of giving away a million dollars or more come from?

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Yeah, well, I mean, it comes from my faith.

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First, it's kind of something that's in me and most of the people that we attract in

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our business have some sort of desire in that way to give.

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You know, none of this belongs to us really as you know, anyways, right?

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We can't take it with us.

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

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So you know, we felt like we've got an unfair advantage in many cases in the markets that

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we've worked in where we can develop, entitle, develop, stabilize and still make a profit

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for our investors.

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But as the team, the actual company that is leading this charge, there's certainly fees

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and profits if we're doing a good job, if we're not, there's less to give.

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But we're hopeful.

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There's just a lot of communities that are underserved.

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Now that doesn't necessarily mean in the traditional way that we see.

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But for instance, for example, we went to one of our projects in the southeast has a

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company which is called apartment life.

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So we owned a lot of apartment buildings.

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And that sole purpose of that company is to create community events for those residents

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that live there.

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

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leave, they go to work, they have their families and they come home, they stay longer when

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they feel part of a community.

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And if we think about any of the best times that we've had in our life, they usually revolve

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around being around other people.

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And so we know that it's not only good for the investment because residents that stay

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longer, 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, but there's also an internal reward for

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doing good.

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We can dress it up, it's for everybody else, but it's also for ourselves.

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It's how we kind of evolve, it's how we live, it's how we can kind of get through our day

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oftentimes is think less about what we want and more about how we can help others.

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So there's a selfish part to it, but that's just the human condition and the way that

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God made us.

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So if He made us that way, selfish, let's try to turn that selfishness into something

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that's a little more lasting and something that we can live with.