Welcome to the RANCRE show, commercial real estate with no stone left unturned.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the RAN series show. I'm your host, Mike Tarvella. And today, I am with

Amanda Mith, the legend Mike Sauer, CCIMC-I-M. He's got an incredible background,

author of the book Commercial Real Estate Investing, which just came out July 27. So make sure

you get it on Amazon. He's the CEO of the Commercial Investors Group and the host of the

Creative Commercial Real Estate podcast. Mike, welcome to the show. How are you doing today?

Hey, I'm doing pretty fantastic and I'm getting even better. Thanks for having me on the show.

Two mics is trying to take over the world, one commercial property at a time, right?

That's right. Mike squared. Team Mike. The Mike and Mike show today. But yeah, just wanted to touch

base, you know, an extensive career, amazing work, obviously with the CCI and designation.

But an author, I guess, what, you know, with that book, why did you decide to write a book like what was their inspiration for

that book and where does it lead to sure um that's a great question mike uh the the book really

started as me um so i i was flipping houses and i was a contractor for over a decade. And I ended up getting out of the

construction business. And that's when I started doing commercial. And I found that it's a little

different at commercial. There's not all the gurus out there teaching it. Maybe there's some

apartment syndicators and things like that, but like office, warehouse, nobody was really

teaching that stuff. And still isn't. And so I also found

that it's kind of a good old boys network and it was a little bit harder to kind of get advice

out of people, find a mentor and stuff like that. So I actually started my podcast initially

to just start getting secrets out of people and covered all the secrets through the podcast.

And so I was taking these pieces of information I was getting out of the podcast,

and then I was going and applying them.

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