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Dennis Shapiro.

What's up, man?

Glad to have you out on the show with this today.

Joshua, thanks so much for having me.

It's awesome.

We've got some pretty exciting things to discuss today

and before we jump into some of those details for all

the listeners out there hearing about you for the first time give us a brief background on yourself

and tell us at the end of the day what got you in the real estate?

Yeah, it was a journey that took about two decades.

I started with actually probably longer at this point, I like age myself of myself, but I started get I started with a copy of rich that poor dad from my older brother when I was 14 years old hated the book at the time. I was very cynical. But I knew I just had to start investing from, you know, that was the one core takeaway I got from the book. Kind of got into like mutual funds at that time. I actually was old enough to remember actually paying for trades and I went from mutual funds then I kind of got to the point where I was like you know what I think I could probably do this better so I dove into individual stock picking started reading about like Warren Buffett,

Peter Lynch, all of that, went to college

with the sole purpose of becoming,

you know, the next Warren Buffett,

went right into college during the global financial crisis, pivoted there, kept going to school, got my MBA, got recruited by the government.

When I started working for the government, got the first paycheck, was like, you know what, not only are they my employers, they're also my business partners with the amounts of taxes they got they were taken out. So that kind of got me into the rabbit hole. Well, how do I how do I pay less taxes legally? I did the stupidest thing you can imagine. I called my oldest brother who had a couple of rentals and I was like, well, you know, I need a tax deduction, which asset would you like to sell? And he gave me like his biggest problem. And I bought it, managed it myself, but I realized I really didn't want to do more of this on a lower scale.

That kind of got me where I pivoted into the securities world and from there I did my first LP deal and then four or five years later is of doing

LP deals by myself. I connected with two other individuals doing LP deals and we kind of

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