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Kevin Bup, man, excited to have you out on the show of this today. Yeah, Josh, thanks for having me.

I'm excited to be here. Now we had to reschedule a couple of times, but we finally made it.

So life happens. I know there is a ton of different things you guys have done. You've been in

a business for over 25 years, but for all those listening out there who've never heard about you before, can you just take a second to give us a brief background on your show and then tell us at the end of the day, what even got you into real estate? Yeah. Yeah, sure things. Kevin Bup, CEO of Sunrise Capital Investors. We focus in manufactured housing and parking

assets, so parking garage is parking lots. But backing up to the age of 19, I'm 45 today.

But age of 19, I was introduced to real estate. I always joke and say it found me. I did not find

it, but ultimately I was introduced to it by a gentleman by the name David, who ultimately became

my mentor. He was a local real estate investor. Let me dating my girlfriend's mom. So very random happenstance of how I got

connected to this business, but surely it was a life-changing point in my life. It was bartending,

going to community college, trying to wrap my arms around something of what I wanted to do when

I grew up and real estate became it. So I bought my first

property at the age of 20, you know, in my early to mid-20s, quickly amassed a portfolio of single

family rental properties, 222 to be exact and did that over a period of years, got introduced

to commercial real estate along that period of time as well and started dabbling in different

properties. You know, owned pretty much everything. I bought some retail strip centers. I bought some

office buildings, bought some industrial, self-storage, medical office building. And then, you know,

fast forward to really where we have focused now for the last decade plus. In 2012,

bought my first mobile home park and have been buying those ever since. We own in 18 different states

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