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Blake Rogers, what's going on, man?

Good to have you out on the show with us.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Appreciate it.

I know we've been having a little bit of a conversation off screen here, so to say,

but excited to actually jump in.

So for the listeners out there tuning into this episode,

they really don't

know anything about you. Could you give us just a brief background on yourself and tell us at the

end of the day, what kind of got you into real estate? Yeah, sure. So I guess where I'm at today,

and then I'll go back to what got me in. So I am a co-founder of Steel Peak Properties. We are a private, industrial-focused,

real estate investment firm based in San Diego and started the shop in 2024 with a business

partner. And we specifically focus on buying contractor yards, industrial outdoor

storage. So smaller industrial properties with yard space across different markets all over the

western U.S. And so that's what we're doing today. We're a small shop, but we're scaling. And we, yeah, so the way I got

into real estate originally, I was a commercial real estate broker. So I did about nine or 10 years

as a broker, kind of fell into that, got a little bit lucky through a buddy that recommended I

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