Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, member CRE entrepreneur shares his path from undergrad to working as a brokerage analyst.

He covers his shift over to the portfolio management side of the business, why he enjoys

real estate, how much

his pay has gone up since he graduated four years ago, and what's in store for him next. Also,

listen to hear what he's investing in now and who he feels is a good fit for real estate finance

careers. Enjoy.

All right. C.R.E. Entrepreneur. Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me on.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a little background about where you come from.

Sure. So I'm from Pennsylvania. I live near the Philadelphia area just outside the city.

And that's kind of where I'm coming from location-wise.

And then, yeah, just a little bit of summary of your experience?

Sure. So out of undergrad, I knew that I wanted to work in real estate, real estate finance.

I'd had some experiences during undergrad working as property manager and subcontractor to be

involved in real estate and quickly realized that that was two parts of real estate I did not

want to be involved in. What did it be more involved in the real estate finance side?

From there, I was in a kind of a secondary market, not a lot of developers in my area that would necessitate

hiring a full-time analyst. So they were really only two in my county where I lived. One did

hotels, one did self-storage. I knew the guy with hotels growing up,

but he wasn't hiring, he was looking at bringing on an analyst, but the self-storage guy was.

So from there, that's how I got into the niche of self-storage.

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