Welcome. This is the Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing Podcast.

This is where you'll learn strategies to help you achieve lifetime financial freedom through real estate investment.

Your host, Rod Cleef, has owned over 2,000 homes in apartments.

And he brings experts in all aspects of real estate investment and management onto the show.

Now, here's your host, Rod Cleef.

Welcome to another edition of How to Be a Lifetime Cash Flow through Real Estate Investing.

I'm Rod Cleef and I am thrilled that you're here.

And I know you're going to enjoy the gentleman we're interviewing today.

He's got great energy and his name is Terry Painter.

And he's the author of the Encyclopedia of Commercial Real Estate Advice, which I understand is an awesome book.

And he's also the founder of the apartment Loan Store, which ties right into what we do here on this show, which is by apartments.

So I want to welcome you to the show, my friend. Welcome.

Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here, Rod.

No, you're absolutely. So maybe you could talk just a little bit about, well, first of all, how'd you get into the business?

Because you've got kind of an illustrious career. So why don't you take a minute and talk about that.

And then we'll drill down on some of the nuances of what you're doing now.

Sure. I actually, in 1995, 96, I was, I had a chain of French bakeries and restaurants.

And they weren't shopping malls and, but what happened, what I really loved about it was actually building a new one.

And just I love the development of it, training the staff and so on.

What happened is that it was quite expensive.

And my wife and my banker wanted me to slow down on new, just on opening up new restaurants.

And so anyway, so my banker, who is also one of my best friends, you know, I asked him one day, how can I do what you do because you work on a new deal every day.

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