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invest with sunrise.com. Enjoy the show. Now, our guest for this week's show is real estate

investment expert and fellow Tampa Bay resident Jeff Copeland. Jeff is the co-founder of Copeland

Morgan LLC, a multifaceted real estate firm to handles everything from direct investments,

brokerage, property management, and also some selective construction services. And so,

you know, given that, Jeff is a, he's a local Tampa resident. I'm really excited to chat with him

about, you know, just all this incredible growth that we've seen here in the Tampa Bay area.

You know, Florida in general, but, you know, Tampa has just been on fire over these last couple of years,

not just during the pandemic, even pre-pandemic.

The pandemic just kind of accelerated things because I think everyone wanted to get the heck

out where they were and they wanted to come to Florida and enjoy the sunshine and the beaches.

But in any event, Tampa was already on a really strong growth trajectory.

And so excited to chat with Jeff today about everything and anything related to Tampa Bay real estate investments. So without further do, guys, I like to welcome Jeff Copeland to the show. Jeff, how. It's funny. We jumped on here and I've done a little bit looking,

you know, where you're from and all that and you're obviously back yard. We're back,

backyard county neighbors, I guess you could say. I'm over in Pinellas County. You're over in the

Hillsborough County area over in Tampa. But, you know, really Tampa Bay makes up three,

three counties. You know, it's funny. If you live in Hillsborough, Pinellas, you'd probably say that it's more realist, or it's, it's more two counties. And,

uh, but if you live up in Pasco, you definitely say that Pascoe, Hillsborough and Pinellas are,

you know, they make up with the Tampa Bay area. But anyway, that's, yeah, our office is actually in St. Pete, we're just right across the bridge from Tampa and northeast St. Pete. Okay, okay. Got it. Well, good deal. We're excited to have you here. And why don't we start here, Jeff, why don't we, you know, pass a mic back to you. Take a few minutes to tell our listeners a little bit more about yourself. I gave you a really brief introduction, but give us a little bit more of your background and ultimately how you found your way into the real estate space. Yeah, I'm always fascinated by

these sort of origin stories myself because everybody tends to come from different walks of life and

land in real estate. We owned another business previously, and I find that's another common thing.

There's a common theme. There's a lot of sort of serial entrepreneurs that ultimately land in real

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