Hello everyone. Welcome to the Motley Fool's

industry focus financials edition where we talk about companies

with business models that sound made up.

It's Gabby LaPara here and we have Michael Douglas filling in for John Maxfield who is on vacation.

Yeah, and actually for those of you who miss my tendency toward vocalized pauses and ums and

stuttering to some extent on podcasts, look forward to...

Oh yeah, thanks, appreciate that. Look forward to me on health care.

I'll be filling in for Christina Harjus who will be out on vacation. So we'll be bringing the old

dream team of Todd Campbell and Michael Douglas back together for at least one Encore.

So today we're going to talk about the wonderful world of Reitz.

Reit stands for Real Estate Investment Trust.

This type of company specializes in owning or financing income

producing real estate or a bunch of mortgages. This normally means buying a

property like for most reets the ones that we're really going to focus on today. It normally means buying a property like for most Reats the ones that we're really going to

focus on today it normally means buying a property and then leasing it out to a

corporate client right or the government or or even some of your mom and pop shops, you'll see, think shopping centers, malls,

apartment buildings, office buildings, big warehouses and manufacturing facilities.

These are the sorts of things that Reed's tend to own,

including even hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

And we'll be talking about that a little bit further down the line.

Bringing it right back to the health care.

So to qualify as a reets are special companies.

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