Welcome to the RANCRE show, commercial real estate with no stone left unturned.

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the RANDC series show. I'm your host, Mike Tarvella, and I have a recurring guest slash new co-host for this week. Adam Labar, how are you doing today, Adam?

What is going on, Mike? Thank you very much for the offer to co-host.

Yeah, thank you so much for being on. And I'm super excited for our guest today. Sergio Altamori

of hearth Fire Holdings. They have about 35 million even maybe even more in a couple

months we'll do a follow-up episode just recapping everything primarily focusing on self-storage

but also take advantage of opportunistic trends in real estate so welcome to the

so Sergio how's it going awesome appreciate having me having me, guys. Looking forward to it.

Yeah. So I think given your bio, you worked for a, had a little bit different trend into real estate, working for the Fed.

How did that kind of transpire working from one and evolving into the other and going full time into real estate?

Yeah. So it is it is certainly an interesting path and I won't take all of the credit for being my, the direction being all me.

I was fortunate enough to meet and now marry my wife Corinne who at one point in my career kind of set the stage

for the transition. I did work for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Richmond

for a combined 22 years, all in IT. In those years, I did everything IT related, both locally and Philadelphia and nationally for our national IT group.

Worked on a lot of different projects.

My passion was always technology.

Work from being a file clerk to eventually an executive.

Along the way, 2012 was when I met my now wife, Corinne.

She started working for the Fed as a kind of a side hustle relative to her day job,

which was music and opera.

And that literally wasn't paying the bill.

So she got a different day job and transitioned into IT

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