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Inspiring interviews with today's top landlords.

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And now, Dan Lay.

I love hearing stories from people that are just crushing it with their rental properties.

I personally find it so inspiring and so motivating to hear these stories every week.

But every once in a while, I think it's important to tell the other side of the

story and talk to somebody that maybe made some bad decisions or had some bad things

happened to them and ended up losing their rental properties. Because, I mean, to be honest,

there are a ton of people that are making a lot of money in real estate, but there's probably

just as many people that are losing money in real estate, but there's probably just as

many people that are losing money in real estate. So I'd like to welcome to the show, Ben Ben,

Ben, and hear his story. Hey, Ben, welcome to the show. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, so what I'd

like to do is just kind of talk through how you built your portfolio and see if we can maybe figure out, like,

maybe where you went wrong with things or if there's anything that people could avoid

so that they don't end up going through what you've had to go through.

Absolutely.

Why don't we start at the very beginning?

What got you first interested in real estate? Actually, going way back. I actually got interested in real estate, probably like most

people. I saw, I was 18 or 19 years old, and I think it was Dave Del Dotto, I think was a guy's name,

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