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Do security and compliance right. Get started today at Vanta.com. Welcome to multifamily insights. What's going on, your best ever listeners. We are here with today's guest, Michael Oden, and I'm really excited to jump into today's conversation. With that said, Michael, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, John. How are you doing? I'm excellent, man. It's a great day. A little snowy outside, but all good nonetheless. Hey, Michael, why don't you take one minute and give our listeners a little bit about your background? Well, appreciate the opportunity to have a conversation with you, John, and to share with your listeners. Get you that one second background on myself. You go more than one second, man.

You can go a minute. One minute. I got you. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, came to

Metro Atlanta, Chase and Love. That got me into the space of real estate investing as soon as I

moved to Atlanta. When I say as soon as I moved to Atlanta, I mean less than 24 hours. And then so, you know, my career is kind of taking me through some entrepreneurship, ups and downs, did a tax franchise. We kind of talked about a few minutes, you know, sold that successfully. But have always really had a passion for real estate, been focusing on real estate. So got into the space as an investor, buy, sell, fix flip kind of a thing, did some

consulting work with a home investors franchise.

And then over the course of years, I just kind of catapulted my career into doing work

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