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best real estate and best advice ever show. I'm your host Joe Cornwall and today I'm

joined by Ben Cat Avisarala.

He is a previous guest. It's been about two years since he's been on the show.

He's the CEO of striker properties. They are doing real estate development over 1,700 units in development right now.

He was previously a buy and hold investor who has sold most of his portfolio, so we're going to

talk about all of that, including the new developments and more.

Vincat thank you so much for joining us and returning to the show.

Thanks for having me, Joe.

So you said it's been about two years since you've been on the show, so why don't we just start with that?

What has changed in your business

what has your focus been the last two years well for one thing interest rates went up

quite a bit so that's a big monkey wrench in plants, makes things so much difficult, the cost of

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