Welcome to passive real estate investing, the show where busy people like you learn how to build substantial passive income while creating wealth for the long term. And now, here's your host, Marco Santorelli.

Hey, everyone, and welcome to passive real estate investing. I'm Melissa Nash, your guest host, jumping in for now. Let's dive in. Welcome to the show,

Robert. I am so excited to have you here today. Well, Melissa, thank you. It is an absolute honor and a

pleasure to be here with you. I have been looking forward to the opportunity for us to talk about

real estate. And of course, we've worked together so synergistically over the past few years, anytime I get to

spend time with you. A lot of time, I feel like I'm the one doing the learning. So thank you so much

for having me on. Absolutely. So, okay, our listeners are like, who is, who is Robert? Who are you?

And one of the things that I like to do, instead of me giving the audience a recap about who you are, if you don't

mind just taking the next couple of minutes and tell our audience who you are and who you serve.

Well, I really appreciate the opportunity to do that. And I think the most important thing to say

here is, you know, first of all, if you're tuning into the podcast here and listening to Melissa routinely, you're doing yourself and your family a tremendous service.

Melissa and her team have forgotten more about real estate that I'll ever know and, you know, the coaching that they provide, the sensitivity they have to investors' investors needs whether you are beginning and want to

get involved in the investing side of it to all the way up to if you're an advanced investor looking

to level up your game and 10 exit i mean Melissa is the person that you want to go to along with

their teammates and it's just an honor to be here as far as who who I am, you know, I'm nobody. I am a kid who grew up in upstate New York to what we call a broke family and a broken home. Money was a five-letter word that was never spoken when I was a kid. Or if it was, it was spoken in anger. And, you know, growing up, I am a very, very typical

guy who did everything that people told me to do that would make me successful. They're like,

Robert, make sure you go to school and get good grades Robert make sure you engage in

athletics and work really hard and excel at them Robert go to college you know

get a good job and I did that I triple majored you know when I was an undergraduate

at Syracuse University Robert get a good safe secure job with benefits and I

did that.

I became a schoolteacher up in New York State there for several years.

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