This is Movers and Shakers, where we interview the upcoming generation of Make It Happen

Multifamily Investors to share their story.

Welcome to the Movers and Shakers podcast.

My name is Gino Barbaro, co-founder of Jake and Gino, multifamily investor, educator, father,

mentor, and I'm joined by my co-host, my brosoph, Josh Ruzon, the community

director here at Jake and Gino. Josh, how you doing, bro?

Gino, super excited for today. You know, I definitely, we need you to stay safe with the storm

rapidly approaching Florida. But at the same time, we got a lot of good things happening

at the Jake and Gino community. I'm very excited.

And actually, less than three weeks, we have a money mixer in Nashville.

Gino, tell the folks a little bit about what money mixers are and what our community will be getting into.

Well, you know, the evolution of the money mixer was let's just get together.

Let's get the community together, all the students, and let's get on a bus.

Let's go look at a couple of properties.

And what I found over the last couple of years, to get into multifamily, it's like getting

into a business and it's like, you need to join a community.

You need to join some place where there's a like-minded investors with you.

So the money mixer was just an evolution of getting students together who are in the

Jake and Gino community, going out touring a couple

properties. So you're networking with the students. You're learning about the multifamily properties.

You're able to ask the property management company's questions. You're able to see what a two-bedroom

looks like, how you turn the two-bedroom. You're able to talk about physical occupancy

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