Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

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Thanks for tuning in to the Money Tree podcast, your source for investing and money matters. I'm your host, Andrew Trevillian from Take a SmartStep.com. This week, we're going to look

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and runs Hull Financial Planning. Prior to starting Hull Financial Planning, he was co-founder of

open source connections and sold it in 2012. He also served in the Army as an armor officer

from 1995 and served two tours in

Bosnia with NATO. He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of

Business and a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

All right, Jason, thank you for joining us today.

Hi, thanks for having me, Andrew.

Great.

Well, before we get into kind of all the pros and cons, I would love it if you would just tell

everybody a little bit about yourself and then your history with real estate.

So a little bit about myself, besides being a massive soccer fan and a dog lover, I am a

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