inspiring interviews with today's top landlords this is the rental income podcast and now dan lane my guest on the podcast

today has a great story he's been buying beat up rundown properties in a really depressed part of

main he's been fixing the properties up, making him nice,

and he's attracting really good tenants that are really loyal,

and it's making his life a lot easier because he's got long-term tenants.

He doesn't have many maintenance problems, and he's really got a great business.

So let's take a real quick break.

We'll come back in 30 seconds and we'll meet

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That's N-O-R-A-D-A real estate.com slash guide jay welcome to the podcast why don't we start with

you telling us a little bit about yourself and how you first got started in real estate yeah sure but

well first i like to say uh thanks having me on i'm a big fan of the podcast and we'll be going forward.

Awesome. I appreciate it.

Sure. So, yeah, no, I was actually working in the defense industry for Bath Ironworks and

management and just reached the point that I realized that's not what I wanted to do.

We already had a couple of buildings in Portland, Maine, that we'd bought

while I was working. And I resigned my position and came to Lewis and Maine and started just buying

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