This is one of his

one of the hub.

Joining us is one of his seeds that he dropped on us attorney and

CEO of the center for heirs property preservation let me welcome to the show for the

first time Josh Walden. Hi.

Hello. Thank you for having us. We're excited to be on.

Listen, last time I think Don was on he talked about this heirs property preservation and I was like what is this?

What is it?

I didn't know existed.

I know that a lot of people, they have property left to them or there's property in the family that they somehow lose for a number of different reasons

So tell us just really quickly Josh what is the purpose of your 501c3 organization?

Certainly, yeah, the primary focus is to protect and preserve family land

and resolve heirs property title and also to

assist families with land retention assist families from losing land

to predatory development, internal dynamics that can lead to land

loss, things ranging from tax sales to forced partition sales, and also we have obviously a public education component

about the spelling some of the myths and talking about a state planning and

succession planning as well as a land utilization component to our work we have a forestry component in this in this state there is a the

forestry industry is a billion plusplus dollar a year industry in South Carolina. A lot of our folks live in rural

South Carolina and very often, whether they have heirs property or not, What we found is African Americans historically been left out of that industry left out of the programs available through USDA, South Carolina, NRCS, EQIP program.

So it's about creating creation of generational wealth on the usage side and the retention

side. So relatively unique organization,

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