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.

Welcome to passive real estate investing.

I'm your host Marco Santorelli,

and this is the show where busy people like you

learn how to build substantial passive income

while creating wealth for the long term.

Today's shows about the importance of reputation.

And I'll tell you why I have chosen this topic for today's episode. I just came back from Miami, Florida for the fourth annual

Single Family Rental Investment Forum, and it was great. I had a lot of fun. I got to network

with a lot of people that I know in the industry I was actually speaking on a panel there on turnkey operators and we all got asked questions of various sorts about the industry and and turnkey providers

specifically and how we operate and and just what is going on but it was

interesting I got asked one question that was, how do you build your reputation

in an environment with some shady operators? And there's just no way that I could have answered this question in the 30 seconds or a minute or two minutes that they gave me to answer this particular question

So I thought it would be a good idea to actually have a podcast episode on the importance of reputation,

especially in an industry like ours where, let's say nine out of ten operators are actually

worthy and ethical and have a decent or good reputation and one or maybe two out of ten don't.

And you as a consumer, you as an investor need to know, you should want to know who has a good reputation and

who doesn't because obviously you don't want to work with somebody who's going to sell

you a lemon or a money pit for a property or tell you one thing and it's something else like you're in a good neighborhood but then you end up finding out well there are a bunch of crack dealers down the street.

This is not a good thing and I have seen this happen and

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