Welcome to another episode of Passive Real Estate Investing. I'm your host, Marco Santarelli. And today we have what I'm calling part three of a series I'm doing called the 7 Common Questions Asked of Our Investment Counselors, all six of our investment counselors, talk to investors and clients, and they all ask different questions. Some of them are very similar as, you know, a lot of common questions, but every once in a while we, you know, have stuff that is different. And some people don't even think about that question and they realize, oh yeah, that's a good question. Maybe I should have asked that as well. And so I thought I'd interview or bring on each of my investment counselors or at least four of them to talk about the seven most common questions that they get asked in these seven categories that I've created. And the feedback has been really good at the first two. And so I'm gonna do at least another one or two, and today is number three. So with me today is one of our investment counselors, senior investment counselors, Michael. Michael, welcome to the show.

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I appreciate your invitation.

Yeah, definitely. Well, it's good to have you on this is I think your first episode, is it not?

Yes, it is. And with that lead in, I've some big shoes to fill, so I'm looking forward to it.

Well, I don't know about that, but I'm happy that you're on. So let's have a nice conversation here today. So we, we did a little chatting before we started recording here and you had an interesting twist. We don't need to get deep into it, but if you want to comment on it, you mentioned that most questions are instinctive. I thought that's okay. That's interesting. But you know, you're angle that you might take here today is to answer these common questions from a more intuitive perspective. Do you want to comment on that real quick before I start diving into the seven areas?

Yeah, absolutely. And part of where this came from is more of just been doing this for about five years with the rental properties, been in the financial industry, investing over 25 years. And when you had asked me to come up with the common questions, what I've noticed, a lot of my clients, a lot of my investors is there's really two sets of questions in a general kind of form that they have on all of our calls. You had mentioned the instinctive questions. And those to me are more the, the obvious, the procedural type questions, or like a lot of people refer to the how to questions, what mark, how to put the pieces together. What should I expect things of that nature, but where I've seen where at some of the most important questions are those intuitive questions and what I mean by that?

These are my clients. When I get on the phone, they are asking the question, maybe not specifically in word form, but it's those intuitive questions of why, why do I invest in real estate? Why should I invest in rental real estate? Why should I use turnkey rental teams to manage my properties? Because for me in all of my years of investing asset classes have cert time of the years or certain events, you can look back on the late eighties, early nineties with the advent of the semiconductor and Moore's law and increasing computing power technology was the asset class to be investing in. You could maybe even look to mid 2000 with the advent of the commodities and you had that run with China expanding. And so every asset at class does have an environment that is why we should be investing. So I really would like to kind of take more of the approach to help our clients think of it as more or the why question, answer the why question. And if you agree with the why question, the answer, then all of the instinctive,