Hello, my friends. And welcome to another episode of Passive Real Estate Investing. I'm your host Marco. Santarelli. It's been a while since I did an investor spotlight. And you know, now that I think about it, I think I'm gonna start doing more of them throughout the year. It's always interesting to hear other people's experiences investing in real estate, whether they're clients of ours or not. There's always experiences, lessons learned. It's interesting to hear about their journey, where they've come from, where they're going. They know sometimes they don't believe it or not, but that's something, you know, we definitely want to help them with today. You know, there have been some great golden nuggets and lessons learned from my interview with one of our current and past clients, guy named Tommy and super nice guy, but he's just having a whole heck of a lot of fun and investing in real estate. And he's looking to continue to build his portfolio while he enjoys his amazing work at Purdue University. So without further ado, let us get to that interview and I hope you enjoy it.

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Well, it's my pleasure to welcome Tommy. So to the show, Tommy is a client of ours. He is a fabulous guy. I extremely friendly. And my entire team here have really enjoyed working with Tommy and helping him invest in real estate. So with that, Tommy, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Marco. And I will just say what a pleasure it's been to be working with you and your team. I reciprocate that sentiment. It's been great so far.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Well, you know what I know we had a brief conversation yesterday about coming on the show and doing an investor spotlight of sorts. And I haven't done one of these in a long time, to be honest with you. And I think I'm gonna start doing some more of them because I actually gain a lot of insight from listening to other people's stories and journeys of where they're coming from, where they're going to, you know, what their investment goals are, how they stumbled across this, all that good stuff. But you know, for our listeners, let's just start off with you. Why don't you take a minute or two, tell us a little bit about you, just like, you know, you had told me in the past and we can kind of go down the journey that way.

Well, first thank you so much for this invitation. I feel honored that you're picking me to be on this investor spotlight. I am just your regular W2 worker. I am at Purdue university and I am a research administrator at Purdue working at the Purdue Institute of infant immunology and infectious disease. And you can imagine how busy I've been in the past couple years since COVID hit. But like most of us we've been in hybrid mode kind of being back and forth at work, but also at home. And in one of those evenings, I was talking to my mother-in-law who asked me to please go watch this program called wealth breakthroughs. And in one of those interviews, I saw you Marco pop up. And I started talking about this turnkey investment opportunity for real estate investing, and I have a rental property here.

And so I had already started in this journey path for, towards trying to get some passive income through rental properties. And so I was compelled to look you up and look up your Norada Real Estate Investment company. And sure enough, I called and I started working with you really was Melissa Nash being a wonderful real estate agent on your team. And we started to explore what would be investments outside of my local area, my local community, which again, I, you know, I was interested to explore and my goodness, it was such a pleasure working with her because she was so knowledgeable, not only about the different markets that are av...