Hello and welcome. My name is Gino Barberto, one of the co-founders of Jake In Geno.

And in this Movers and Shakers, we have Michael Orlando back on the show. Since joining Jake and

Gino in 2019, it's been a while. Michael has closed

multiple apartment JV syndications and built a portfolio of single and small multifamily rentals,

primarily serving Section 8 tenants, and he's only 30 years old. Now, when I said he was 30,

he's like, man, I'm getting old. Bro, you're still a young, young lad.

As a specialized real estate agent in Northeastern Ohio, he helps clients with everything from duplexes to 50 plus units, apartment complexes.

Welcome back to the show, Michael.

How are we doing, brother?

Doing very, very well.

I appreciate you having me back on and looking forward to reconnecting here and hoping I can help some people out.

Michael, when you join, you're only 26 years old. I remember you joining and you're like, I'm leaving my job. I'm going into multifamily. I'm like, I like this guy. I don't know how he's going to do it. He's only 26 because every time I talk to someone who's young, they've always got excuses. I'm too young.

I don't have experience.

Walk me back to that time when you decided multifamily and real estate was your gig and you're sick of the whole startup route and the whole corporate route.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I mean, it definitely still was not an easy decision for sure. You know, how it went for me was basically we found a small apartment deal. I was working full time at a nine to five and always wanted to do my own thing. And basically we ended up buying this, you know, 22 unit building. It was my partner and I's first joint venture type deal. And once we bought it, you know,

I just kind of like a lot of people kind of caught the bug and saw the power of kind of what we

were doing. And, you know, maybe prematurely some would say, just left my job and was like, I just

want to focus on this full time and knew that I could spend a lot more time finding deals and, you know, working on that business if I, if I had some

additional time my day. So it was a bit of a leap of faith, like not, you know, I wouldn't

recommend it to everyone that quickly necessarily, but, you know, I was, I was eager so I couldn't

help myself. So what Michael is saying is if you're

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