E452: Backed By Real Estate: The Build-to-Rent, Note, and Car Wash Investing Principles — with David Van Horn

So Dave.

This is probably number three, the third time I was able to get you on the big show, which I love.

And I remember the old days.

We had a lot of fun together.

You used to have a big conference here on the Mid-Atlantic.

So, Mr. Dave Van Horn, for those of us who have not yet met you yet today on this show, would you mind giving your life story? But make it snappy, my friend.

I was going to say, I can't go that far back.

I'm getting up there, Josh.

I don't know that I can go back that far.

I can't remember what I had for lunch.

I mean, I look at things today as a co-founder and I'm CEO of a private equity real estate firm is really the easiest way to explain that.

And we do a lot in the mortgage space.

We We're actually getting close to a billion in first mortgages nationwide.

We do quite a bit of commercial real estate.

I believe we have about something like 19 assets throughout the U.S., well over, I don't know, 3,000 doors.

But we, yeah, we like some build to rent.

We also do a little bit in the car wash space.

We have a smaller allocation into that, which, you know, we like.

And that's it pretty much.

Other than that, everything's boring, you know.

No,

no, these are good.

These are cool.

And because I know you and because you've been on the show a few times, you're one of those guys that build it one step at a time.

You went from doing the local meetups where maybe you even started hosting those real estate meetups 30, 40 years ago at this point, because you were an investor.