The biggest risk is an external, uh, situation happening in your life that forces you out of an investment earlier than you wanted to be in it. You know, and that's really the, for most people when they're investing in the stock market, a margin call comes along and that wipes out, you know, 50% of their portfolio. We don't get involved with margin, we don't get involved with leverage. So for us, the biggest, the single biggest risk is a life situation happens.

This may sound funny to a lot of real estate investors out there, but for me, this is a big deal. I purchased a two and a half acre property for $700, and two weeks later I sold it for $2,800 cash. I just tripled my money on a land deal. And I'm a physical therapist. Like I don't have an ounce of business or, or real estate or you know, anything in my body, sales or marketing, I'm not an economist, nothing. And I took this, I took $700 and I turned it into $2,800.

I think of this in a couple of ways. The biggest risk in my land investing business is a, not mailing and not marketing. So if I can be consistent in those two things, I will be successful in this business. And that's something that we, we iterate to our students over and over and over again. Do not stop mailing thats your deal flow. Do not stop marketing. Those are your sales. So the consistency in those things and not being consistent is the biggest risk.

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So I think both from a real estate end and a retail end. The BIGGEST RISK is human capital. 

And you know, when you have an industry. That's been hammered by Headline News, both the retail and the real estate. When someone really bright and smart graduates college, is that the industry they want to get into? And to solve the problems and the challenges that we were just talking about, you need really sharp, talented people.

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Oh, I know that's an easy answer, though, because almost I had some real estate, but the majority of my net worth was in the stock market. And I know and you're it's it's all about hope. It really is. I need Trump tweets. It goes up. Tweets again. It goes down. You know, we can have a company can have the best earnings ever and their stock goes down.

 It makes no sense. And a lot unless you're really good at picking these stocks or whatever, which anyway.

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Scott Krone, principal at CODA Management Group, a real estate design & design firm. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is accessed through the US Department of Energy, but not widely available throughout the country.

people ask me about this in terms of real estate, what's going to happen with the economy, as you know, with political elections, what is it going to go up or down a recession or continue in this?

Based upon the interest rates, I think if the market does begin to slow, you know, the Fed is going to lower the prime. But if I'm looking for us. What we have determined internally is that there's too much political instability here where we are in Illinois.

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