Our speaker this month is Amanda Dickinson. Amanda is the owner and managing broker of Living Doors Real Estate. We are a property management company that serves the Lincoln, Seward, and York area in Nebraska. We manage 25 Million in assessed property values which equals out to around 322 rental units.  I grew up in the rental property business. My parents owned rentals and my dad took my brother and I with him during the summers to help work on their rental properties. In high school and during college, I told my parents I wanted nothing to do with real estate and I was going to sell all their properties once I inherited them. As you can see, that thought has changed and now I spend my days managing their rentals and many others.  I started my management company in 2017 while I was working my W2 job. Quit my W2 job in late 2018 to go full time in my business and the growth has kept coming since then. I called my company "Living Doors" because I wanted to encompass our service of providing more to our tenants than just a rental home. I try to help out our tenants in all areas of their living. I learned first hand from my parents that what sets you apart from another landlord is how you treat your tenants. Our relationship with our residents is a high priority of my company.  Last year, I ventured into coaching other landlords on how to self manage their own rental properties based on the procedures and services I have created inside my management company. All mom and pop landlords should be operating as a business and a property manager, because that is what you are!  On top of all of that jazz, I am a wife and mother of 3 kids. My "why" for everything I just listed in this bio is my family.