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In Chapter 1 of 9, real estate developer Brett Goldman shares his experience of going into real estate from varsity jobs in painting houses and improving communities and neighborhoods and how it shaped his career path towards real estate development while attending the University of Michigan.

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Brett Goldman Chapter 1 Transcription 00:00 to 00:13 Erik: Brett, thanks so much for joining us. So take me through your career from the University of Michigan. Your father was a jazz drummer. Where does real estate play into this mix? 00:14 to 01:15 Brett: He was a jazz drummer on the side in his younger years. I think that where I got interested in real estate was from the opposite of what he was doing. He was a financial planner and dealt with the stock market. I just didn’t understand how that worked and I still can’t – it seems too much like gambling. Real estate always felt like something I could bet on and understand. I could reduce my risk by understanding it. I got into it by being a house painter. So when I was in college, I used to come home for the summers. I started my own business painting houses with a friend of mine. I really enjoyed taking down, taking apart the house, taking off the bad paint, and reapplying it to make it look good, make it look better.