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Gina Lito is a real estate developer.
She buys properties, builds houses on themselves, and she's pretty hands off about all the paperwork.
She has her lawyer handle that stuff.
The lawyer comes, I give him the money, and he will close, and he will call me and say, it's closed, it's yours.
So impersonal.
Yeah, it is.
I've never met any of the sellers of the properties we have bought.
Gina and her business partner have bought eight properties in Connecticut, where they live.
And then two years ago, she found her ninth.
Our Realtor came to us and said, there is a piece of land for sale.
It's been in the same family for many years.
Did you go see the property?
So I drove by, but it was just an overgrown lot at the time.
An overgrown lot.
Now, even though she's pretty hands off, every time Gina buys property, she does her due diligence.
Like, is the land flat?
Are there any wetlands?