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45. Redemptive Investing & Impact Real Estate — Deyl Kearin on Building a $5.5B Portfolio

What if the most profitable real estate strategy wasn't about squeezing every dollar out of tenants — but investing in them?

Deyl Kearin, a real estate investor and capital raiser for DLP Capital — a $5.5 billion real estate firm — joins Matt Love to break down "redemptive investing": a business model where treating tenants well directly improves returns, not just ethics. Deyl shares his path from flipping houses during the 2008 crash to building a $100M portfolio, stepping away to teach entrepreneurship, and eventually joining DLP's mission-driven approach to workforce housing. They dig into…

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