Beyond the Vagabond.

<h1> </h1> <p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/beyond-the-vagabond/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:15] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:21] My guest today is Avra Jain, co-founder of the Vagabond Group. With a career path that has taken her from bond trading on Wall Street to developing properties along some of Miami's trendiest streets, Avra has earned a reputation for identifying the next IT neighborhood. Her remake of The Vagabond Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard in the historic MiMo District of Miami changed the course of that neighborhood forever.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:58] Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Avra on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small change.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:23] Hi Avra. Thank you so much for being on my show.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Avra Jain:</strong> [00:01:27] Thanks so much.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:28] Very nice to be here, yeah. I love this quote from your website, which says, "We operate from the perspective as storytellers, allowing history to take center stage and create a genuine sense of place". And I would really love you to tell us a little about what that means.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Avra:</strong> [00:01:46] Well, that really has come from the work that we've done. We, kind of, we got there. We, I'd like to think there were people that actually, sort of, do it and then rather than talk about it. So, I can say that that actually, actually came from the work that we're doing. My team is three architects, one of which was, has a master’s in historic pr