Hello, Neighbor.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/hello-neighbor/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:11] Hi there, thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Max Levine, founder of NICO. A few years ago, Max noticed a very big gap between traditional home ownership and renting, and he wondered what might fall in between. At the same time, he wanted to explore how to create localized wealth and neighborhood equity, and he found the solution to his quest at his own back door. In Echo Park, the neighborhood he lives in, a highly diverse neighborhood, incomes average forty thousand dollars, yet the average home sells for nine hundred thousand. Max took a huge leap in order to bridge that gap by creating NICO, a neighborhood investment company, or REIT through NICO locals can literally invest in the place that they live in by buying shares of local properties owned by NICO. But Max doesn't want to stop there. Listen in to hear more. And be sure to go to EvePicker.com to read the show notes page for this episode. You can sign up for my newsletter so you can get access to 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> [00:01:50] Hello, Max, thanks so much for joining me today.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Max Levine:</strong> [00:01:53] Yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here with you.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:57] So, I'm really fascinated to hear, because like me you've plunged into the fintech crowdfunding world to solve a problem. And I think you're NICO is sort of a version of Small Change, although a little bit different is we're going to discover. So, it's really nice to interview someone in the same industry.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Max:</strong> [00:02:15] Absolutely. Great t