One room at a time.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/one-room-at-a-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:09] Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Atticus LeBlanc, founder of PadSplit, a technology platform dedicated to affordable housing. Atticus has been an affordable housing advocate and real estate investor for over a decade now, his company owning and managing over 550 affordable residential units. But he founded PadSplit with a much bigger goal in mind. He wants to dramatically change how we address affordable housing by using every space that is underused, in our own house or in a shared home. He doesn't care how. Every room is a safe, clean home for someone who really needs it. You'll want to hear more. Be sure to go to EvePicker.com to find out more about Atticus 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> [00:01:26] Hello, Atticus. Thank you so much for joining me today.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Atticus LeBlanc:</strong> [00:01:30] Absolutely. Pleasure to be here, Eve. Thank you for the opportunity.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:33] Yeah, I'm really looking forward to that conversation. Because you're doing something pretty unusual. You started a company called PadSplit, and I'm wondering why you started it.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Atticus:</strong> [00:01:45] Sure. Yeah. So I think ever since I was a kid, I enjoyed solving problems. And maybe charging at windmills bigger than, bigger than where appropriate at any given time. And this has just been a really big windmill. I've been in in real estate my entire career here in the Atlanta area, going on 18 years now. And have b