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Ben Weprin

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“Is it the food? Is it the service? He goes, nope. He's like the most important thing at a restaurant is who's sitting across the table from you. And I'll never forget that. It was the most like impactful, powerful lesson because. Long story short, we end up buying that hotel. I make a deal with Frank literally like on a napkin that we wrote at Makaluso's in Miami Beach for him to be the operator. He's committed, we spend six months working on it on the plans. We went to Miami Beach Historic. I had these investors. I didn't know anything about them. I found them in Miami. They were based there. They understood the hotel.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'd gone there, just blew my mind. I'm like, I'm going to get these guys to come in. Understanding kind of like the Ian Schraeger model where, you know, or Barry Stern, like where the food and beverage is very integral to the asset and helps tell the story. I was like, yeah. Rails is a story. It matches iconic, historic Hard to get into unique, distinctive. And so I met the guys from Rayos, Frank Sr. and Jr. fly down. And Frank Sr. is a legend, right? He is a real restaurant icon. He's just a character straight out of Central. He came down, he had like gold. And I loved Frank. And I remember I said, Frank, what's the most important thing, you know, at a restaurant? He's like.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, I should buy this hotel. Even though I had to act even though I didn't have the money, the capability, but I knew that I had to act. I knew that it was an opportunity. And I love the real estate and the asset. And so I said, yeah, I'll do it. Wow. Put a contract on the Raleigh. Amazing hotel. That's like 106 rooms in this spectacular space. I had this idea that I was going to bring in Rayos in the back.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And then also had worked with Larry on a hotel that he owned in Miami Beach, just what I was working from before. I had met the group that owns the hotel across the street because we're working a beach access deal. It's a hotel called the Raleigh. Iconic, you know, Esther Williams pool, romantic, seagrade tree, like just unbelievable asset. And the guy who owned it, the asset manager, I called him to tell him I was starting off, you know, starting my own company and just wanted to have coffee. And he said to me, he said, you know, the Raleigh is, it's going to be for sale. And I'm like, holy cow. Like, I'm going to, like, this is an amazing opportunity. And, you know, and when you're thinking about it during a recession and when the market is just completely stagnant, I didn't have any baggage. Like I was sitting there like ready to go, right? So many interesting businesses and opportunities start in a recession. And I was like, okay.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We had our Christmas card that had gone out that December that my wife and I sent said, you know, wishing everybody a happy and healthy year and in an adventurous journey. And I didn't know the name of my company. We were putting together LLC to buy the bear's interest. And my Christmas car was, what's the name? And I didn't even thought about it. Well, it's adventurous journeys. And that's how we started it.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's where I really learned what made a unique, distinctive, one-of-a-kind asset, this sort of, you know, heirloom type property that would fit within that collection.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I could help them grow, right? I mean, it was a good value proposition for them, right? I was a non-paid shareholder that was going to basically outsourcing their acquisitions and their development. And I was on my own dollar accord going to go run around and chase deals on their behalf.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was 15 people. I was short couple million dollars at the end, and Larry decided to roll his equity into that. And back me, which was a great vote of confidence in when I was talking to other people. It's Larry staying in. He believes in it. He just giving me my shot.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very successful, incredibly close. My mom's best friend I walked him through it. I was going to do, and this was an operating business, and I was going to grow it through acquisitions and development. And I was going to be relentless and you can't beat someone who doesn't give up. And I will kill myself before this is not successful because it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Turns out there's once-in-a-lifetime opportunities all the time if you put yourself in that position, but we did it and we closed.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I was asking anyone or everyone that I thought would be interested. And I was, remember, my largest investor was his was dermatologist in Dayton, Ohio.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was going to do the work, and like I owned a minority interest in the brand, so they're betting on somebody who owns a minority interest, no control, but was going to go to try to work hand in hand with this company to try to help them grow it during the recession.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I went to people that understood the product. I went to people that understood the brand. I went to people that they could get behind something and just like, I had to like clearly articulate my vision. But, you know, didn't charge them anything to do it.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, I want to be like you, right? Like, I'm not, you know, you're aspirational. You're a hero to mine. I collect your baseball card. Like, I put your poster on. Like, I want to be like you when I grew up. This is my opportunity. He's like, well, you know, it's a tough time right now. It's 08, right? It's, you know, Q4. Nob”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think it was a good, fair deal for him. It wasn't astronomical And so came to him. And I remember sitting down, there's this Daniel Burnham quote in his office, no small plans Sure, you know that quote, and I sat there and I was super nervous, and I read that. I was like, no small plans, no small plans. I was like, I'd like to buy you out of embarrassment. She's like, huh? He's like, where are you going to get the money? I was like, I don't know, but I'm going to figure it out. You know, I remember he said, well, why do you want to do this? And I remember telling him, I was like, Larry, what would you do?”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, 1,000%. So I went into his office the next day or two days later, and I sat down, I said, Larry. You're going to sell, I'd like to buy it.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and like, you know, you know, in a recession, and when was going on, and luxury was kind of a four-letter word at that point. And so, yeah. I was completely crestfallen when he said he was going to sell it because I love the brand. I love the people. I love the destination. I love the idea of what that company could become. And I also think there's a huge opportunity for this brand in a recession to actually acquire assets or to build a portfolio of operational because these smaller hotels, if they're in trouble, they could use distribution, revenue management, everything that a bear's could bring to a table. And so I went home and told my wife like Larry's going to sell a bearish. She was like We got to figure it out. I was like, yeah, you're right. We do. I've been thinking that. Like, let's go. Let's buy it from them.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I got on a plane. I was like, I'm going to go meet all these owners just like I had done with apartments on the west side of Chicago. I'm going to go out here and meet these owners of these assets and see if there's an opportunity to operate or acquire the hotels on a bear's behalf. And I loved it. And I was, you know, really learning on the fly, having incredible experience with Larry. And then... Q408 hits And Lehman announces, and the world falls completely off a cliff. My wife is pregnant with our first child. And one day I was in his office and just kind of going through the reps. And he goes, you know, I think I'm going to sell a bearish or interest in the company.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, exactly. One day he called me and he was like, hey, I'm going to buy a hotel in Cabo St. Lucas, Mexico Will you go check it out? I was, you know, ears on the ground, but I did not know what I was doing, and I certainly never stayed or seen a hotel like this. And I'm sitting there, and they walk over, and he said, Mr. Gomez will be there in 10 minutes, and I'm sitting and I walk over to the side of the hotel, and it's got this infinity pool, the sea of Cortez, rocks, like the restaurant with the waves crashing, literally whales jumping. It was like Wizard of Oz stuff, like black and white. It became color. And I'm like, this is amazing. The hospitality, the”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. I mean, I had no idea what I was doing. Complete imposter syndrome every single day. I thought someone was going to tap me on the shoulder and be like, it's time to go back to Dayton. Yeah, go back to Dayton. You're fired. And I'm like, you know, and I was so grateful for the opportunity I didn't want to disappoint him or let him down. And he was doing incredibly complex transactions in places all over the country and world. And you were like 20.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was interesting. I was so out of my comfort zone when I first got there and I was so out of my comfort zone that I couldn't go back.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that is, you know, I learned so much from him in terms of if you're a great business person, you can apply that to a lot of different categories. Levy restaurants was his core business, but he had been doing real estate development and acquisitions. And Larry actually had started as a broker too, which I thought was a great synergy. And so he built one Magmile. He built a ton of really great projects in Chicago.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Own hometown, and so I finally, long story short, somebody calls me and is like, I've got tickets. So I race back at there, come back, take her to the show. The whole time I'm thinking about, you know, I'm going to tell her I love her. I want to move to Chicago. I'm not really sure. So we go back after the show. We drive. I'm going to drop her to car. I tell her to give her this whole soliloquy about how I'm in love with her and how we should date and move to Chicago and this whole thing. And she's like, nope, that's not going to happen. I don't think that's a good idea. So I'm like, you know, crestfallen. And kind of made the decision then that I was going to go back to Chicago and work for Larry. And my wife, like, you know, not at the time, two weeks later was like, all right, let's get this shot. So we got married.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Met in Knoxville, so we went to college together, and we were like best friends. So actually, she's a big part of the story, but I was friends with her and decided I was going to tell her that we were in love, that I was in love with her, like I was going to tell her one night. And I tried to get tickets to go to the Academy of Country Music Wars. I couldn't get them. And I was going to tell her that night, like, take her to the show, come back and then tell her, like, I'm in love with you. I think we should date. And so All day I was trying to get these tickets. And I was thinking I had actually been given a job offer right before this from Larry Levy, whose son was a close friend of mine while I was in Chicago. And Larry is like the most dialed, connected, creative entrepreneur I'd ever met in my entire life. And I'm like in love with this girl and she doesn't know it. And I try to get her tickets. And I'm thinking about Larry. I was like, I want to be like Larry. I can't even get a ticket to go to a country music show.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We kept them. We kept them until, I don't know, maybe 2015, somebody in Nashville had kind of taken off and somebody came and said they wanted to build a hotel on that site. And so we decided to sell it to them. And that's kind of what was my first forte into sort of development or being a landlord. And I was like totally happy in Nashville. And my wife and I.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“208 and 210. 208 had Lonnie's, which was this incredible karaoke place, and 210 had fiddle and steel, which is an iconic guitar bar, and started cash flowing from those. And you do some of these things. I was just drawn to it. I like the historic architecture and the story part of it.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The numbers look really good on paper. And I had no idea what I was doing. Like, I mean, when I say no idea, I mean, it was absolutely like a dog catching a car. And I was like, all right, I got these tires. What am I supposed to bite them? I don't really know. Started reading about it, talking to other developers and meeting all these people in the space. Came up with this plan, priced it out, and it looked pretty good on paper. We pre-sold some condos. I think we sold like half of them pretty quickly. And then the price of steel went up like four times. And I was like, oh shit, this doesn't work anymore. And so we had to refund the money from the deposits for the people that bought the condos and just kept the cash flow from the cleaners and the strip club and said, okay, well, this retail thing is interesting because we were actually doing pretty well. We were making money on the building. We end up buying the two buildings next door.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was going to figure it out. I was going to pre sell the condos, right? And then have that money to go and finance the construction.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love the building. I love the architecture. I love the story. It was an old hotel. So the ground floor was the cleaner, so it had income there. The top floor was vacant, had really great sort of, you know, just bones. And our ground floor tenant was a strip club called brass stables.”
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“So we each put in a little bit. And then a friend of mine from Chicago and his dad that I had known put in some money. We got the seller to.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we bought a building. It was 206 Fourth Avenue. There was five stories above it. It was super narrow, skinny building. I think we bought it for like $600,000, right?”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so while you're in that two year period in Nashville working on selling commercial real estate, I think at a certain point you managed, you and William managed to buy a building and renovate it.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything was like pushing the ball up the hill. And I saw people that were successful in that space in Chicago or elsewhere. I was like, you just got to do the work and put in the time. And like I had to make it work. I still feel like that. Like you just feel like you have to succeed. And so all the most successful people that I've read about or met, it's like, who can, you know, eat the most shit and just keep going forward?”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This doesn't work. I had this one deal that was in contract. I didn't know it was going to close. It doesn't close. I'm out of here. And, you know, we made, we ended up closing the deal within, you know, east of the airport in Nashville. And I made like $8,000 and stayed. And then, you know, we sort of got some momentum and built some trust. And it was a great experience.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was, you know, I remember we've gone a long time without first when we got there and it was really slow. We were going all around Middle Tennessee, Memphis, Nashville, East Tennessee, Knoxville, trying to drum up these listings so we could sell it and make a commission. I remember we had gone, I don't know, four or five months, six months without a dollar when we got there. And I was down like, I remember I had like, you know, eight quarters and I went like trying to figure out what I was going to do for dinner and I went to rallies and got two for two big Bufords and was sitting there like.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we would talk to sellers and convince them to sell, or if they were interested in selling and say, you know, if you think this is worth $3 million, what if we got you four? Or if you think it's worth five, we can get you six. Would you pay a commission if that happened? We'd have all these pocket listings and we would just hustle.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You were right. They had zero overhead. They get a percentage of the commissions that you make. I mean, we didn't make anything for a while, but we were. Know we were determined to figure it out”
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“But just to be clear, I mean, this is a real estate. Firm, right? And I mean, this is not a great analogy, but it's a little bit like Avon, right? Where you are a representative and then your independent contractor and then you get a commission. So it sounds like they didn't really care where you were as long as you were.”
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“Yeah, my buddy from college, William, he had sold a deal in Nashville. He was working at the same company in Atlanta and said, you know, Nashville could be an interesting opportunity. And so went to the guy that I was working for, great guy. I said, you know, I'd like to move to Nashville and open an office. He starts cracking up. He's like, you're out of your mind. It's a terrible idea. You've got good trajectory here, so forth and so on. But, you know, I was always wanted to do my own thing. I didn't even know what that was, but I always wanted to do my own thing. And so William and I moved to Nashville, still working for Marcus Milichap. They didn't even know they had an office there, right? Like we just.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your dad, I guess, when you were in high school, this is when he kind of started getting involved in real estate as a broker. I guess that you had that model in mind because out of college you decided to become a broker as well. And you got a job at the real estate firm, Marcus Amilich. It's a national firm. And I guess you worked in Chicago, and they're a Chicago office for a few years and did pretty well there. And then you wound up moving back to Tennessee, right?”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. I always thought I was going to do something bigger than what I was doing at that time. And so I was ready to get out of school. I was ready to get out of high school. I was ready to get out of college. I was ready to get into the workforce and see what was possible.”
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“Nice. Good use of that money. And Michael Jordan, I mean, amazing. I guess later on, of course, when it came time for you to go to college, you went to Tennessee, actually, to the University of Tennessee and Knoxville that you majored in business. And from what I gather, you weren't necessarily motivated by making good grades or achieving academically. It seems like you want it to be working on something, like something that could maybe turn into a business.”
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“It was like a four day camp, and I went up to him and introduced myself. And I've never been shy in that regard and went up to him. And I was like, you know, I'm your biggest fan. And it's really funny. So I have like, you know, we took a picture with the team, like your team with Michael Jordan. And my cousin was with me there. And it was, I remember because it was $400 and I paid for it from my mitzvah savings.”
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“Or just average students? I was average. I didn't really care. I was always kind of Excited to get out of school and start working. And when I was a job my first day that I turned 16, I worked at a shoe store just for feet where your 13th pair is free. And, you know, love that, right? Love the hustle and the sales and the conversations with different people. And, you know, I love that culture. I loved Nike and Michael Jordan and, you know, the whole thing was super inspiring. But I was like I mean, I took the money from my bar mitzvah and went to Michael Jordan's basketball camp.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was a real hustler, like super gritty, and you know, like, you know, putting together kind of wild, like trading a mobile home park for, you know, for an apartment complex in Middletown or Sydney or these Kashak small Ohio towns, you know, sort of southwest Ohio. And then he got into commercial brokerage. That's actually how I was introduced into that space. He went through a lot. He really, you know, my dad was a great inspiration and a really hard worker and got divorced, had cancer, you know, survived it. And all kind of at the same time. So I saw and I lived with them, and we were like, you know, going to big lots to buy groceries. We didn't know what we were doing. We had no idea how to do anything. And we're just kind of, you know, figuring it out along the way, which has been a good metaphor for the rest of my life.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, to be clear, Ben didn't exactly stumble into a successful hotel chain. Before starting And along the way, he learned some pretty hard lessons about the business. Ben was raised in Dayton, Ohio. His parents divorced when he was in his teens, and he lived mainly with his dad, who became a commercial real estate broker.”
2024-09-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oregon or Ann Arbor, Michigan, or Oxford, Mississippi, you may already know the answer. Those places have a distinctive personality, driven in part by the universities at their centers. They have sports teams and mascots, annual rituals and events, and a history and lore that get handed down from generation to generation. And as Ben discovered, you can build all of those things into the decor of the hotel. and then attract guests who want to relive their college years or who just want to feel like they're staying in a real place. Today, there are nearly 40 graduate hotels located in College Towns across the US and even in the UK, each one distinctively decorated to reflect the surrounding town and its culture. The brand was recently purchased by Hilton, but Ben's investment firm, AJ Capital, still owns and manages all the property.”
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“Like a CPG in that he leaned really hard into the idea of story, especially when it came to his best-known brand, graduate hotels. Ben saw an opportunity to do something in the hotel space that no one, believe it or not, was doing at scale. Now most chain hotels are completely forgettable. You check in, you sleep, you make a conveyor belt pancake in the morning, and you check out. These hotels are totally interchangeable, whether you're in Chicago or Denver or Pittsburgh. So with graduate hotels, Ben Weppurn created a chain of hotels that were reasonably priced, but with a distinctive and memorable personality, a story to tell. The way he accomplished this was by launching his hotels in college towns, and why college towns? Well, if you went to school in a place like Eugene,”
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“One had done it. I was like, why anybody done it? Why hadn't somebody built a brand? There's all these brands around whatever it is, but nothing around university nostalgia. Why anybody done? I figured out pretty quickly it's hard. Easy to say, hard to do, but that's actually a great recipe for a new business too.”
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“You know, one of my favorite parts of traveling is getting a feel for a neighborhood, the way locals do. A few summers ago, I was in Rome and stayed in an apartment I booked on Airbnb. It was tucked in a quiet neighborhood just outside the Roman forum. Every morning I'd walk to the corner cafe, grab an espresso, and just watch the world go by outside. I even managed to chat with the owner about the neighborhood he lived in for nearly forty years. And he got me thinking about my own neighborhood. There are incredible hiking trails and great restaurants and, of course, the beach. And when I'm traveling this summer, listing my own place on Airbnb could be a really smart way to let someone else experience the area the way I do, like a local. Listing your home on Airbnb while you're traveling is a great way to make some extra money. You could put the money toward your next trip. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much”
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