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Hey everyone, Kirk here again and welcome back to the daily call. On today’s daily call, I want to talk about passive drip investing with high dividend yield REITs. This is something I guess near and dear to my heart because I used to be in the REIT industry. I was a REIT analyst outside Washington DC for a little while. And so, for REITs, I understand the business emphatically. I was in the business, I used to cover that business as a research analyst and I think it’s a good business when you want to get into some sort of stable or corporate bond type real estate investing. Why do I say that? Because in most cases, REITs… And although there’s a lot of variety of REITs… REITs by the way are Real Estate Investment Trust. In most cases with REITs, you can get into what are called triple net REITs which are basically REITs where all of the assumption of risk as far as taxes and maintenance and upkeep on the property is handled by the tenants. An example of this might be that a real estate investment trust or a R