Richard Baker

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1,143 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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And they funded 75, in those days, 75% of value when it was done, they funded in advance.

So 75% of value when it was done was more than 100% of cost.

Okay.

I did that 50 times over and over and over.

So no partners financed all the deals.

We still own all the shopping centers together.

No, I don't own Walmart.

We own the buildings.

We own the buildings and we own all the tents.

The real money was made in the 20,000 square feet of shop space next to Walmart and the out parcels.

The deals I made years ago for $15 a foot are now renting at $50 and $60 a foot.

OK, so so as I did the shopping center story for 17 years, now it's 2005 and Walmart's not so popular.

And and the environmental issues of getting approvals for large retail was very getting very hard to do the type of transaction I had done.

I was in the only real estate business.

Okay, so now by 2005, I'm like, wow, this is too hard.

I can't continue to develop real estate like this.

I need a new way of thinking.

And the new way of thinking was to buy these old dying department store chains that owned a tremendous amount of real estate.

I have a brother and two sisters.

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