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Wendy Corr:

Well, hey there, folks, welcome to The Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast, and we focus on really interesting people in the Cowboy State. Today - we had to make a couple of changes of plans because we originally had somebody else set for today, and they had something come up. So we got somebody who is just as awesome, and I can't wait to introduce the rest of the state to this up and coming entrepreneur who has really been changing the face, along with his his peers really been changing the face of the business landscape in Cody. So we're going to get to Jake in just a minute. First, I want to make sure that you all know about the Wyoming business alliances, business from the basement podcast. We like to cross promote with them, because they are providing such a great service. Jake Ivan off, if you've not been listening to the business from the basement podcast, I think you might have something to contribute there, but this is something that that business people in Wyoming can really get a lot of information from and start that conversation. So check out the Wyoming Business Alliance business from the basement podcast. They're a great resource and a great partner with us. But Now, speaking of business, and speaking of Wyoming business, I want to introduce the rest of the state here to Jake Ivanoff, Jake has been he's a Cody native, but he and his peers are just making such amazing things happen up here in the northwest part of the state. And Jake, again, Cody native. You. You grew up in Cody. Your parents came from other places, but you started out in Cody and went to college, came back and said, this, this is my purpose. And so Jake, welcome to the roundup.

Jake Ivanoff:

Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here, and I appreciate you taking the time for me. Absolutely. It just worked out so great to be able to shout out to Abby Roy, because Abby is our advertising admin. She rocks. She knows everybody, but she she is the one that said, Hey, you ought to talk to Jake. Ivan off, and I'm so glad that she did, Jake, you and I have talked before about real estate things when I was doing reporting and things like that. You have 307 Realty in Cody, but you've branched out of Cody as well. You kind of, you're a Park County, Park county wide and and more so than that, you've really got your fingers in a lot of things. So Jake, tell us a little bit about why real estate. Because as soon as you graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2007 you said, this is what I want tell us about that. Yeah, you know, when I was in Laramie, I was I didn't really know what I wanted to do, or I just know that

I wanted to do something that I could step into and and be challenged and never really have a ceiling. So getting into real estate was kind of, that is the market that I really was who's I was driven towards. One of my friends had started selling real estate in Laramie, and he was doing a good job. And he was like, Hey, you should start selling real estate here with us. And then in the back my mind. I'm thinking, you know, my parents, they were in they had real estate, they owned real estate, and they kind of bought some rentals and managed them and did all that, and invested in, invested in real estate and, and I thought, Man, I could go home and with the contacts I have there, I could find a brokerage and get my real estate license and, and I could just do that. So I remember, I just went to the registrar, and I changed my major to communications, because it was the fastest way out. And got my communications degree, actually a lot of it, and there was an emphasis on radio in that. So, so that helped. And then so I came back home and I graduated that may, and I had my real estate license by October, and sold my first house, like with the first newspaper had I put on so, which