This Land Is My Land: Doug & Irena Baker

On this episode we talk with two Seattle property owner investors, Irena and Doug Baker. While this is an important conversation specific to the controversies of Seattle housing, it wades into some universal questions for everyone that lives in the USA. Together, we talk about generational wealth, what it means to invest in property, neighborhood revitalization vs. gentrification, relationship of renter to landlord and more.

Irena and I are recently retired, formerly self employed professionals living in Seattle for the last 29 years . We moved here in 1992 and have owned a house since 1993. We have two grown children living in Seattle.

We invested in residential real estate in 2006 and purchased a small commercial property in 2018. We continue to maintain a hands-on approach to property ownership.