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Podcast: Property Profits Real Estate Podcast
Episode: Adding Solar Farms to Your Development featuring Ed Mathews
Description: In this episode of The Property Profits Podcast, Dave Dubeau chats with experienced real estate investor and former tech executive Ed Mathews. Based in Connecticut, Ed shares how his real estate investing journey evolved from flipping houses to owning multifamily properties—and now, creatively leveraging land through solar farm ground leases.
Ed explains how zoning restrictions and conservation requirements on a 58-acre parcel led him to an unexpected but profitable opportunity: installing a solar farm on otherwise unusable land. He dives into how this long-term, triple-net lease offers stable mailbox money with minimal overhead, and why it’s be...