How do you build wealth in real estate without leaving the community behind?

How do you build wealth in real estate without leaving the community behind? In this episode of The Bow Tie Edge Real Estate Unraveled, Pierre Mason joins the show for a raw, thoughtful, and deeply practical conversation about real estate education, investor identity, community power, and the systems that shape Chicago neighborhoods.Pierre works with real estate professionals, investors, developers, lenders, and beginners through King Dominion University Real Estate Mastermind, where the focus is not just on finding deals, but on building the mindset, relationships, structure, and resources needed to actually move. We talk about mastermind groups, learning from other professionals, creating buyers through education, choosing the right exit strategy, structuring entities, finding funding, and helping new investors get to their first deal.Then the conversation gets bigger. We dig into relationships as currency, borrowing audiences, tax liens, tax deeds, receivership, Dearborn Realtist Board, redlining, white flight, appraisal bias, demolition, zombie properties, and why distressed real estate is never just about buildings. It is about policy, ownership, community memory, access to capital, and who gets to decide what a neighborhood becomes.This episode is for real estate investors, brokers, attorneys, developers, lenders, community builders, and anyone who believes real estate education should do more than create profit. It should create ownership, stability, and a stronger table for everyone willing to build.Real strategy. Real numbers. Real talk. Welcome to The Bow Tie Edge.