Erik Hernandez Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #392

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Erik Hernandez.  Erik is the senior vice president with Lee and Associates.  He specializes in commercial real estate, his exact specialty being industrial real estate.  He specializes in land sales and development representation, landlord representation, and investment sales and analysis. Bruce and Erik discuss how different the market is today, the peak of the market before problems occurred, declining rents and their affect on the value of commercial real estate, the "blend and extend" method, the CMBS market and the resets occurring, the consolidation of different REO departments, the most expensive segment of real estate to build, the industrial market, cap rates, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.







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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #391

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Sean O’Toole.  Sean is the founder of PropertyRadar.com.  He began his very successful career as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley working with people and starting up companies.  He is a personal friend, and he and Bruce have gone on trips together down to Washington D.C. to do research.  PropertyRadar.com is a big advantage to any investor or realtor who has access to it since it helps them navigate the real estate market and find things easier than you would have any other way. Bruce and Sean discuss low sales this year, credit terms and how they are not showing signs of loosening, the new programs for lower FICO scores and stated income, the impact of foreign investors in California, hedge funds and REITs, the ramifications of being below trend, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.







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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #390

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O’Toole.  Sean is the founder of PropertyRadar.com.  He began his very successful career as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley working with people and starting up companies.  He is a personal friend, and he and Bruce have gone on trips together down to Washington D.C. to do research.  PropertyRadar.com is a big advantage to any investor or realtor who has access to it since it helps them navigate the real estate market and find things easier than you would have any other way. Aaron and Sean discuss the start of PropertyRadar and their different services, the cost for the service, customers who purchase Subject To, absentee owners and flippers, foreclosure trends and trustee sales, upside-down homeowners, the foreclosure process in California, the rights of a tenant whose property is purchased at at trustee sale, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.



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Joshua Dorkin Joins Aaron Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #389

Aaron Norris is filling in for Bruce Norris again this week as he is joined once again by Joshua Dorkin, founder and CEO of BiggerPockets, arguably the largest forum and social media network dedicated to real estate investors online, possibly internationally. He is a native New Yorker with a very interesting background in entrepreneurship and education. He is best known for his no b.s. approach to real estate education and an unapologetic anti-guru philosophy that has attracted over 180,000 subscribers. His site has garnered attention from major media outlets, and it is not unusual to see BiggerPockets teams content picked up on sites such as the National Association of Realtors and the Huffington Post. Joshua lives in Denver with his wife Julie and three girls. Aaron and Joshua discuss the BiggerPockets site, the increase in international participants, their books and podcasts the produce, shifts in the real estate models from only ten years ago, the next steps for BiggerPockets, the top tools on the website, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.



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