David Goldberg of UBS Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #397

Bruce Norris is joined this week by David Goldberg. David is an executive director at UBS, covering the building and building product sector. Before assuming coverage, David was an associate analyst who focused on the home-building companies within the sector. Prior to this and before business school, he worked at the Convergent Wealth Advisors, a wealth management firm in Rockville, Maryland that focuses on providing independent financial advice to high net worth families. Bruce and David discuss businesses which are buying and renting distressed properties, their exit strategies and creating scattered REITs, the transition to the next stage in the housing recovery, construction in 2013 that drove demand above supply, margin liquidity and marginal easing, the source of capital, the process by which we funded loans back in 2004-2006, builder outlook, CD locations, the building industry overall, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.




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Amanda Han and Matt MacFarland of Keystone CPA Join Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #396

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Amanda Han and Matt MacFarland. They are the owners of Keystone CPA. Matt has over 20 years of experience in public accounting as a CPA and tax strategist. He has worked for both the Big Four and Regional CPA firms. Matt has served as a tax manager in the private client advisor group, where he focuses his expertise in tax planning and compliance for high worth individuals, business owners, commercial real estate investors, and professional athletes. The man has over 18 years of experience as a CPA with special emphasis in real estate, self-directed investing, and individual tax-planning. Amanda has extensive Big Four public accounting experience in the lead tax groups serving clients in the real estate industry. Bruce, Amanda, and Matt discuss tax season, the busiest time for CPAs, the diversity of clients, the time in California when they reached the upper limits of the tax rate in California, the federal rate and new additions to the tax, the brand new Unearned Medicare Contribution tax and social security tax, possible changes in the tax rate structure, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.




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Kaaren Hall Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #395

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Kaaren Hall.  Kaaren is the owner of uDirect IRA Services, a company that specializes in helping people understand what to do with their self-directed IRAs.  Kaaren utilizes her skill of mortgage banking, real estate, and property management to focus on this market and help others even in the midst of the recession that had gone by and collapsed the mortgage market.  Through her knowledge, she has educated tens of thousands on building wealth through IRAs and diversifying their investments. Bruce and Kaaren discuss different IRAs including ROTH, SEP, and traditional, how long IRAs have been in place, making contributions to your IRAs and when you can do business with them, the cutoff amounts for married and singles, groups of people allowed and disallowed from IRAs, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.




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Bill Armstrong Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #394

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Bill Armstrong. Bill was the 2013 Treasurer of the National Association of Realtors, the largest trade organization of its type with about 1 million agents who are involved in both residential and commercial real estate. Bill has been a broker for over 30 years and is vice president of Macintosh Realtors in Frederick, Maryland. He is also involved in fundraising and has raised over $300,000 for adults and children with disabilities. He is also a father of three. Bruce and Bill discuss the residential mix in California, whether real estate development was hurt by a healthy stock market, uncertainty in the commercial market,the Terrorism Reauthorization Insurance Act, employment in 2014, full time and contract employees, the increase in construction costs, foreign investors, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.















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Erik Hernandez Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #393

Bruce Norris is joined once again 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 mezzanine financing, crowd funding and liquidity, the percentage of the market with lender-owned properties in both the industrial and office space, Auction.com and its affect on the commercial world, the price of land, foreign investors in the commercial space, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.











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