Bruce Norris Is Joined By Amanda Han and Matthew MacFarland on the Real Estate Radio Show #571

This week Bruce Norris is joined by Amanda Han and Matthew MacFarland, owners of Keystone CPA in Orange County. 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. Amanda 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, and you can catch her book on BiggerPockets called Tax Strategies for Savvy Real Estate Investors.

They discuss many topics covering the new tax bill passed, including changes that took place in California as well as things that stayed the same, changes regarding withholding Social Security and Medicare tax, changes to capital gains rates, how much it will help lower the tax bill for Americans, how it will affect charitable donations, its effect on itemized deductions, whether or not these changes are pro real estate for both investors and homeowners, and much more more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Bruce Norris Is Joined By Tom Wilson on the Real Estate Radio Show #570

This week Bruce Norris is joined again by Tom K. Wilson. Tom has been an investor for about five decades and has been investing in single families. He has grown into some other products as well.

Bruce discusses with Tom when he got involved with his properties he works with, how he funds them, his highest cash-flowing product, when he decided to shift his model for the company and what the result was, the toughest thing for him when working with a syndication, their trip to Washington D.C., and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Bruce Norris Is Joined By Tom Wilson on the Real Estate Radio Show #569

This week Bruce Norris is joined by Tom K. Wilson. Tom is a 5-decade real estate investor who transitioned from a 30-year engineering career, managing some of Silicon Valley’s pioneering high tech companies to a full-time investor in 2000. Since then he has bought and sold over 4,000 units and over 400 million of real estate in 8 states, including 9 apartment buildings, 11 commercial properties, 3 condo conversion projects, 15 syndications, and has flipped over 650 houses. One of his companies, Wilson Investment Properties, provides high quality commercial syndications to other investors. Tom and his wife of 50 years have lived in Silicon Valley for 49 years, where they are active in their community church and charitable organizations. Tom is a frequent speaker at investment clubs and expos. He has a weekly radio show on real estate investing and often provides investment education to other investors.

Bruce discusses with Tom the states where he has invested, his biggest challenges when investing out of state, real estate cycles in Texas compared to California, his best method for learning, his top recommendations for new investors, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Aaron Norris Is Joined By Mark Lesswing and Todd Carpenter of NAR on the Real Estate Radio Show #568

This week Aaron Norris is joined again by Mark Lesswing and Todd Carpenter of the National Association of Realtors to cover technology topics. Today, they continue their conversation on technology.

Aaron discusses with Mark and Todd discuss if escrow and title should be concerned about their jobs, the middleman and how we are eliminating them, where Blockchain will start in the U.S., zero interface, the biggest struggle for brokerage and real estate companies when generating leads, what they read to keep up on all the latest technology, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Aaron Norris Is Joined By Mark Lesswing and Todd Carpenter of NAR on the Real Estate Radio Show #567

This week Aaron Norris is joined by two gentlemen from the National Association of Realtors to cover technology topics. Mark Lesswing is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at the National Association of Realtors. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and started programming robots just out of college. He’s worked in startups, turnarounds, and such brands as Sybase and Oracle. He has been with the National Association of Realtors for over a decade covering topics ranging from Blockchain technology to robotics.

Todd Carpenter is the Managing Director for Data Analytics for the National Association of Realtors. Tod leads the association’s efforts to build analytics tools that help the association make better business and advocacy decisions. Before his position at NAR, he was sr. Manager of Industry Engagement for Trulia and has over 20+ years of experience in the real estate and mortgage industry.

Aaron discusses with Mark and Todd the characteristics of Blockchain, the difference between this and Bitcoin, private Blockchain and regular Blockchain, whether our current ecosystem is best serving the community, smart contracts, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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