Manufactured Housing With John Arendsen #627

Aaron Norris is joined this week by John Arendsen. He is a licensed General Contractor and manufactured home contractor as well as a licensed real estate broker and manufactured home dealer.  He is CEO of On the Level and Crest Backyard Homes.  His family has been focused on all things manufactured housing and ADUs for some time now.  He is also the author of Backyard Homeguide, everything you need to know about building an accessory dwelling unit.

Aaron and John discuss manufactured housing and how he got involved in the space, manufactured homes compared to modulars, ADUs and why people would have one, ADUs and junior ADUs, SB 1226, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Rent Increases and Migration with Jordan Levine #626

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Jordan Levine. Jordan is the Senior Economist at the California Association of Realtors. They are a statewide trade organization of real estate professionals with more than 190,000 members. Jordan started in the research and economics department of CAR in 2016. As Senior Economist at CAR, Jordan analyzes housing market conditions, macro-economic trends, and public policy issues through the use of external data from the public and private sector and survey researches conducted by CAR.

Bruce and Jordan discuss the real estate market in 2018, where we stand in terms of terms of housing affordability, median price, and how many can be homeowners, why he is optimistic about the market, misconceptions buyers have about financing and down payments, rent increases and whether this spurs buying activity or out-migration, the reason people are leaving California, things outside of real estate that concern him, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Adding Square Footage and Smart Home Technology with Kymberly Nelson and Derek Harms #625

This week, Aaron Norris is joined by Kymberly Nelson and Derek Harms. They were very helpful back in September with Cashing In On A Boom. They renovated one chapter and added three brand new chapters to the portal. Adding Square Footage was the chapter they helped with since they had been doing beautiful work in the space for close to a decade. Aaron and Bruce decided when they were not experts at something, they wanted to bring somebody in who was actually doing the strategy in California so they could get the latest and greatest.

Aaron discusses with them the price points in areas like San Diego and Orange County, dollar amounts and square footage and whether it makes more sense doing it at the higher or lower end, design elements they include to make their properties stand out, smart home technology, ways they made their properties stand out that took them by surprise, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Adding Square Footage with Kymberly Nelson and Derek Harms #624

This week, Aaron Norris is joined by Kymberly Nelson and Derek Harms. They were very helpful back in September with Cashing In On A Boom. They renovated one chapter and added three brand new chapters to the portal. Adding Square Footage was the chapter they helped with since they had been doing beautiful work in the space for close to a decade. Aaron and Bruce decided when they were not experts at something, they wanted to bring somebody in who was actually doing the strategy in California so they could get the latest and greatest.

Aaron discusses with them how they first got involved in the real estate field, when they first met and became business partners, the kind of properties they prefer to work with, the market in 2012 when they first got started, Derek's first deal in San Diego, their different jobs they bring to the table and contribute, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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