Riverside Opportunity Zone with Aaron Mazzrillo #682

Aaron Norris is joined this week by one who shares his name: Aaron Mazzrillo. He is an entrepreneur, a real estate investor, and a marketer. He also comes at this from a different angle than some people do. 

In this segment, they discuss the different ways he has marketed, his favorite platform for marketing, the new black swan in real estate, what he believes makes someone a good wholesaler, Riverside opportunity zones, how he took advantage of available real estate in the area, his thoughts on ADUs, the new ADU law that went into effect, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs and the TIC Model with Dossier Capital #679

Aaron Norris of the Norris Group continues his discussion on accessory dwelling units with Dossier Capital. Joining him are Michael Delacruz, Dennis Battung and Michael Randall. A little over a year ago, a year from last September, they were very instrumental in helping write an accessory dwelling unit chapter as they rolled out hard money funding for investors doing this via flips, holds and even secondary units on rentals already purchased. Aaron followed with people he had worked with on this, including Kristi Cirtwell, and he looked at Dossier Capital's properties this summer. This interview is a follow-up to what they have done and if they still love ADUs. 

In this segment, Aaron discusses with the three of them how they first got started in the business, whether it was hard for them when they first started with the times, the response from the cities and their buyers regarding their projects, their approach to designing ADUs, SB 13 and how this will benefit both homeowners and investors, the TIC model for ADUs, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs and Opportunity Zones With Derek Harms #677

Aaron Norris is joined this week by Derek Harms today. Over the next couple of months, Aaron is going to try to go area by area and talk to some trusted voices in the market. Derek happens to be the president of the North San Diego Real Estate Investors Club, or NSDREI. He is a Compass agent and a real estate investor down in the San Diego market. 

In this segment, Aaron and Derek will discuss ADUs, opportunity zones, whether these two could work in tandem with each other, whether Compass is looking to work with these in the future, what they are warning people about when it comes to new laws that could affect ADUs, precautions to avoid getting penalized, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Adding Square Footage and ADUs With Derek Harms #676

Aaron Norris is joined this week by Derek Harms today. Over the next couple of months, Aaron is going to try to go area by area and talk to some trusted voices in the market. Derek happens to be the president of the North San Diego Real Estate Investors Club, or NSDREI. He is a Compass agent and a real estate investor down in the San Diego market. 

In this segment, Aaron and Derek will discuss ADUs, adding square footage, the Compass brand, technology, iBuyers, the San Diego market, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs With Kristi Cirtwill #675

This week, Aaron Norris is joined again by Kristi Cirtwill. Kristi is president of Cirtwill Investments, a real estate investment company. Twelve years ago, she moved from Toronto, Canada to Long Beach to start her business, and she discovered she had a niche working with sellers with hoarding disorder. Currently, 80 percent of the houses that she ends up buying are hoarder houses. Over the last couple of years, Kristi has also been on the front end of accessory dwelling units here in California. She currently lives in Los Angeles. When she's not looking at buying her next hoarder house or building an ADU, she enjoys the outdoors, playing guitar, and driving her 1979 Volkswagen bus 

In this segment, Aaron and Kristi will discuss ADUs and what rules will change next year, what she does with her own properties, what she plans to do when the rules change, how the utilities, mail, and trash are handled with ADUs, opportunity zones as a layered approach to ADUs, whether she still sees opportunity in California, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Hoarder Houses With Kristi Cirtwill #674

This week, Aaron Norris is joined by Kristi Cirtwill. Kristi is president of Cirtwill Investments, a real estate investment company. Twelve years ago, she moved from Toronto, Canada to Long Beach to start her business, and she discovered she had a niche working with sellers with hoarding disorder. Currently, 80 percent of the houses that she ends up buying are hoarder houses. Over the last couple of years, Kristi has also been on the front end of accessory dwelling units here in California. She currently lives in Los Angeles. When she's not looking at buying her next hoarder house or building an ADU, she enjoys the outdoors, playing guitar, and driving her 1979 Volkswagen bus 

In this segment, Bruce and Aaron will discuss their upcoming event Turmoil: The Coming Storm of Changes, some of the main topics that will be covered, California and Florida real estate, Quadrants 1 and 4, ADUs and the recent bill that was brought back, 2020 and rent control, Prop 13, iBuyers, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Turmoil and the Coming Changes With Bruce and Aaron Norris #673

This week's radio show guests are The Norris Group's very own Bruce and Aaron Norris.  Today, they will be discussing their upcoming event Turmoil. They're about to send out a mailer this week after having switched gears this week following a conversation. It has been a lot of research, and they are excited about where it is going 

In this segment, Bruce and Aaron will discuss their upcoming event Turmoil: The Coming Storm of Changes, some of the main topics that will be covered, California and Florida real estate, Quadrants 1 and 4, ADUs and the recent bill that was brought back, 2020 and rent control, Prop 13, iBuyers, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Manufactured Housing and ADUs with John Arendsen #672

Aaron Norris is joined again this week by John Arendsen of Backyard Homes and several other companies to discuss accessory dwelling units. John is a licensed general contractor, manufactured home contractor, a licensed real estate broker and manufactured home dealer. This makes him a quadruple threat. He's been Aaron's go to for the last several years about accessory dwelling units. They met because of an introduction by Linda Scott out at SDCIA, and they've just had a great time getting to know each other. He gets to nerd out with legislation, anything around accessory dwelling units for the last year, and his whole family is actually involved in the business. His son and daughter run the main operations for on-the-level general contractors. His wife operates MH Processing LLC, and she's been a great resource for lending around the manufactured space. Aaron always bugs her about questions regarding ADUs 

In this segment, Aaron and John will discuss manufactured housing including ADUs and Junior ADUs, all the different bills that were passed relating to ADUs and what they cover, impact and permit fees, what investors can do if they want to present an idea to the Planning Department, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs and ADU Bills with John Arendsen #671

Aaron Norris is joined this week by John Arendsen of Backyard Homes and several other companies to discuss accessory dwelling units. John is a licensed general contractor, manufactured home contractor, a licensed real estate broker and manufactured home dealer. This makes him a quadruple threat. He's been Aaron's go to for the last several years about accessory dwelling units. They met because of an introduction by Linda Scott out at SDCIA, and they've just had a great time getting to know each other. He gets to nerd out with legislation, anything around accessory dwelling units for the last year, and his whole family is actually involved in the business. His son and daughter run the main operations for on-the-level general contractors. His wife operates MH Processing LLC, and she's been a great resource for lending around the manufactured space. Aaron always bugs her about questions regarding ADUs 

In this segment, Aaron and John will discuss ADUs, Junior ADUs, what properties fall under this category, how many people are even aware of them, the different bills that were passed regarding ADUs, who the biggest loser was when it came to the bills, the unique code Aaron uses to understand the exemptions for where ADUs can't be built, AB-68, opportunity zones and commercial real estate, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Q & A with the SDCIA Panel #649

This week's radio show is unique in that we are covering an event Aaron recently spoke at with SDCIA. At this event, he spoke with different people on a panel of experts.  This will close out our  Featured on the panel were Catherine Blakespear, mayor of Encinitas, Greg Nickless, Senior Housing Analyst for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, Geoff Plagemann, planner of Encinitas, Brent Johnson, Collateral Risk for Home Street Bank, Michelle Rodriguez, hard money lender and member of the California Mortgage Association, John Arendsen with Crest Backyard Homes, and Jordan Marks, the taxpayers' rights advocate for San Diego County.

In this segment, the audience was given the opportunity to ask the panelists questions, which included questions regarding HOAs and CCNRs, the ADU rules as you go closer to the coast, where you should start when wanting to work with ADUs, what cities like Encinitas are doing to make the ADU process quick and efficient, how to handle septic systems in an ADU, where you would park if you convert your garage to an ADU, and much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs and Manufactured Homes with the SDCIA Panel #648

This week's radio show is unique in that we are covering an event Aaron recently spoke at with SDCIA. At this event, he spoke with different people on a panel of experts.  This will close out our  Featured on the panel were Catherine Blakespear, mayor of Encinitas, Greg Nickless, Senior Housing Analyst for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, Geoff Plagemann, planner of Encinitas, Brent Johnson, Collateral Risk for Home Street Bank, Michelle Rodriguez, hard money lender and member of the California Mortgage Association, John Arendsen with Crest Backyard Homes, and Jordan Marks, the taxpayers' rights advocate for San Diego County.

Aaron will discuss with them prefabs and manufactured housing, what San Diego's stance on them are, the cost comparison between the two, Encinitas and their no-fee policy, how ADUs are reassessed, the three main things people want to see in a property, and much, much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Urban Planning and Construction with Steve Glenn #646

Aaron Norris is joined this week by Steven Glenn. He is the founder and CEO of Plant Prefab, and their mission is to make it easy, fast, and cost-effective for people to build custom, high-quality single and multi-family homes that are healthy, sustainable, and durable. The company operates out of a 62,000 square foot facility out here in the Inland Empire in Rialto, California. Previously, Glenn has worked with the Clinton HIV/AIDS initiative, was former CEO of PeopleLink, a founding partner of Idealab, and for Disney Imagineering as co-director of virtual reality studio.

Aaron and Steve will discuss how he first became interested in urban planning and construction, the difference between Living Homes and Plant Prefab, why he chose to take his business to California, his experience with getting projects through the state, his opinion on ADUs, the timeline for constructing a prefab home, 3D printed homes, and much, much more all on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs, Prefabs, and Stick-Built Homes with John Arendsen #645

Aaron Norris is joined again this week by John Arendsen. He is a licensed general contractor and manufactured home contractor, a licensed real estate broker, and a manufactured home dealer. John has been in the industry in all kinds of facet as well as his entire family for a really long time. He was on the show back in January and February, and Aaron promised to have him back because he was awesome in helping The Norris Group build a chapter on accessory dwelling units. He brings a really interesting angle because he's on the ground of helping homeowners and real estate investors decide what's best for them.

Aaron and John discuss ADUs, prefabs, and stick-built homes, Amazon's prefab plant in Fontana, labor shortages and the higher demand for construction, the planned turnaround time for prefabs, 3D-printed homes, and much more on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs and Title 24 and 25 with John Arendsen #644

Aaron Norris is joined this week by John Arendsen. He is a licensed General Contractor and a manufactured home contractor as well as a licensed real estate broker and manufactured home dealer. This week, Aaron is continuing his conversation around accessory dwelling units.

Aaron and John discuss ADUs, stick-built homes, and manufactured housing, their financing, how the law applies to multiplexes and how many understand it, cities that have banned short-term rentals or made it law to stay there to rent it out, the difference between the DMV and RVIA, the HOA and why they are tight-fisted about their policies, the timeframe for completing a manufactured home, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs, SB 1069, and SB 13 Part 2 With Senator Bob Wieckowski #643

This week, Aaron Norris is joined again by Senator Bob Wieckowski. He was elected in 2014, and he represents the 10th Senate District in the California State Legislature. The district stretches from Southern Alameda County into Santa Clara County. He serves on a number of Senate committees as well, including judiciary, budget and fiscal review, transportation and housing, and ethics. He has been one of the leading voices pushing for housing solutions, including legislation on accessory dwelling units. He hopes to help out with California’s affordability. issues and lack of new construction. His background is as a small business owner and bankruptcy attorney.

Aaron and Bob will discuss Senate Bills 1069, ADUs, and specifically SB 13, when it will go up for a vote, what you can do to support it, what is included in it, how it affects mitigation and impact fees, and much more on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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ADUs, SB 1069, and SB 13 With Senator Bob Wieckowski #642

This week, Aaron Norris is joined by Senator Bob Wieckowski. He was elected in 2014, and he represents the 10th Senate District in the California State Legislature. The district stretches from Southern Alameda County into Santa Clara County. He serves on a number of Senate committees as well, including judiciary, budget and fiscal review, transportation and housing, and ethics. He has been one of the leading voices pushing for housing solutions, including legislation on accessory dwelling units. He hopes to help out with California’s affordability. issues and lack of new construction. His background is as a small business owner and bankruptcy attorney.

Aaron and Bob will discuss Senate Bills 1069 and 13, ADUs and what is happening with them, rules that 1069 covers, including transit, tandem parking, and detached and attached garages, the cities that have passed ordinances in conjunction with 1069, and much more on the real estate radio show.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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Vacation Rentals with Iris Veneracion #629

Aaron Norris is joined this week by Iris Veneracion. Iris began her full-time real estate investing career back in 2003 when she quit her six-figure corporate job in mortgage finance. She has now purchased, wholesaled, and rehabbed, or sold over 200 properties in Southern California. She is the director of InvestClub, formerly known as InvestClub for Women. Last fall, she helped the Norris Group create a very beefy chapter on short-term rentals, which Aaron had been wanting to cover for a long time. She is now also a proud mom of two twin boys.

Aaron and Iris discuss vacation rentals and where she sees them going in the future, her philosophy regarding these rentals, the biggest mistakes and misconceptions investors who work in this space have, her rules when deciding what tenants to let stay, trends she sees coming in the future, and the main things a place needs to have to be a good place to stay for tenants.

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ADUs and Title 24 and 25 with John Arendsen #644

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. This week, Aaron is continuing his conversation around accessory dwelling units.

Aaron and John discuss ADUs, stick-built homes, and manufactured housing, their financing, how the law applies to multiplexes and how many understand it, cities that have banned short-term rentals or made it law to stay there to rent it out, the difference between the DMV and RVIA, the HOA and why they are tight-fisted about their policies, the timeframe for completing a manufactured home, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.


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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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A New Type of Renting and Co-Living With Shayna Golbaf #619

This week, Aaron Norris is joined by Shayna Golbaf. She is a real estate investor based out of Riverside and has actually grown up in real estate. It is actually her side hustle as she has been an educator for 15 years and is currently an assistant principal in Riverside. She is also currently going through a Ph.D program at UC Irvine for its leadership and education. She is studying Spanish, and she loves to travel more than anyone. Aaron met Shayna as part of a non-profit board. She was voluntold to run for Mardi Gras queen, and she did not even realize what was happening until she showed up and her picture was already plastered on the posters. True to form, she already ended up winning the entire thing.

Aaron and Shayna discuss how and why she first got involved in real estate, the typical units she rents out, the people she likes to rent to, the longest time she has let a room go vacant, where she goes to get her leads, the year she first started testing her method of co-living, whether she has seen drastic changes in the market having gone through a full cylce, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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