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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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #346

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O’Toole. Sean is the founder and CEO of Property Radar, and he was the founder of Foreclosure Radar. Their website literally changed the foreclosure industry and made it much easier for people to compete against very large companies. He started buying and selling his own properties, dealing with 150 residential commercial foreclosures, and he used 15 years of software industry experience to make the job a lot easier. Bruce and Sean discuss how he got started in the foreclosure business, his new website in depth, short sales, the number of homeowners still underwater and emerging out from it, inventory levels, the predominance of refis in the lender business, the current CAP rate, the upcoming event I Survived Real Estate 2013, and much more on this weeks real estate radio show and podcast.

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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #345

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O’Toole. Sean is the founder and CEO of PropertyRadar, and he was the founder of ForeclosureRadar. Their website literally changed the foreclosure industry and made it much easier for people to compete against very large companies. He started buying and selling his own properties, dealing with 150 residential commercial foreclosures, and he used 15 years of software industry experience to make the job a lot easier. Bruce and Sean discuss the new website for PropertyRadar, the trustee sale business and foreclosure market in the upcoming years, the tech market in 2005-2008, AVMs, the appraisal process, the market in Northern California, specifically San Francisco and San Jose, SB 391, shadow inventory, price increases over the years, median price and interest rates, the upcoming event I Survived Real Estate 2013, and much more on this weeks real estate radio show and podcast.

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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #313

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Sean O’Toole. Sean is the founder and president of ForeclosureRadar.com, one of the finest websites a real estate investor can get involved with on a regular basis.Sean has done an excellent job on the website and put his computer genius to work in the industry, saving a lot of people a lot of money. He has also created competition that did not exist prior to his website by making it easier for people to become very proficient. Bruce and Sean discuss his foreclosure website and how it has grown into a short sale referral network, California's budget problems and where we may actually see improvement, delayed household growth, hedge funds and their impact on rents, REITs, affordability being close to all-time highs, new policies in the future following price aggression, and more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast. 

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Sean O'Toole on the Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show #312

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O’Toole. Sean is the founder and president of ForeclosureRadar.com, a website that has pretty much revolutionized the trustee sale-buying business. Bruce and Sean discuss surprising changes at the end of last year, the number of people in foreclosure or 90+ days late in California, prices in 2013, their trip to Washington D.C., inflation, the credit world, and more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast. 

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I Survived Real Estate 2012 Part 5 #305

On October 19, 2012, The Norris Group proudly presented I Survived Real Estate 2012.  An expert line-up of industry experts joined Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and the outlook for real estate in the coming year.  Over $77,000 was raised to benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Bruce Norris welcomed Rick Sharga of Carrington Holdings Company and Sean O'Toole of ForeclosureRadar to the panel.  Bruce discusses with them the business model for Carrington Holdings Company, the REIT format, the creation of new security products, the different sources for properties that can be purchased, note sales, the future of shadow inventory, and more.  To find out more, tune in next week for I Survived Real Estate 2012, part 6.

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Sean O'Toole, President of ForeclosureRadar, Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #296

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O'Toole. Sean is the founder and CEO of ForeclosureRadar.com, the only company that tracks every foreclosure in California with daily updates on all foreclosure auctions. Prior to ForeclosureRadar, Sean spent 15 years building and launching software companies before entering the foreclosure business in 2002. Here, he has successfully bought and sold more than 150 properties. Bruce and Sean discuss how Sean first became involved in the foreclosure business, the margin of spread in 2002 compared to today, the access to information compared to today, where the money in the marketplace is coming from, the status of yields in the market, REOs and shadow inventory, and much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

In other news, the fifth annual I Survived Real Estate will be meeting on October 19 this year. The Norris Group would like to thank their gold and platinum sponsors for helping to make this event possible. Sean O'Toole will be joining the panel at I Survived Real Estate 2012.
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Sean O'Toole Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate radio show #273

This week Bruce Norris is joined once again by Sean O’Toole, founder and CEO of ForeclosureRadar.com.  Sean has been an experienced trustee sale investor, buying over 150 properties, both residential and commercial.  He also has a very intensive tech background that he has brought to ForeclosureRadar.com.  Bruce and Sean continue their discussion on shadow inventory, talk about pricing and the status of housing in the future, how foreclosures are affecting the banks, deed-in-lieu and the risks that come with it, principal reductions, loan mods, their trip to Washington D.C., the economic situation in Nevada compared to California, and 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 #272

This week Bruce Norris is joined by Sean O'Toole, founder and CEO of ForeclosureRadar.com.  Prior to launching ForeclosureRadar, Sean successfully purchased and flipped more than 150 residential and commercial foreclosures.  Bruce and Sean discuss Sean's website and how he has helped many through it, his goal when creating the site, the market today compared to earlier years, ForeclosureRadar's use in finding houses to repair, code enforcement, the increase in foreclosure sales and the dominant role they play today, the real estate debt at the peak of the market, the biggest mistakes Sean sees in trustee sales, the definition of drop bids, shadow inventory, and much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

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