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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Gary Watts Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #384

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Gary Watts.  Gary is the broker and owner of Impact Real Estate.  This is a private real estate company that provides consulting services to not only buyers, sellers, and investors, but also to companies affiliated with the real estate industry in California.  Gary is a well-known real estate economist who began his career in 1971.  Today, he and his company are called upon to advise the home industry of economic trends that will affect and effect their future impact on real estate.  He also manages investment properties that they acquire for their investors. Bruce and Gary discuss the years when real estate was something other than residence, the beginning of monitoring interest rates, sales requiring loan originations in the 1980s, sub-prime loans, the Great Depression of the real estate industry, foreclosures and trustee sales, government involvement in the appraisal business, the advantage of charts, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

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John Karevoll of DataQuick Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #322

Bruce Norris is joined this week by John Karevoll. John was born in Minneapolis in 1951.His family moved to Norway where he was raised, educated, and married. He worked as a journalist in Oslo for ten years and joined a Scandinavian business publication in New York in 1983.In 1987 he was pulled into the world of data, mining large databases for trends.He has worked for TRW, CDB Infotek, Axiom, and others.His relationship with San Diego-based DataQuick Information Systems goes back to 1989.The statistics he generates are used by public agencies, lending institutions, title companies, and others.  Bruce and John discuss DataQuick's information system, real estate in 1970 compared to today, the Dodd-Frank Act and what effect it will have, the trends in today's market numbers, FICO scores, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast. 

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