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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Bruce Norris Is Joined By Aaron Norris of The Norris Group on the Real Estate Radio Show #582

This week Bruce Norris is joined again by his son and Norris Group Vice President Aaron Norris. They began this segment by discussing some of the disruption that is occurring. They were speaking at an event recently, and a realtor went up to speak about the 80/20 rule. This simply refers to 80% of the business being done by 20% of the people. He really thought it was headed to 95/5. It’s scary.

Aaron and Bruce discuss Airbnb, how they compare to Common and Pod Shares, why you as a homeowner would make your home into an Airbnb, whether co-living is a new or already existing concept, Open Door, Uber Agents and how they are a big step in real estate technology, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Aaron Norris Is Joined By Sterling Jawitz of Common on the Real Estate Radio Show #580

This week Aaron Norris is joined Sterling Jawitz of Common. He is head of the real estate strategic partnerships at Common where he is in charge of growing and maintaining relationships with large-scale real estate developers, owners, and investors in all target markets. As a first employee of Common, Sterling spent more than a year as head of real estate acquisitions, focusing on real estate acquisition, strategy, project-specific analysis. Prior to Common, he focused on real estate development in New York City, specializing in high density co-living spaces that provide a social and professional development services and amenities. He also worked in real estate capital markets, primarily with institutional investors looking to deploy equity and debt.

Aaron and Sterling discuss whether there is a lot of competition when it comes to micro and co-living, pod shares and whether these add to the competition, the markets where Common is located and why they chose them, how they get their tenants involved in the community, the risk of putting strangers together and how they manage the risk, the future of co-housing, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Aaron Norris Is Joined By Sterling Jawitz of Common on the Real Estate Radio Show #579

This week Aaron Norris is joined Sterling Jawitz of Common. He is head of the real estate strategic partnerships at Common where he is in charge of growing and maintaining relationships with large-scale real estate developers, owners, and investors in all target markets. As a first employee of Common, Sterling spent more than a year as head of real estate acquisitions, focusing on real estate acquisition, strategy, project-specific analysis. Prior to Common, he focused on real estate development in New York City, specializing in high density co-living spaces that provide a social and professional development services and amenities. He also worked in real estate capital markets, primarily with institutional investors looking to deploy equity and debt.

Aaron and Sterling discuss Common and their main focus, the different types of co-living scenarios and whether they are the same or different, misconceptions people have about co-living, what is included in a Common living space, the typical interior design for a Common 4-5 bedroom living space, whether they have a team member who places the right people together, ground-up development, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Bruce Norris Is Joined By John Bohannon of BuildZig on the Real Estate Radio Show #576

This week Bruce Norris is joined again by John Bohannon of BuildZig. John took his first interest in shop class for the construction industry at large in elementary school and has turned it into a career. He is the director of business development at BuildZig, a funds control firm that has been in the industry since 1936. John is a licensed general contractor, certified construction inspector, registered home inspector, and a certified review appraiser.

Bruce and John discuss Joint Control Escrow Licensing, the hottest market and where he sees the most activity, co-living and micro-apartments, the newest business incubator, whether other states like California utilized heavy regulations after the downturn, the biggest mistakes funds control catches, popular projects these days, whether the recent fires will affect construction, and much, much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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Rob Hahn of 7DS Associates Joins Aaron Norris on the Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show #542

Aaron Norris is joined again this week by Rob Hahn, the founder and managing partner of 7DS Associates. He has done everything from working in finance corporate law technology, product development, media and entertainment, startups, fashion, and even a professional card player. You will catch him on his blog The Notorious R.O.B, where he opines on real estate topics, technology, marketing, and strategy. You will find him at numerous industry events, including the Inman Connect, T3 Summit, and local state and national association events.

Aaron and Rob discuss Instant Offers and Open Door, lead generation sources, the future of real estate when it comes to co-living, realtors' responses to the fast changing technology, the big role investors are playing in real estate, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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