Robotics and Real Estate With Aaron Norris #635

Bruce Norris is joined this week by his son Aaron Norris. His role with The Norris Group includes loan officer, office manager, and business development. Aaron has been in the real estate field for over a decade, having worked in the construction and design industry before joining The Norris Group in 2005. He speaks nationally on topics including technology and real estate, artificial intelligence, robotics, shared economy, virtual reality, and intech as well as marketing and PR trends. He has contributed to Forbes, BiggerPockets.com, and ThinkRealty magazine. He has an MBA from UC Irvine and is a credited public relations professional and APR. He also holds his certified specialist in planned giving CPST designation.

Bruce and Aaron will discuss his different designations and why he chose to pursue them, the weight of a business's reputation on clients, the different tradeshows he attended and what he learned the most from them, the investing they are doing in Florida, 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 SB 1069 With Senator Bob Wieckowski #618

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 discuss ADUs and how they got started, the shortage of homes in 2021, the difficulty of building in California, Senate Bill 1069 and how it got started, SB 831 and how it differs from 1069, owner-occupied and whether we should get rid of them all, people's thoughts on statewide ADUs, 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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Bruce Norris Is Joined By Aaron Norris of The Norris Group on the Real Estate Radio Show #581

This week Bruce Norris is joined by his son and Norris Group Vice President Aaron Norris. They began by discussing their website and the education space. When Aaron first came on, they had a product that, before, was only the best Bruce could produce. When Aaron came on, it looked like Goldman and Sachs all of a sudden. Aaron had a Wall Street background and did acquisition and merger presentations for a Wall Street company for many years. Big bankers would come down and tell him they needed an 80-page book in a week, and it was all the research they were doing for a major presentation for a multi-billion dollar company. Aaron learned a lot about PowerPoint, Excel, and Word through this. He even knows the shortcuts.

Aaron and Bruce discuss the importance of content and continually updating it, the Norris Group's mission statement that they just updated, products that can be bought at a discount, the investor matrix, the goal of the Investor Roadmap and how they base it off people's personalities, their daily news blog, how they ended up on the cover of Think Realty Magazine, and much more on the real estate radio show and podcast.

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The Norris Group's Craig Hill Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #522

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by The Norris Group’s very own Craig Hill. Bruce has known Craig for over 20 years. He has been running the loan business, getting people invested in trust deeds, and dealing with the borrowers.

Bruce and Craig primarily discuss trust deeds and investing, how he first got started in the business, determining who is safe to loan to, Fannie Mae's ideas on loaning to investors, areas of investing the Norris Group will not do, the biggest job of a broker, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.


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The Norris Group's Craig Hill Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #467

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Craig Hill. Craig has been with the Norris Group for almost 20 years. He is active as the underwriter, salesperson, and money raiser for the company. You might say he wears a lot of hats. Bruce and Craig discuss the hard money loan business, how Craig got his start here, the misconception of the risk of loaning to an investor, credit vs. liquidity, the Norris Group 6.9% and 8.9% loan program, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Mark Dowling and Paul Herrera of IVAR Join Bruce Norris on the Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show #466

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Mark Dowling and Paul Herrera. Mark Dowling has more than 20 years of experience in real estate and community development. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the non-profit Inland Valleys Association of Realtors. With more than 4,000 members, IVAR is one of the largest realtor associations in California. At its core IVAR provides a variety of support services that helps its members be more competitive in a real estate marketplace. Key services include realtor education and training, government affairs advocacy, multiple listing services, and professional standards mediation. Paul Herrera serves as an advocate for realtors and their clients on local issues, helping to preserve and protect property rights and the value of homeownership. He works with colleagues at the California Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. Paul helps members make a difference for their clients at the local, state, and federal levels. Bruce, Mark, and Paul discuss GSE-backed lenders, the cost for doing home renovations, loan structure and amortizing payments, IVAR's work with Renovate America, the non-payment process, HERO loans, FHA changes regarding lien positions, surprises for 2015, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Mark Dowling and Paul Herrera of IVAR Join Bruce Norris on the Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show #465

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Mark Dowling and Paul Herrera. Mark Dowling has more than 20 years of experience in real estate and community development. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the non-profit Inland Valleys Association of Realtors. With more than 4,000 members, IVAR is one of the largest realtor associations in California. At its core IVAR provides a variety of support services that helps its members be more competitive in a real estate marketplace. Key services include realtor education and training, government affairs advocacy, multiple listing services, and professional standards mediation. Paul Herrera serves as an advocate for realtors and their clients on local issues, helping to preserve and protect property rights and the value of homeownership. He works with colleagues at the California Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. Paul helps members make a difference for their clients at the local, state, and federal levels. Bruce, Mark, and Paul discuss primarily the PACE and HERO programs, energy savings, property values, how contractors make their services available for the programs, loans taking the place of firsts, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Randy Grigg of Elite Auctions Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #443

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Randy Grigg. Randy is an entrepreneur, business owner, property manager, buy and hold real estate investor, and author of The Carrot Approach to Single-Family House Management. Bruce and Randy discuss repairs he will do before renting a home, the change in society and its effect on tenants, millennials, Rent To Own versus For Rent, transitions in the auction business over the years, his new book The Twelve Minute Miracle, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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The Norris Group's Greg Norris Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #441

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Greg Norris of the Norris Group. Greg is the president of TNG Auction. TNG buys properties at trustee sales, fixes, and resells them. Bruce and Greg discuss the Norris Group's trustee sale side of the business, the length of time it takes, appraising a property, the height of trustee sales, lockouts, the type of environment to create for a trustee sale, the low inventory in the market, progression of rationalization, properties that are avoided, the effect of staging, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.
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Harry Dent Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #417

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Harry Dent. Harry is the founder of Dent Research and Economic Forecasting Firm. They specialize in demographic trends, and his mission is to help people understand change using years of hand-on business experience. Mr. Dent offers unprecedented and refreshingly understandable tools for seeing the key economic trends that will affect your life, business, and investments over the rest of your lifetime. He has authored many books, including The Great Boom Ahead, and his latest book The Economic Cliff. He is also editor of the free newsletter Economy and Markets. Bruce and Harry discuss the baby boomer and millennial generation, the correlation between the birth index and booms and busts in the economy, large participants and hedge funds in the economy, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Eric Janszen, Economic and Financial Analyst of iTulip, Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #416

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Eric Janszen. Eric is an economic analyst with more than two decades of experience as a technology industry executive and venture capitalist. In 1998 he founded itulip.com, a financial analysis company with an amazingly accurate forecasting record. Eric is also the author of the post “Catastrophe Economy" and was last featured on the panel for I Survived Real Estate 2012.  Bruce and Eric discuss economic progress over the last five years, tapering, changes in the Fed fund rate, the value of the dollar, oil prices, our biggest exports, his book The Post Catastrophe Economy, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.



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Mike Cantu Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #361

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Mike Cantu. Mike is an entrepreneur who made his fortune buying homes below market value. He would either hold them as rentals or flip them as profit. He also works out of his home and keeps everything simple. Bruce and Mike discuss the challenges and accomplishments throughout the year, the times when it is a good idea to not participate in the market, Nick Blackwell's impact on Mike's life, the number of people Mike flips homes to in a year, whether or not finding properties will be different in 2014, and much, much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.
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Craig Hill with The Norris Group #150

Bruce speaks with Craig Hill again regarding hard money loans and trust deed investments at the Norris Group. This week Craig discusses preferred characteristics for a hard money borrower. With over 20 years in the hard money business, Craig has important discernment skills that protects our money sources. The Norris Group only loans in California so The Norris Group offers local insights and prides itself on an excellent track record. Bruce and Craig discuss why The Norris Group does not offer pooled (also known as fractionalized) trust deed investment and why they prefer their one-on-one method and the risk-saving features it offers. Bruce Norris and Craig Hill also discuss the new long term hard money program currently available.

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Craig Hill with The Norris Group #149

This week Bruce Norris is joined by Craig Hill. Craig Hill is The Norris Group's hard money loan officer and California trust deed investments manager. Bruce and Craig talk about things going on in the current market, how they started working together, and the mind set of current investors in the market place. They also discuss real estate investors with an "all-in" attitude and how dangerous it can be in the current market.

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