Interest rates remain flat after the Federal Reserve meets and discusses rate cuts in May.  King Newsom seems unaware that his policies allow unlimited petty theft and retail theft.  He brags about scolding a cashier at Target for letting a shoplifter walk out of the store.  Foothill subdivisions were once the preferred choice for California planners to allow new home construction.  Wildfires and environmentalists have put the brakes on these plans.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.