Whether it’s keeping a tidier yard or taking the plunge and moving into your first home, New Year resolutions are all about achieving major goals. Achievement coach Dave Rossi joins Joe in studio today to talk about dealing with the emotions that go along with major real estate transactions

• Fear and courage

• Preparing yourself for a purchase

• Are too emotional to make a decision?

• The one imperative habit

• Getting out of your own way

• Financial fears

• Taking the first steps

Transactions require a LOT of paperwork and a $1million purchase is something you'll want to know every detail about. Today Joe brings real estate and business litigation attorney Dean Rossi into the studio to discuss mistakes that can happen when consumers don’t know their contract or need something better. Topics include:

• When and why contact a real estate attorney

• Issues with noncontingent offers

• Dean’s thoughts on FSBO transactions

• Difficulties with disclosures

• Dual agency

Schools, jobs, investments–there’s a lot of data when it comes to predicting a real estate market. Joe starts today’s show with a top 10 list of cities and suburbs that professionals believe are going to be hot in 2018.

In the third quarter Fannie and Freddie 3+ billion in profit and the NAR is a massive organization that's bigger than pharmaceuticals. How can industries with this much power and wealth suffer in consumer satisfaction? Today Joe asks how much money is being reinvested for consumer ben

2018 is finally here and the New Year is bringing plenty of new things with it. A new host is waiting in the wings to teach us all about how we can maximize Silicon Valley’s potential growth. We also have a new tax plan in the works that looks to have a major impact on the housing market. Today Joe compares the current tax code to the proposed. Also in discussion:

• HELOC’s

• Child tax credit

• Businesses

• Depreciation and recovery period deductions

• Inventory levels

• And much

Christmas is days away and the New Year is coming quicker than many of us care to believe. Before you get caught up preparing for parties, you’ll want to take a minute and think about what the New Year will hold for your real estate. Today Joe shares his real estate and mortgage predictions for 2018. Topics include:

• Continued low inventory?

• The new tax bill

• Consolidation for real estate and mortgage

• Get in the market now or wait it out?

• Working with educated consumers

• Interes

Joe starts today’s show by trying to figure out how the tax code affects consumers’ real estate, mortgages, tax deductions and HELOC’s. Joining Joe for the second half of the show is real estate investor Josh Weidman of TCS Investments. Josh provides a hands- free way to invest in real estate, leaving consumers free from landlord hassles:

• The turnkey process

• Cap rates and knowing your expenses

• Turnkey success

• Philadelphia tax breaks

• Will the 2018 market continue to be good fo

Today Joe invites Aspire Planning Associates CFP’s Evor Vattuone and Mira Ma into the studio to help you avoid common pitfalls in and on the way to retirement. Topics include:

• Dave asks if new laws means he should convert his rental property to an LLC

• Does the market still have legs & stock market risks

• How the mortgage tax deduction affects people in California

• What your strategy should be in current market conditions

• The new tax code

• Addressing the Bay Area’s equit

Plenty of opportunities exist for real estate investors, but none really here in California. Today Joe welcomes back soon-to-be host Charlie Castro of Buy Right Properties to talk about investment opportunities that lie beyond the California border:

• Buying multiple properties

• Hot markets, average purchase prices & inventory in other states

• Bank owned vs. REO foreclosures

• Cash flow properties

• Why Buy Right properties are not listed on the MLS

• 2018 inventory and forecasts

Single or multifamily, investors are always looking for more education. Today Joe chats with Financial Attunement’s President and COO Neal Bawa. Neal has made an impressive transition from technologist to real estate educator and investor and is here to share his knowledge with us:

• Steps should first time investors take?

• National and Bay Area housing crisis

• Solving the growth problem

• Economies with the best and worst projections

• Different opportunities in real estate

• The Mill

Today Joe looks at the top investment strategies and niches for the upcoming year. Specific topics include:

• Single family homes, apartment buildings, mobile homes and commercial buildings

• Open land

• REIT’s

• Foreclosure auctions and tracking delinquent properties

• Probate and estate planning attorneys

• Student rentals

• Rent to own

• Cities and states ready to boom