Real Talk with Brad Maaske

How far we have fallen.  Celebrating "Pride" as a nation.  One of the deadliest sins.  The voting continues in California with anomalies that can't be explained and probably won't be.  A Florida man found out that even getting a building permit before building isn't protection against a local council out of control.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Property ownership is theft according Democrat Socialists who are intent on taking over every public office in America and fundamentally changing our culture.  Why do we elect them?  They promise everything for free.  Free rent.  Free school.  Free medical care.  This has never worked in any government on earth.  Despite the fact that not one of the climate crisis projected over the past twenty years has happened leftist claim that the failure of their predictions is because we have spent trillions to stop the catastrophes.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

With a little over a week to the California Primary the question is will California conservatives vote or let the left continue to decide who leads our state.  San Francisco is about to require that all new water heaters be electric heat pump water heaters which cost between $8,000 and $35,000 to install.  What is the truth about the proposed 140 mph Cal Trans busses?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Newsom claims he has magically balanced California's budget.  High Speed Rail wants your local tax dollars.   Ballots are out.  Will conservatives vote in the primary?  We discuss all of this on this week's Real Talk.

Ballots have arrived in the mail. The California primary is rapidly approaching.  How many California conservatives will actually vote?  Proposition 50 which eliminated 5 Republican districts statewide only passed because California Republicans did not vote.  In Northern California replacing a home water heater will cost between $8,000 and $35,000 beginning in 2027 with the new energy code adopted by Santa Clara County.  What are the advantages to rebuilding your rental property after a fire vs taking the money and leaving it?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

There are many meanings to the phrase May Day.  Our modern day leftist use it to support communism.  In war it was used to signify an emergency.  As California moves further left the emergency is real.  For every proposition on the ballot to protect proposition 13 the legislature creates propositions to defeat it.  A retired couple who bought their home in Montana in 2005 out the hard way what unlimited property taxes can do to home ownership.  Their 2005 property tax bill was $2,700.  Their 2026 property tax bill is $58,000!  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

California is repeatedly suing the Trump administration for trying to increase gas supplies in California.  Several initiatives have qualified for the November ballot in California.  How will Bonta name them?  One requires voter id and proof of citizenship to vote.  It will probably be named The Voter Suppression Act by our Secretary of State.  The Jarvis initiative to protect Proposition 13 will probably be named the Unfair and Unequal Tax Act.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.  

The California Legislature is back in session.  We are all in trouble.  The most important items they are working on?  Protecting LGBT Rights and affirming children's rights to gender care.  Legislation has been introduced to allow minors up to 20 years to sue any therapist who did not affirm their transition.  Additional legislation has been introduced to make it illegal for hospitals to comply with Federal requests for records relating to sex changing surgeries of minors.  Both of these laws are probably unconstitutional.  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Is AI evil?  The complexity of California's laws protecting tenants requires a spreadsheet to determine what an owner of a rental can or can't do.  Compare the actions of President Trump to save a downed pilot in Iran to Obama and Clinton in Benghazi where all were left to die.  Will California ever admit that the high speed rail from LA to San Francisco is just a money pit so the left can virtue signal?  We discuss all of this and more on this week's Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

As we celebrate this Easter weekend it seems that the world is in the final stages of the spiritual battle described in the Bible.  The left continues to protest any cause that Trump supports.  Often they don't even know why they are protesting.  State Legislatures continue to write additional laws limiting our constitutional rights.  The United States appears to have allied with the King of the North against the King of the South as described by John in Revelations.   These are truly troubling times we live in.  As we celebrate the great gift we received from God in sacrificing his Son Jesus Christ for our sins, we should all spend time with family and reflect on the word of God.  I hope everyone has a blessed peaceful Easter.