The Expert Podcast

So you’ve been watching home prices. You’ve been stalking Zillow. You’ve been watching for sale signs. You’re trying to buy a house and you’ve been waiting for prices to ease and get some relief from the skyrocketing prices of homes. And now you’re thinking now’s the time. In this episode, we'll discuss the current mortgage and interest rates across single-family homes and speculate if now its the right time to buy.

So if you erase all of the data on your smartphone, what really happens to the deleted files? In this episode, we'll discuss the process of recovering deleted data such as images and text messages from iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries.

You know vehicle inspections and VIN verifications and DMV procedures may seem bureaucratic but here’s one of the reasons why it’s necessary. In Miami, there was a group of people who were stealing vehicles and using some DMV paperwork loopholes to try to get away with auto theft. They arrested many people for stealing a million dollars worth of cars in Miami. How were they doing it?

If you own an electric vehicle or you’re going to buy one here’s some important information you need to know about the warranty exclusions and exceptions for batteries. Depending on your warranty, there are specific exclusions that state if you do these things, you'll void the warranty on the battery. Given that the battery is the most important part of an EV, not to mention replacements cost upward of $20K, this is crucial to know as an EV owner.

If you leased a vehicle in the last three years you may have found that that turned out to be a very smart money move. In this episode, we'll discuss how dealerships and lenders price leased vehicles and how you can potentially profit from a lease-end buyout.

Uncovering hidden assets is a very common investigative type of case. It’s done for many reasons. Sometimes it’s a business deal gone bad, sometimes it’s a judgment against the person, but more frequently we’re seeing in family law cases and divorce cases where one party is attempting to conceal or diminish assets so that they’re not recoverable by the other party.

The next time you’re driving down the street and you see a police car a tow truck, or even an Uber vehicle, look to see if you notice little devices attached to the vehicle. These look like they’re signal lights but they’re not, these are actually cameras. They are called ALPRs automated license plate readers, or automated license plate recognition. But what do they do?

So are there still incentives for electric vehicles? Do you still get a rebate tax credit? How does it work? Because the inflation reduction act of 2022 has changed the incentives and the available rebates on electric vehicles, many EVs have now been made ineligible for rebates.