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Is Real Estate A Place to Live or Invest?

Going back 50+ years a majority of our parents and grandparents bought homes with the sole intentions of living there, raising a family and paying off a mortgage. Now, investing in a home’s resale value is a topic most everyone thinks about, especially when it’s your first home. Joe looks back at real estate’s transition from simply being a place to live to being a place where you could live and invest. Specific topics include:…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 26, 2017 / Tagged with 1970, 1980, 1990, 70s, 80s, 90s, american, area, bay, bobbi, buddy, buy, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, disruption, equity, estate, first, funding, hold, home, house, intero, investment, joe, live, loss, market, mike, mortgage, new, payment, podcast, portfolio, property, rates, real, realtor, rent, reradio, rerl, resale, risk, sale, saupe, sell, silicon, sotheby's, stay, valley, value / Posted in General, Joe Cucchiara, Podcast

What Questions To Ask When Interviewing and Hiring a Realtor and Lender

There are two things you definitely know if you are a long time listener of our show. 1) The market is crazy right now thanks to low inventory and high demand; and 2) we are always stressing the importance of hiring the right team of trusted professionals. In today’s podcast Joe and Mike simulate a typical interview with a realtor or lender to help us figure out who makes the perfect fit for your group…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 25, 2017 / Tagged with advertising, advertized, american, area, bay, bobbi, buddy, buyer, clara, commission, communication, county, cucchiara, dambrosio, deal, decker, escrow, estate, ethics, family, fannie, freddie, funding, home, house, internet, intero, interview, inventory, investor, joe, jumbo, list, listing, loan, mac, mae, market, marketing, mike, mls, mortgage, new, offer, plan, podcast, price, process, property, qualify, questions, real, realtor, references, referral, reradio, rerl, reserves, sale, santa, saupe, seller, silicon, single, sotheby's, testimonials, valley, zillow / Posted in General, Joe Cucchiara, Mike D'Ambrosio, Podcast

Cindy Carey Stops By to Discuss How We Can Help Save the Bees and More

Cindy Carey rejoins Mike in the studio once again bringing her vast wealth of knowledge to our show. Today Mike finds out about all the new projects Starburst Construction is working on and issues they are running into. Specific topics include: Health and safety testing Our nationwide shortage of construction workers Earth Day- How you can help save the bees! Queen of the Sun Green building and tax credits To contact Mike D’Ambrosio you can…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 25, 2017 / Tagged with Insurance, american, area, asbestos, association, bay, bees, bobbi, buddy, building, cheerios, colonies, construction, credit, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, eichler, estate, food, funding, green, grown, health, hive, home, honey, house, industry, intero, joe, lead, locally, mike, mold, mortgage, nari, national, nationwide, new, of, organic, pesticides, podcast, pollination, property, queen, real, realtor, regulations, remodel, remodeling, reradio, rerl, safety, saupe, shortage, silicon, sotheby's, source, starburst, sun, sustainable, tax, the, valley / Posted in General, Mike D'Ambrosio, Podcast

Top 10 Downsizing Tips with Helen Ingwersen

There is no way I can do this… What am I going to do with all of this stuff… I’ll never finish… What if I have to give away things that I love… We can help you feel THIS excited about downsizing…almost! These are some of the most common concerns that arise when the subject of the “D” word comes up – downsizing. But just as with everything else in life – whether you think…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 21, 2017 / Tagged with american, area, assisted, bay, bobbi, buddy, change, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, downsizing, elderly, emotion, emotional, estate, facility, funding, grandparent, home, house, intero, joe, lifestyle, living, management, memories, mike, mortgage, move, moving, new, packing, parent, plan, planning, podcast, property, real, realtor, reradio, rerl, saupe, scale, scaling, senior, silicon, sotheby's, strategy, stress, top, valley / Posted in Bobbi Decker, General, Joe Cucchiara, Podcast

[podcast] The Real Estate Transaction Needs Your Feedback

A lot of research and more than half a billion dollars (and growing) go into disrupting the largely outdated real estate industry. During today’s podcast Joe poses questions and asks for your feedback on the thought processes and components that occur through every stage of a real estate transaction. Is the home search, price or constructing the team the most important part of a purchase or sale? Where do you need the most help from…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 20, 2017 / Tagged with american, and, appraisal, approved, area, bay, bobbi, buddy, by, commission, communication, conditions, costs, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, documents, email, escrow, estate, fees, for, fsbo, funding, home, house, important, internet, intero, joe, lending, listings, mike, mls, mortgage, negotiate, negotiation, new, offer, online, owner, podcast, property, qualified, questions, real, realtor, reradio, rerl, research, rocket, sale, saupe, search, silicon, sotheby's, statistics, studies, study, technology, title, transaction, under, valley, writer / Posted in General, Joe Cucchiara, Podcast

[podcast] Unconventional Financing To Make Your Ownership Goals A Reality

It’s easy to get discouraged and forget about home ownership or investment properties looking at today’s crazy purchase market. It may seem even worse when misleading information and conventional purchasing programs seem to be pushing your goals further out of reach every time you turn around. Today we are asking you to ignore these negative thoughts because once again Joe comes in with alternate financing programs that could make your ownership goals a reality again….

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 19, 2017 / Tagged with alternatives, american, area, asset, assets, bay, bobbi, bridge, buddy, child, children, collateralizing, conventional, cross, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, depletion, deposit, disabled, dissipation, down, equity, estate, fannie, fargo, financing, freddie, funding, government, guidelines, home, house, intero, investor, ira, joe, kid, lien, loan, mac, mae, market, mike, mortgage, new, occupied, owner, ownership, parents, payment, penalties, penalty, pledging, podcast, properties, property, purchase, qualify, real, realtor, rental, reradio, rerl, retired, saupe, silicon, sotheby's, traditional, valley, wells / Posted in General, Joe Cucchiara, Podcast

State of the Market with Justin Moles

Stewart Title Sales Manager, Justin Moles, drops for today’s podcast as he joins Joe and Mike for a State of the Market type of show. Our hosts start out with a discussion on the improved inventory and the emergence of appraisal challenges. Also in discussion: What is Title and Escrow and why we have it Santa Clara County Title companies vs. San Francisco Combating transaction fraud To contact Mike D’Ambrosio you can visit his website…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 18, 2017 / Tagged with Insurance, american, appraisal, area, bay, bobbi, buddy, card, cash, credit, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, email, encrypt, encrypted, escrow, estate, firewall, fraud, funding, hack, home, house, intero, inventory, joe, lines, lot, market, mike, mortgage, new, podcast, premium, property, real, realtor, reradio, rerl, saupe, scam, secured, silicon, sotheby's, technology, title, valley, value, wire / Posted in General, Joe Cucchiara, Mike D'Ambrosio, Podcast

Mike discusses all things Intero with CEO and Founder Tom Tognoli

Joining Mike in studio today is Intero Real Estate Founder and CEO, Tom Tognoli. With him, Tom brings all the latest and exciting news about Intero’s domination of the Silicon Valley market. Mike and Tom discuss recent expansions Intero has made as well as their ongoing quest to better serve agents and customers. Also in discussion: Intero Foundation Berkshire Hathaway and Intero’s relationship with them Investing in real estate tech companies including Kukun, RealScout, rentLever,…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 17, 2017 / Tagged with american, angel, area, bay, bobbi, buddy, city, cloud, commercial, cucchiara, daly, dambrosio, decker, development, email, estate, expansion, foundation, francisco, funding, home, house, intero, investing, joe, kukun, lake, lever, listing, management, mike, mortgage, new, nextdoor, platform, podcast, property, proxio, real, realscout, realtor, remodel, rent, rental, reradio, rerl, roi, san, saupe, silicon, sotheby's, sunnyvale, tahoe, technology, tognoli, tom, vacation, valley / Posted in General

Helpful Real Estate Do’s & Don’ts

Let’s face it – sometimes the rules for success in real estate seem as clear as mud! With changing industry regulations, increasing competition, decreasing affordability and unpredictably volatile rates – you may feel like the guidelines of the game create more chaos than clarity. The goods news is…that’s why we are here! In this Friday’s podcast, Joe and I will take our gazillion years of experience plus the current market conditions and give you a…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 14, 2017 / Tagged with 401k, agency, american, area, association, bay, bobbi, buddy, buyer, children, condo, contingency, contingent, credit, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, deposit, dodd, donts, dos, estate, facebook, frank, fraud, funding, hoa, home, house, income, internet, intero, investor, ira, job, joe, laws, lender, lending, litigation, loan, market, media, mike, mortgage, new, online, owner, podcast, preapproved, prequalified, property, real, realtor, refinance, regulations, remodel, reradio, rerl, rule, sabotage, saupe, security, seller, silicon, , sotheby's, townhouse, twitter, underwriter, valley, work / Posted in Bobbi Decker, General, Joe Cucchiara, Podcast

Basics of Investing with Scott Poncetta

Over the 7+ years of hosting RERL, it’s quite easy for Joe to say that real estate investing is the topic that gathers the most interest from our listeners. And if you’ve invested in real estate in Silicon Valley over the last 30-50 years, you could say your investment has turned out well. Today Keller Williams Investment and Income Property specialist, Scott Poncetta, returns to help us better understand the basics of investing. Specific topics include:…

Posted by Real Estate Radio LIVE / / April 13, 2017 / Tagged with 1031, american, apartment, appreciation, area, bay, bobbi, buddy, building, cap, commercial, cucchiara, dambrosio, decker, estate, flipping, funding, gains, home, house, interest, intero, investment, joe, land, leverage, leveraging, market, mike, mortgage, new, podcast, primary, property, rate, real, realtor, rent, rental, reradio, rerl, residence, residential, saupe, secondary, silicon, sotheby's, stock, valley / Posted in General, Joe Cucchiara, Podcast