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Episode 342: Real Talk 2-28-2026

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Despite doubling the spending on Public Transportation over the past 5 years in California fewer people than ever are using the busses and the trains.  Taxes and fees which are supposed to maintain roads, build new roads and maintain bridges and infrastructure are being used for rider less mass transportation.  The average expenditure per rider per year is nearly $25,000.  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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Episode 341: Real Talk 2-21-2026

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California Democrat Congress members are visiting their districts claiming that the high cost of housing, gas and electricity in California are all caused by Trump and Republicans.  Meanwhile the California legislature is trying to devise ways and reasons to break Proposition 13.  In Nashville Tennessee where there are no protections for property owners one owner made the news because his property tax is going up from $160,000 to $600,000 forcing him to sell his business.  A San Francisco professor claims that Proposition 13 costs the state $43 billion a year in uncollected property taxes.  He further notes that the longer you own a home in California the more disparate the property tax becomes, unfairly helping older white people to keep their homes.  In most red states seniors get major property tax breaks.  In California they are trying to figure out how to tax seniors and force them to sell their homes.  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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Episode 340: Real Talk 2-14-2026

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The Trump administration is removing carbon dioxide from the list of pollutants as designated by the Obama EPA.  CO2 is the gas of life.  We exhale it and plants need it to grow.  The leftists are screaming that Trump is a science denier.  California is threatening to sue and to write their own laws making CO2 poison again in California.  Newsom says that California will start laying tracks this year on the High Speed Choo Choo Train to nowhere.  The truth is that they are nowhere near laying any tracks.  They are just planning to buy the steel.  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.  

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Episode 339: Real Talk 2-7-2026

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For the past 20 years the left has controlled California.  For the last 16 years the Democrats have had a veto proof majority.  During that time their policies have destroyed the once great state.  Farmers are forced to idle their crops.  California has the highest energy prices in the country.  The least affordable housing.  The highest taxes.  Our schools and roads are near the bottom of every measure of achievement and our Governor is going around the country bragging about his abilities to lead.  There is an election coming.  Will California start to turn the pendulum back or double down on stupid.  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Maaske Real Estate

Episode 338: Real Talk 1-31-2026

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California water policy is forcing Westlands Water District to idle 136,000 acres of farmland and plant 100,000 solar panels.  This will be the largest solar farm in the US.  Can Trump take over Los Angeles building permits through his executive order?  What is a Trump Child Savings account?  Can it be used to buy a house?  Can $1,000 turn into $350,000 over 25 years?  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Maaske Real Estate

Episode 337: Real Talk 1-24-2026

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Newsom arrived at Davos with his sugar daddy Alex Soros and brought knee pads.  I wonder if he used them?  Red states are cooperating with ICE and there is no chaos.  Following the law apparently works.  Interest rates stay steady.  Vampire mortgages are coming back from the dead.  Do you have one?  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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Episode 336: Real Talk 1-17-2026

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Agitprop.  The act of agitating and then using media to spread propaganda.  Dictators and socialist regimes have used it for years to form public opinion and destroy resistance to their policies.  The Democrats are now experts at this. Artificially lowering interest rates on credit cards simply limits access to credit. Street journalist are preparing to descend on California to expose the massive fraud in our state.  Newsom told Walz to hold his beer.  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Maaske Real Estate

Episode 335: Real Talk 1-10-2026

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 Leftists claim that the shooting of unarmed Ashley Babbit as she climbed through a window at the Capitol is equivalent to the shooting of a protestor who is hitting an officer of the law with her SUV.  Will prohibiting corporations from buying homes reduce home prices? Will the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage backed securities reduce interest rates?  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate. Listen to Real Talk every Saturday from noon until 1 on Power Talk 96.7 and 1400 AM

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Episode 334: Real Talk 1-3-2026

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We are celebrating 2026, the 250th anniversary of the experiment called the United States of America.  Can we keep our freedom?   Will California move back towards the middle or is California a lost cause?  How will AI impact the next 5 years?  How is AI used in Real Estate.  How do you disclose an AI altered picture of your home for sale?  Is simply editing the picture a reason to disclose?  If you think fraud is bad in Minnesota, Newsom and California say hold my beer!  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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Episode 333: Real Talk 12-27-2025

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The year in reflection.  Will California get tired of bad governance?  Houses are not being rebuilt in LA.  Stricter building codes are being adopted despite promises to freeze the codes.  Gas prices could exceed $10 per gallon within 3 years with the closed refineries.  Electric prices will rise by more than 33% over the next 3 years.  These things are all caused by elected and unelected California policy makers.   We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

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Episode 332: Real Talk 12-20-2025

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How would you describe a state that promotes the sexualization and mutilation of young children?  Is it evil?  Are the proponents of “gender affirming care” just well meaning but misguided?  In this week’s podcast we discuss a young woman who was told at age 12 by a California school counselor that her anorexia and feelings of depression were caused by her being born in the wrong body.   Getting hormone blockers and taking testosterone would help her to cope with her “mental” issues.  At age 15 they cut off her breasts.  The doctors convinced the parents it was the only way to help her overcome her depression.  At age 22 she is now married and has a child.  She is scarred for life and has permanent medical issues. She just read an article in which the “Doctor” who preformed her surgery admits in a interview he was just “winging it”.  All of this was condoned by the State of California.  

We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.

Maaske Real Estate

Episode 331: Real Talk 2-13-2025

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After a 20 year study Berkeley scientists have determined that Native Americans were right.  Controlled burns create healthier forests and reduce air pollution.  Who would have guessed that?  In another 30 year study, the United Nations found that over the last 30 years sea level has only gone up 3 inches.  They then lied and said that is exactly what their models predicted.  (They have been predicting at least 1 foot of sea level rise every 10 years through 2050).  The Federal Reserve reduced interest rates and 30 year mortgage interest rates went slightly higher.  We discuss all of this and more on this week’s Real Talk.  Real Talk is the Right Side of Real Estate.