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The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 790 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm no tech genius, but I knew if I wanted my business to crush it, I needed a website now.
0:05.8	Thankfully, Bluehost made it easy.
0:07.7	I customized, optimized, and monetized everything exactly how I wanted with AI.
0:12.4	In minutes, my site was up.
0:14.0	I couldn't believe it.
0:15.2	The search engine tools even helped me get more site visitors.
0:18.3	Whatever your passion project is, you can set it up with Bluehost. With their 30-day money-back guarantee, what do you got to lose? Head to bluehost.com. That's B-L-U-E-H-O-S-T dot com to start now. So my family's been in real estate for five generations. I started the Oppenhan Group real estate brokerage, done about $4 to $5 billion in transaction volume.
0:39.1	So I feel like my experience helps me to see what comes next.
0:43.0	People are arguing now that we're in a real estate bubble.
0:45.6	We've had arguably the worst three years ever in real estate.
0:49.1	Interest rates keep climbing.
0:50.7	Volume is at a historic low.
0:52.1	When I say historic low, I mean, 50, 60 years.
0:55.4	Do you think buying a home is worth it at today's prices?
0:58.3	All these areas that blew up, Miami, Austin, Las Vegas, Nashville, I wouldn't get near those places.
1:05.6	Do you think California is doomed?
1:07.1	When any one party gets too much control, they veer off track.
1:27.9	California is veered off track because it's been dominated too long by people that don't have any pushback and there's really no debate. We spent $24 billion over the last eight years and the problem's gotten about 40 to 50% worse. So what's your investing philosophy for 2025 and 2026?
1:28.9	What are you doing with your money?
1:30.1	People overanalyze.
1:32.1	It's pretty common sense right now.
1:39.1	In terms of the real estate market,
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