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Welcome to passive real estate investing.

I'm your host, Marco Santorelli.

And I want to give a shout out to all of you

listeners out there in 152 countries. Thank you for being a listener. It's going to be. of you the world and especially here in the US. So what will 2017 bring especially for us

real estate investors and people who just follow the real estate environment?

Well today I want to bring on a guest who I've known for a while and I keep bumping into him here and there.

He's an author and a real estate guru of sorts. His name is Greg Rand and he's written a great book but he likes to look at real estate through the

policy political and economic and environmental lens so he has an interesting

perspective on things and I think you're really going to enjoy today's

episode but you know in less than two weeks we have president-elect Donald Trump taking

over the Oval Office so what will that mean to us How is that going to change the environment?

Well, I really don't know and I don't think anybody really knows because I've always said that

Donald Trump, although he has a lot of great business and marketing qualities, he's also a wild card.

So there's a lot of uncertainty about this new political regime that's coming into Washington.

But at the same time, he's a guy who really understands a lot of things about business and I don't know you got to look at the tax structure that we have in place and what that could potentially change into

There are predictions out there that home prices will go up. There are comments and

suggestions that he will make industry friendly policy changes that will improve not only the

economy in general, but real estate more

specifically and one of those big things that are just floating out there and have

been for a long time is the whole Dodd-Frank Act It's a bill that is just jammed full of regulation.

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