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Rick Kaplan host of NEREJ/NYREJ Podcast interviews Or Sapir with Motivatedsellers.com. Or talks about hour his website is for real estate sellers and buyers across the USA. Motivatedsellers.com works for quick sales and finds investors, wholesalers or any type buyers.

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Rick Kaplan host of the NEREJ/NYREJ podcast interviews Alex Taylor of CommercializeIQ. www.commercializeIQ

Commercial real estate is entering a period where AI and technology are going to materially change how people work, make decisions, and operate portfolios, but I think a lot of the conversation is still either too theoretical or too focused on the technology itself.

I’d like to have a practical discussion about what is actually changing inside CRE, where AI is useful today, where the hype gets ahead of reality, and how owners, operators, developers, retailers, and asset managers should be thinking about the next several years. There is a much bigger conversation here than any one product or platform.

I’ve spent 15+ years at the intersection of commercial real estate and technology. I’ve built and scaled multiple multi-million-dollar PropTech companies, had three successful startup exits, and I’m now in my fourth founder/co-founder seat.

What makes my perspective a little different is that I’m not coming at CRE as a software outsider. I’ve also been a commercial real estate owner, investor, developer, and operator. I’ve sat on both sides of the table, building technology for the industry while also living the operational problems that technology is supposed to solve.

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Rick Kaplan Host of NEREJ/NYREJ Podcast guest is Jerry Donnini founder and CEO of SalesTaxHelper. www.salestaxhelper.com

Jerry built his career helping businesses navigate complex sales and use tax matters. My work includes audit defense, disputes, appeals, litigation, nexus and multi-state compliance issues. I regularly work with businesses facing state revenue agencies and help them understand their exposure, respond strategically and develop more defensible processes going forward. My experience gives me a firsthand perspective on the mistakes businesses commonly make, how tax issues escalate and the practical steps organizations can take to reduce risk.

Jerry discusses the sales tax issues that commercial real estate operators, property-related businesses and companies operating across multiple states should have on their radar. Topics could include how sales tax nexus is changing, common compliance mistakes, what can trigger an audit, what actually happens once a state revenue agency begins asking questions and how businesses can prepare before they find themselves in a costly dispute. I can also share practical examples of where businesses tend to get caught off guard and what a more proactive, defensible approach to sales tax looks like.

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Rick Kaplan host of NEREJ/NYREJ Podcast interviews Andy Carballeira of Acentech. https://www.acentech.com/team-member/andrew-carballeira/

Andy would provide interesting insight to NEREJ's audience of developers, owners, architects, and construction professionals. Sound is often an 'after-thought' in AEC design, which can often lead to costly over-runs. Andy enjoys translating technical topics such as acoustics, sound isolation, and environmental noise control into practical insights for architects, owners, and developers.

Andy will be discussing acoustics and noise & vibration control, perhaps in a general way, such as 'how sound impacts the success of buildings and communities' - or tailored to more specific sub-topics if desired.

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Rick Kaplan host of NEREJ/NYREJ Podcast Interviews Roddy De La Garza of Roddy De La Garza Real Estate Group at Epique.
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Roddy says he thinks commercial real estate professionals are having an important conversation about markets, technology and production, but not enough conversation about the person doing the producing.

My book, Above Asking: Daily Mindwork for Real Estate Professionals, is built around what I call agent wholeness and reflective practice: learning to build a successful career without being trapped in the continual search for more transactions, more recognition, more leads and more validation.

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Rick Kaplan host of NEREJ NYREJ Podcast interviews Joshua Lee Smith of Bowditch & Dewey. www.bowditch.com

Joshua will discuss issues in real estate and the market itself. With experience across a wide variety of areas, including multifamily, industrial, higher education and public utility, I believe I can bring a unique perspective to the podcast.

Joshua will also explain the change in the Massachusetts amendments to the zoning act

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Rick Kaplan host of NEREJ/ NYREJ Podcast interviews Mark Pelletier of Maugel DeStefano Architects interview NEREJ/NYREJ Podcast.
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Mark is an owner and principal of Maugel DeStefano Architects. He leads the firm's multifamily design studio, which currently has over 3,000 units of housing in design and under development. Much of the studio's activity is in the City of Worcester and surrounding towns, Windsor CT and suburbs of Boston.

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Rick Kaplan host of NEREJ/ NYREJ Podcast interviews Jim Brady of Fathom Companies. fathom.com

Jim talks about his interesting Journey and his company a fully integrated real estate development, equity investment, and hospitality management firm based in Portland, Maine. An institutional-grade developer with decades of experience navigating the New England market, Jim specializes in complex historic preservation, high-design adaptive reuse, and sustainable market innovations. Beyond his corporate footprint, Jim is a former Olympic Silver Medalist in sailing, bringing a unique, high-stakes navigation and risk-management mindset directly into structural engineering and urban development. Under his leadership, Fathom has built a reputation for creating immense civic equity through deeply curated properties—most notably the award-winning adaptive reuse of The Press Hotel (the landmark, century-old former Portland Press Herald headquarters)—and Fathom is preparing to manage Vermont's milestone first-ever Marriott Tribute Portfolio asset, the all-electric, net-zero Sugar House Hotel.