Your adjudicated newspaper for Riverside County desert PRESORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID Desert Hot Springs, CA STAR PERMIT NO 00005 How Technology Is Reshaping and Reinventing The Real Estate Frontier see page 2 W E E K L Y Friday, September 13, 2019 Vol. 15 No. 71 Calling all Angels! By Desert Star Staff experience an intimate evening Train perform for us,” said For 16 years, Wine children in foster care in SAN DIEGO, CA – Tickets with Train as they perform to a Walden CEO Teresa Stivers. D’Vine has been Walden’s Southern California, and are on sale for San Francisco- limited number of guests. 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In his grandmother really believed flashbacks, we see the young in him and encouraged boy being rebuffed by his him to study music. cold, aloof father who pushes When the film begins, him away, even though it is Elton is in group therapy, and evident that Reggie wants to as usual, he makes a grand be noticed and accepted by entrance wearing an outlandish his dad. Soon his parent’s sequined outfit with feathered divorce and he is left in the red wings more suitable care of his mother Sheila for a stage performance (Bryce Dallas Howard). While than a therapy session. she supports his musical gifts, As he talks about his life, the film focuses on his boyhood Continues on Page 3 How Technology Is Reshaping and Reinventing The Real Estate Frontier By Desert Star Staff change for the real estate How you buy or rent industry that’s comparable property – and how others to what happened in the late sell or lease it to you – is in 1800s when innovations in the midst of dramatic change, construction technology helped the kind perhaps not seen in make building skyscrapers the real estate world since possible and profitable. the birth of the skyscraper “The ways in which real in the 19th century. estate gets bought, sold, The reason: property leased, financed, appraised, technology or “PropTech,” designed and managed already which is a collective term have changed dramatically used to define startups in recent years,” Aarons offering technologically says. “And you can expect innovative products or PropTech to drive even more new business models for changes, and at a fast pace.” the real estate markets. Block and Aarons PropTech could even alter say that’s a good thing for who wins and who loses in consumers, for the industry present real estate as a listing service.” As technology have the means to replace their the real estate profession. – and for those working in service, not a product, which makes such information exclusive access to the MLS “Some who don’t embrace real estate who are willing increasingly gives them an readily available, those who with perhaps something better real estate technology will be to adapt. Some of the edge over the competition.” can differentiate themselves – a forward-looking online dragged along, forced to up many changes and benefits Availability of data. The in such areas as good deal- advertising strategy, a suite of their game by vendors and PropTech is creating are: growing transparency and making skills and smarter powerful digital tools, and a clients,” says Aaron Block, Energy savings. One key availability of real estate data strategies stand to make comparative marketing analysis co-author with Zach Aarons benefit of PropTech is the has a democratizing effect more money, Aarons says. that harnesses data in ways of PropTech 101: Turning potential cost savings involved and makes providing good Efficiency. In the past, their competitors’ CMAs don’t. Chaos into Cash Through with energy. “Detailed data service more important than commercial real estate “The fact that real estate Real Estate Innovation (www. about how a space is used, ever, Aarons says. “Much of brokerages had to spend a lot managed to insulate itself from proptech101.com). “They may lighted, cooled, and heated, the commercial brokers’ value of time and resources gathering technological advances and discover one day that they are and the ability to automate used to lie in their relationships information and plugging it innovations for longer than well behind the competition. or remotely control the built with other brokers and their into spreadsheets. Now they most industries only means Some of them won’t survive.” environment, make for a access to information,” he can devote that time to deeper that the pace of change is Block and Aarons, co- powerful combination,” Block says. “Residential sales agents market analysis, planning, that much faster now,” Aarons founders of MetaProp, a says. “This sort of information were hired in part because and strategy, Block says. says. “The good news is that, leading PropTech venture and analysis moves landlords they had deep local knowledge Meanwhile, residential sales for those willing to embrace capital firm, say that PropTech and management closer to the and exclusive access to a agents who are willing and able innovation, there is a future is creating far-reaching customer, allowing them to jealously guarded multiple- to adapt to innovations will rife with opportunity.” for his work’s impressive complicated social and political Saturday October 5 - 7:30PM realism. Realism is the issues that are embedded Sunday October 6 - 2:00PM practice of representing in daily life. Twelve Angry Friday October 11 - 7:30PM 12 Angry Men people, things, or situations Men is a prime example of Saturday October 12- 7:30PM By Desert Star Staff Rose turned to writing after accurately (realistically), as Rose’s ‘slice of life’ style. Sunday October 13 - 2:00PM The stakes are high in this his time in the military and they appear and occur in real Michael Pacas directs the RUNTIME: 120 minutes classic courtroom drama set began as a publicity writer life. His work was described talents of: Ed Lefkowitz, Lee with a 15-minute intermission. in a New York Jury room in and advertising copywriter for as offering a ‘slice of life’ to Padick, Jerry Prager, Stan Online: www.dtworks.org the late 1950’s on a very hot Warner Brothers Pictures. In viewers. In other words, the Jenson, Miguel Arballo, Patrick TICKETS: summer day, where a jury of 1950, he wrote his first teleplay, teleplays or other programs Sawyer, Brian Johnson, Larry (Reserved Seating) twelve men are deciding the Bus to Nowhere, and sold offered realistic glimpses into Dyekman, Ron Young, Stephen $32 General Admission fate of a teenager. The verdict it to the live CBS dramatic everyday happenings. Despite Blackwell, and Tim Cagney. - $30 Senior/Military - is nearly unanimous when a anthology program, Studio this everyday subject matter, SHOWTIMES: $25 18 and Under. single dissenter forces them One. Four years later, he wrote Rose’s writing grappled with Friday October 4 - 7:30PM to face their own prejudices his best-known work, Twelve and unite their conflicting Angry Men, for Studio One. personalities in a final verdict. Reginald Rose also wrote Now, the latest version of for programs such as The the classic comes to the Twilight Zone, The Defenders, Newspapers are vital Desert Theatreworks stage. and other programs on all to democracy. 12 Angry Men was three of the major networks written by Army Veteran, First from the 1950s to 1980s. Lieutenant, Reginald Rose. Rose was applauded Thankfully, some state lawmakers appreciate this. Now they need to follow through and approve Assembly Bill 170 this week. California newspapers – not just your crucial role of holding the powerful helping newspapers, carriers and the hometown daily paper but smaller accountable. communities they serve. The failure papers for underserved communities – of the Legislature to act would be a could soon face a devastating nancial But Assembly Bill 170 would delay this tipping point in the history of California blow. Under a far-reaching bill that crippling of the free press in California.