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Phil is an international tax lawyer. Home is in Pasadena, CA. Clients are all over the world. Yes, he’s of those people you read about, setting up foreign trusts and other weird stuff in small palm-fronded countries. His clients like U.S. real estate, although at the moment they are just kicking tires. Phil makes complex tax stuff easy to understand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sounds like a giant killer to me. Let’s give him a big axe and see what he can do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Phil Hodgen has been a friend of BloodhoundBlog for a long time. He’s an international tax attorney working out of Pasadena, so why would he be reading the dawgs? Marketing and iconoclasm, the only two things we actually understand. At Chris Johnson’s suggestion, he joins us today. Here’s his bio: Phil is an international tax […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-investment","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7923,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7923\/handling-a-deal-with-a-foreign-buyer-or-seller\/","url_meta":{"origin":7914,"position":0},"title":"Handling a deal with a foreign buyer or seller","author":"Phil Hodgen","date":"April 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I am an international tax lawyer. I handle lots of real estate transactions with foreign sellers and buyers. I don't have a real estate license, and I don't ask for a piece of the commission. Got that out of the way for ya, didn't I? Here are a few things\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8815,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8815\/8815\/","url_meta":{"origin":7914,"position":1},"title":"The mortgage situation for nonresident buyers","author":"Phil Hodgen","date":"June 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom Vanderwall chimes in here on BHB regularly and helpfully about the mortgage situation. I look forward to his interpretation of the spins we get from DJ Bernake and crew. I handle foreign real estate transactions and here's what I'm seeing right now. 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