Where What When: We are here today with financial planner Eitan Schuchman to talk about the lifecycle of investment from a young age all the way until old age and beyond. Thank you, Eitan, for joining us; we hope this will be an informative discussion. First of all, what exactly do you do and what is your background?

Eitan Schuchman: I was born and raised here in beautiful Baltimore. We are old-school “Bal’more Hon,” a long-time intergenerational TA and BY family. After marriage, my wife Ariella (from Philly, the “other Bohm” family) and I chose to further strengthen that legacy by sending our six children through the system.

Regarding my career, after my BS, I went to the University of Maryland to earn my MBA and started my career at the investment firm Bear Stearns in New York City. I am a certified financial planner and a chartered financial consultant. I help individuals, married couples, and companies achieve their financial dreams, or at least get them to the next level in realizing their dreams. We do that by planning. There are many aspects to it, and we bring the best experts in the field together to make sure that my clients are in the best shape moving forward.

WWW: Today we have Broker/Owner/Realtor of Pickwick Realty, David Wealcatch, with us. Thank you, David, for taking the time to discuss what real estate currently looks like in Baltimore. Can you tell us generally what the home buying process entails for a first-time home buyer? You have young people, people in Pickwick, who have never looked into buying a house. What should they expect?

WWW: Let me begin by saying thank you so much for joining us; we appreciate your time. I guess we will jump right in to the most pressing thing on everyone’s mind: COVID. You were just inaugurated. How do you think the city has handled COVID so far, and what do you think you can do better in the future as mayor?

Scott: I think that we have really done a good job of handling COVID thus far, under the leadership of the city health commissioner, Dr. Dzirasa, who is doing a fantastic job. But, yes, there’s always room for improvement. We are, first and foremost, going to continue following the advice of the public health professionals. I also want to say that I feel lucky to be mayor of the city that has 11 hospitals. It has Johns Hopkins, which is leading the world in COVID research. We also have University of Maryland Medical System; we are using them as well to help influence what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.

We’re going to communicate more frequently with the public, and we’re going to try to be more nimble in sending credible messages out into communities. We need to have the well-respected folks in the neighborhoods, including within the Orthodox Jewish community, carry the message so that it is reaching everyone and so that people understand how important this is and trust us as we move through this very trying time – especially as we prepare for the vaccine rollout.