Cozy released renter’s insurance last week. A seamless way for renter’s to get renter’s insurance, and landlords to verify their tenants are actually complying with their lease agreement. The percentage of renters who actually carry renter’s insurance is quite low. From the press release: we’ve seen evidence…

When I get pitches from PR pros and founders, it’s often under the pretense that I’m a journalist and my job is to write about their company. They haven’t done their research. If they had, they’d understand I’m not a reporter and have no plans to ever become…

I’m extremely impressed with what I’ve seen from RealScout. Some of you may have watched the interview with Bob Goldberg, conducted by RealScout’s CEO, Andrew Flachner (see his founder interview from 2014 here). If not, head over to Facebook and watch it here. The fact Andrew…

When I first heard the news that someone in Illinios was suing Zillow over a bad Zestimate, my gut was it was a complete frivolous lawsuit that would result in nothing other than wasting both time and money by both parties. Turns out I was right….

In our newest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we are speaking with Stefan Peterson, founder of Zavvie. Without further ado… What do you do? Over the past 5 years, we’ve developed an online hyperlocal marketing solution focused on generating listings in specific neighborhoods. This grew out of 8z…

Nextdoor recently launched an ad product targeted at agents. A couple weeks ago, they took the next step and added real estate sections to neighborhoods in select cities (greater Atlanta area, Austin, San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, and…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Sarnen Steinbarth, founder of TurboTenant. Without further ado… What do you do? I am the founder of TurboTenant, a landlord myself, and a property education instructor. I founded TurboTenant out of a passion for mitigating…

Thank you to our August sponsors… TurboTenant helps independent landlords improve the investment performance of their properties by offering them access to online tools, previously only available to large property management companies. More than 40,000 landlords across the U.S. turn to TurboTenant for free, online solutions…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Aleksandr Lanin, founder of Hasten. Without further ado… What do you do? Hasten is a leading virtual staging company in NYC and I am the CEO of Hasten. Our team of highly qualified professionals has built…

I was privileged to take part in the “Hack the App” session during the Inman Connect event last week.   It gave me some insights into alternative ways of building products for the real estate sector and particularly the role open source could play in…