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A New Geek Estate Path: Smaller is Better

A New Geek Estate Path: Smaller is Better

There’s immense power in being comfortable in your own skin. And I mean immense. It brings clarity. It enables prioritization. It eliminates FOMO. It gives you a path to follow. It allows you to measure success. Perhaps, most importantly, it enables you to say no….

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The Undisrupted: A Portrait of Blue Collar America

The Undisrupted: A Portrait of Blue Collar America

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Transmission for 165+ Geek Estate Mastermind members that consists of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample of one of the…

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Will Consumers Embrace iBuyers?

Will Consumers Embrace iBuyers?

I’m a perpetual skeptic of “real estate disrupters”. I believe that Redfin and the other discount brokerages pick at the ~5% margin of sellers who would rather save 1% than have a good experience selling their homes. The massive boom of iBuyers seem to pick…

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Pricing Models and Negotiating Tips for Brokers & Vendors in Real Estate

Pricing Models and Negotiating Tips for Brokers & Vendors in Real Estate

Pricing is never easy. Especially as a vendor approaching the real estate industry. Having done this a few times for various levels of the industry (and as a buyer from the broker side), either at Trulia, RealScout or now at LocalLogic, it’s always a fun…

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Product Category Reviews for Small Landlord Prop Mgmt Software & Avail Reaching 100,000 Landlords

Product Category Reviews for Small Landlord Prop Mgmt Software & Avail Reaching 100,000 Landlords

As the next step on our mission to help Geek Estate Mastermind members build wildly successful real estate companies, we launched something new: a category product review of companies in a particular industry space. The goal is to help generate ideas, analyze what’s working, figure…

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Certainty as a Service

Certainty as a Service

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Transmission for Geek Estate Mastermind members that consists of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample Transmission.] Certainty as a Service…

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Airbnb’s Official Arrival as a Real Estate Company

Airbnb’s Official Arrival as a Real Estate Company

[Note from editor: This is adapted from this week’s Weekly Radar for Geek Estate Mastermind members. Given it’s industry significance, I thought it worthwhile to publish publicly.] Airbnb will start designing and building housing prototypes in 2019 as part of Backyard, a new Samara project announced…

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The Reincarnation of Geek Build, in Collaboration with RealSavvy (#1)

The Reincarnation of Geek Build, in Collaboration with RealSavvy (#1)

We’re launching a new Geek Estate Blog series. Geek Build II, an agent/broker website and marketing hackathon. It will span 2018-2019 and be a collaboration with RealSavvy (who has been a strategic sponsor of the blog the last few months). Those of you who have been reading…

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Ready Player One – What’s real is REal

Ready Player One – What’s real is REal

Have you ever walked a home the second time with a client and it just all clicks? Perhaps on the first showing day you all liked the home, it struck a chord but your client hadn’t really let themselves fall just yet. Tense, nervous energy…

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How Seattle can become a global leader in Real Estate and Construction Tech (+ Seattle Proptech Market Map)

How Seattle can become a global leader in Real Estate and Construction Tech (+ Seattle Proptech Market Map)

Last night, I spoke as a panelist on one of the real estate tech tracks as part of Seattle Startup Week. The topic was how Seattle can emerge as the global leader at the intersection of Fintech, Real Estate Tech and Digital Construction. It’s no…

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