[Note from editor: The Geek Estate Mastermind is a real estate tech think-tank comprised of 200+ founders, executives, VCs, and practitioners. Our mission is to attract the 1,500 most forward-thinking, and diverse, innovators. Below is a sample of one of the in-depth category reviews from our…

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….

[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…

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…

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…

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…

[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…

[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…

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…

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…