If you don’t currently offer a tenant portal to your renters, the COVID-19 situation currently disrupting the world brings to light several reasons why you might reconsider. For the most part, landlords and property managers who already communicate and interact with tenants online are facing…

I’m an independent broker in the very competitive Newport Beach, CA market.  As an independent broker and one man show, I wear a lot of hats: realtor, broker, SEO expert (I use this term very loosely), blogger, a transaction coordinator, bookkeeper, marketer, graphic designer… well…

I’m a web developer, and until four months ago I knew exactly nothing about real estate technology. I was looking for a new project to work on, and met with a real estate broker who was pitching me on her idea for a checklist app…

As an agent, a broker, or a technologist, you probably interact with a world of small vendors who provide one or a few software services and do it well.  I’ll call these micro-vendors, as opposed to vendors, who provide a whole suite of services. For…

Is one of your primary goals this year to become paperless and thereby more efficient? Have you considered the security of the provider you are assessing? For most Real Estate Brokers when you bring up the word Security regarding their online transactions, it is one…

Automating your business processes can help you be more profitable, efficient and scalable.  It does so by using software or outsourced labor to take care of some of the work you have to do, so that you can focus on other pieces of work that…

I’ve mentioned the idea of a hired real estate CTO twice over the past few months (here & here)…and it’s now officially available. We are currently working with 1 beta client to iron out the concept, and will only take 1 brokerage client per market. Click…

So you’ve recently purchased the latest product or technology that’s going to revolutionize your business. You’ve done your due diligence. Check references and are looking forward to implementation. You are excited about seeing the fulfillment of all the promises made by the sales person who…

As a real estate agent in Chicago, I don’t touch paper unless it’s the check that closes a deal. Ever. It doesn’t matter what needs to be signed – it’s all signed on the digital line. An agent since 2002, I began the process of…

I stopped into Starbucks on Monday morning before heading to the office and seated inside were 8 of my Agents conducting business. – Broker, Austin, Texas. The Realization This one visit to Starbucks prompted this very successful Broker/Owner to go back and conduct an internal…