[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Radar for Geek Estate Mastermind members with a range of curated links and analysis/commentary that comes out every Friday morning along with member news to peruse. This is a summary for the month of May.]

Mastermind Summary

May had three events: a happy hour mixer in San Francisco, drinks in Chicago, and a Seattle lunch. We were excited to unveil our first dive into Blue Collar markets: Brian Adams’ wrote “The Undisrupted: A Portrayal of Blue Collar America.”

– Drew Meyers

New Members

• Michael Beckerman from CREtech
• Ronald Huiskamp from RelocationOnline
• Aaron Smith from Next Door Photos
• Calvin Cooper from Rhove
• Trevor Marticke from RealtyAds
• Michael Davidovich from API Nation
• Marnie Blanco from dotloop
• Mario Corona from Land on Earth
• Greg Robertson from W&R Studios
• David Herrmann from Sun Number
• Nikki Greenberg from Women in PropTech
• Blake Miller from Homebase
• Audie Chamberlain from LION & ORB
• Karen Abram from dashCMA
• Aman Daro from Red Oak Realty
• Trevor Mauch from Carrot
• Justin Bonney from Coldwell Banker
• Will Moyer from Zoe / Geek Estate Labs
• Rory Reiff from Zoe / Geek Estate Labs

Member News

• Chuck Hattemer spoke at Tech Estate Today in SF, and wrote a Medium article from the presentation, concluding, “Full-stack real estate services are the next frontier in Proptech.”
• Congrats to Alex Allison for the announcement of  D. Alexander, a New Home Hotel Collection.
• Pascal Wagner and the Walkthrough team have joined forces with PlanOmatic.
• Well done Simon Chen, for securing ERA Real Estate’s Relationship With HomeAdvisor To Create Concierge Access to Service Providers.
• Congrats to Russ Cofano for starting a new team at Windermere.
• Congrats to Restb.ai for their deal with MRED to Become First Multiple Listing Service to Launch Artificial Intelligence Services
• Congrats to David Chesnosky for his new role with Compass.
• Revaluate released a white paper independently verified by Altos Research that says their “Likely to Move” Prediction Technology has a success rate of 19.5%.
• Module completed their first modular house, the Latham House in Pittsburgh. You can view it here.
• Eric Stegemann was Greg Robertson’s guest on the latest episode of Listing Bits.
• Lane Hornung’s brokerage, 8z Real Estate in Colorado, has expanded into iBuying.
• FBS was selected as one of 25 Forbes Magazines Small Giants, companies led by purpose-driven leaders. Congrats Michael Wurzer.

Transmission Topics

• Trading-In Contingencies
• The Last Of The Listing Lead
• Flipping the iBuyer Proposition
• A Luxury Market Failure Can Be A Boon for Blue Collar America
• The Undisrupted: A Portrait of Blue Collar America

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