[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: Avail.] Avail enables DIY landlords to easily manage their properties. Their product streamlines online rental listings, applications, lease templates, rental payments, maintenance requests, and tenant vetting. Scales with landlords…

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 previously mentioned our product category product reviews for the small landlord property management sector. As the next step on our mission to help Geek Estate Mastermind members build wildly successful real estate companies, the goal is to help generate ideas, analyze what’s working, figure…

[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…

As an independent landlord, I’ve learned the ups and downs of landlording, and the tips and hacks I’ve discovered are musts for novice and seasoned landlords. The rental space is crowded, and it can be hard to compete with big corporate landlords. When I had…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Frank Barletta from UpTop. Without further ado… Who are you and what do you do? I am the CEO and Co-Founder of UpTop, the first free end-to-end rental platform. We combine a rental listing…

We live in a world where homeowners can turn on the AC, unlock and lock the front door, turn on the lights, and detect water leaks – all from the office, the airport, or across the country. Home automation systems have gained popularity due to…

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…

Last week, I talked about the future power brokers of the industry. Smart homes are a sign of the inevitable adoption of a home OS coming (see Curbed’ Home of the Future): Who is best positioned to profit once the dust has settled and the home…

We’ve now published three Geek Estate founding member interview; Jennifer Kjellgren, Sep Niakan, and Eileen Romito. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being a Geek Estate mastermind member. Our 4th interview is with Ryan…