[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 April.]

Mastermind Summary

April was full of events. I spent three weeks on the East Coast, and produced the first Geek Estate Mastermind Soirée in New York City hosted at MetaProp’s new office space, PropTech Place. There, 30 attendees discussed the future of the industry while making new connections. Thank you to MetaProp for the use of their space.

Additionally, I attended CREtech Future in Boston, organized two group lunches in NYC, and Zillow Group hosted our monthly lunch in Seattle.

– Drew Meyers

New Members

• Andrea Ballarini from Fabrica
• Daniel Corkill from Follow Up Boss
• David Chesnosky from Veritas Investments
• Chris Lewis from Massive Property Group
• Ash Zandieh from CREtech
• Elie Finegold from MetaProp
• Warren Lee from Addressable.AI
• Erez Cohen from Knock

Member News

• Congrats to Ritesh Bansal for launching Verus AI.
• Keyo launched a Guarantee which guarantees rental income to residential landlords for tenants placed with their platform.
• Zillow announced home loans and a new Premier Agent logo & scoring system (locked).
• You’ve probably read about the commission sharing class-action lawsuit. Here is Russ Cofano’s take.
• Congrats to Buyside for partnering with RE/MAX Results to bring buyer demand insights to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
• Avail announced a $2.5 million round of funding led by Cultivation Capital.
• Congrats to Sam DeBord for his new role as CEO of RESO.
• Restb.ai announced a partnership with Tri-State Area marketplace to identify and display every floor plan within their 300K+ property image library.
• Zvi Band released Success is in your Sphere, a new book with all proceeds going toward Giveback Homes. Talk about cool.
• Congrats to Dave Zirnhelt for launching Top Rated Agents of 2018 for 49 Canadian cities.
• BHGRE Metro Brokers Launched Buyside to over 2,400 Agents

Transmission Topics

• Subscription models offer the diversification that brokerages desperately need.
• The certain, total liquidity coming to houses and streets near you.
• A one week hiatus to produce the first Geek Estate Mastermind Soirée.
• Re-imagining the ground floor of real estate tech innovation.

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What is farming in real estate? (Part 2)

Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: Karen Abram from dashCMA

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Karen Abram from dashCMA.

Without further ado…

Who are you and what do you do?

In short, I help bring perspective to the pricing conversation. dashCMA is a modern pricing tool for the modern real estate agent. Simply put, dashCMA equips the agent with a modern pricing perspective that their competition isn’t showing helping them win more listings, win more accepted offers but more importantly, win their client’s trust.

I started my career as a “data storyteller” working as a Sports Stringer for the Los Angeles Daily News. My passion for bringing a narrative to analytics carried over to a successful 15+ year career in the Advertising industry. Working for several of the world’s leading advertising agencies, I developed analytical models for some of the most recognized brands, including Sony Electronics, Nissan, Universal and Lionsgate. This background helped immensely when I became a Real Estate Agent. I was frustrated with the market and comparable analysis tools available. I turned my frustration into action and created dashCMA, a modern, interactive take on the traditional 60+ page CMA presentation.

When I am not simplifying data, I can be found in the sports stands with my husband, Mike, rooting for our son, Dylan, and daughter, Mia.

What problem does your product/service solve?

As an agent myself, I was frustrated with the current pricing tools and CMA tools available. I was frustrated with the timely process of creating and updating them and even more frustrated with the process of presenting what felt like a behemoth of unstructured details in a 60+ page presentation. Instead of flipping from page 4 to 9 to 23 to 44 and losing my client’s attention along the way, I wanted to be able to focus on 1 page that encompassed the multiple perspectives needed for effective pricing. Understanding these pain points firsthand combined with my 15+ year experience building pricing models for Fortune 500 clients was the right balance and motivation needed to get started.

What are you most excited about right now?

I’m not a morning person, but have become one. Here’s why. We launched April 3rd. The first couple days, no one used the tool. I panicked and thought, “Great. I just spent the last couple years building a tool that only I like.” On the 3rd day, a few agents started using it. Then a few more. Then a few offices bought in for their agents and it kept rolling from there. Now, I wake up to emails from agents all around the country asking when their MLS will be added and to testimonials from agents detailing how dashCMA has helped them. It’s the best feeling.

What’s next for you?

More features and more perspective. We launched with our MVP but have a long product roadmap that we’re excited to start unraveling and rolling out. I am excited to be at Inman Connect in start-up alley and to speak on the “New Kids on the Block” panel.

What’s a cause you’re passionate about and why?

Public education. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) strike hit close to home for me. My son started Kindergarten this year and I’m getting a firsthand look at how drastically different the public school experience has changed since I was a child. Building a foundational love for learning and helping the next generation feel empowered is very important to me.

Thanks to Karen for sharing her story. If you’d like to connect, find her on LinkedIn here.

We’re constantly looking for great real estate tech entrepreneurs to feature. If that’s you, please read this post — then drop me a line (drew @ geekestatelabs dot com).

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New Agent 101: What is farming in real estate? (Part 1)

Give Your Apartment a Minimalist Makeover by Decluttering

When you begin decluttering your home, it can be difficult to decide what to part with and you can find yourself overwhelmed or intimidated by the task. Fret not, we have a few tips to help you get started.

Everything Needs a Home

The idea behind the minimalist home is that everything has a use and a place. If you cannot find a good spot for an item, and there is no way it can be easily tucked away when you are not using it, then you should consider getting rid of it.

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Keep Safe When Renting: Apartment Security Best Practices

Apartment security is about protecting your belongings, but it’s also about peace of mind. Good security is a combination of simple, long-standing best practices and new ideas. Here are some tips on how to keep safe when renting:

The Basics

Smart technology can greatly improve home security, but before revealing how the “Internet of Things” makes its way into rentals, we’ll cover a few of the basics of home security that we all should be doing (but many of us fail to do).

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House or Apartment: What Should You Rent?

While searching for your perfect home, you imagine the ideal lifestyle you want to live in. For some people, it’ll be a quiet home, with a pretty garden out in the back and plenty of space for your dog to roam free. For others, it’ll be a modern apartment, with an indoor pool on the lower levels, located a few steps away from public transit.

You may think you already know what kind of home you want to live in, but don’t close off your options before considering these factors:

Lifestyle

Remember that whether or not you would enjoy living in a single family house for rent or a rental apartment is in relation to your ideal lifestyle.

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Green Living: Top States Where It’s Easiest to Adopt a Sustainable Lifestyle (Infographic)

When deciding to go green, many people start to realize the scarce number of sustainable alternatives available for such a lifestyle. Yet with climate change and environmental problems catching the public eye so often, we see an overall encouragement for green practices, at both micro and macro levels. A large part of anyone’s carbon footprint comes from the buildings in which they live and work, but also from the daily commute. The challenge is to find a place where you have multiple options for integrating green living into these areas.

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Making Your Apartment a Home: Find Well-Being by Tidying-Up

Cleaning out the mess accumulated over time, often filled with long-forgotten treasures, can positively impact our life, becoming an investment in ourselves rather than something we must do. With millennials falling into the trend of minimalism, organizing has become a practical necessity for the small sized homes. While organizing our home has always felt like a chore, it is now becoming an act towards well-being, thanks to our favorite new cleaning gurus:

Marie Kondo, with her book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”, has started a movement that many people have been taking a part in.

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People are on the move. Where’s your relocation guide?

Interactive Map of TIC Communities in Los Angeles

Job Opportunity: MeetElise – Director of Customer Success

MeetElise is a NYC and DC-based startup using artificial intelligence to make good housing affordable to all by making it less expensive to manage apartment buildings.

They are looking to hire a Director of Customer Success to develop the customer success process (onboarding, support, insights) and lead the customer success team.

About the Director of Customer Success Role

MeetElise is growing quickly and you’ll be building out a customer success process that will support customer growth to our first million apartments by the end of 2020 and beyond.

Your Objectives

1. Develop a customer success process and team that can onboard and serve 1 million apartment units by 2020.
2. Set ambitious customer service metrics and exceed them.
3. Gather and distill insights from our customers about how to make our products better.

Key Activities and Questions

Build out our customer success process.

1. Metrics
   1. What metrics do we need to ensure we provide efficient and exceptional customer service?
2. Customer Onboarding
   1. How do we make onboarding and training an exceptional experience for our customers?
   2. How do we significantly reduce the time and effort MeetElise spends onboarding each customer?
3. Customer Support
   1. How do we prioritize competing customer support requests?
   2. How do we provide complete solutions as quickly as possible?
4. Customer Insights
   1. How do we create a regular feedback loop with our customers so we’re constantly getting better and building the right things?
   2. How do we identify the biggest problems and product growth opportunities?
5. Contract Renewals and Upselling
   1. How do we build strong relationships with our customers?
   2. How do we encourage our customers to use more MeetElise products?

Hire, lead, and retain a driven customer success team to help you achieve all of the above.

Our Ideal Candidate

1. You’re excited about providing customers with an exceptional experience and solving the housing industry’s problems with AI.
2. You love building processes, bringing order to chaos, and know how to prioritize.
3. You’re hungry to learn and constantly experimenting to make things better.
4. You’re excited to join a small startup team and pitch in anywhere (including sales).
5. You have 4+ years in customer success and 2+ years managing a team.
6. You’ve worked at a B2B startup and 6 day work weeks don’t scare you.

Note: We value potential over qualifications, so we’re willing to take a risk on someone who can grow into this role.

Location: New York, NY or Washington, DC

Compensation and Benefits

1. Competitive salary
2. Stock options
3. 401K
4. Medical, dental, vision
5. Gym membership (or physical activity equivalent) stipend
6. Maternity / paternity leave
7. Flexible vacation (we trust you’ll get the work done)
8. All the tools you need (computer, monitors, etc.)
9. Team outings and home cooked meals

Interested? Please send your resume (or link to detailed LinkedIn profile) and an email introducing yourself and why you want to join MeetElise.

Apply Now

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AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle

The AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) Hackathon is coming back to Seattle for another year. The event was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. It is a community of innovators that include all elements of the built environment, not just AEC, all around the world.

Date And Time: Fri, April 26, 2019, 6:00 PM – Sun, April 28, 2019, 6:00 PM PDT

Location: UW’s Center for Research & Education in Construction (7543 63RD AVENUE NE, BUILDING 5 BAY B, Seattle, WA 98115)

Schedule:

Friday evening, April 26th 

6 pm Doors Open (Open to the Public)

7 – 7:30 pm

• Damon Hernandez AEC Hackathon Executive Director
• Salla Palos Microsoft, Director of Transformation Services
• Mollie Fadule Partner at Cephas Partners and Board Member at CREW

7:30 pm Lighting Rounds / Team Formation

10 pm Adjourn

Saturday, April 27th

9 am Doors open

11 AM – 12 PM Magic Leap workshop with engineers from the Magic Leap Team

12 PM – 1 PM Lunch and Hacking

1 – 2 PM Unity and AEC – Mark Schoennagel of the Unity AEC Team will lead a workshop. Mark is the Lead Evangelist focused on the Automotive and AEC verticals while leading the Americas team of Unity Evangelists.

2 – 3 PM The Future of Real Estate, Panel Discussion 

• Mollie Fadule, Cephas Partners and CREW Seattle
• Simon Stevenson, Professor or Real Estate at UW
• Sam DeBord, Real Estate Standards Organization and Seattle Homes
• Drew Meyers, Geek Estate

3 – 4 PM The Future of Construction, Panel Discussion

• Shaan Hurley, Autodesk Research,
• Damon Hernandez, AEC Hackathon Executive Director
• Stefan Schneider, CutMyTimber
• Greg Howes, AEC Hackathon

10 pm Adjourn

Sunday, April 28th

9 am Doors Open

1 pm Hacking Concludes

1:30 pm Artificial Intelligence and Real Estate, Bryan Copley, CEO of CityBLDR

2 pm Team Presentations (Open to the Public)

6 pm Adjourn

Get Your Ticket

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TIC UNIT FOR SALE |612 Westminster Ave | $1,100,000

TIC UNIT FOR SALE | 612 Westminster Ave | $1,100,000

Eclectic Retreat In Venice Beach

Property Website

Completely gated with an eight-foot high redwood fence, lays this immaculate retreat with private patio and yard, offering privacy and outdoor space more commonly found with a single-family home. This ground floor unit in an intimate 3-unit community really does feel more like a home or an eclectic beach getaway.

Two blocks from internationally coveted Abbot Kinney and a few blocks more to the beach, the location doesn’t get better than this.

Wonderful indoor-outdoor flow, with an open layout to the living room. Single panel French doors lead to a spacious patio with modern tile-work and to the drought-tolerant landscaped front and side yards. Crisp white-washed wood floors throughout, this sun-splashed 2-bedroom home is retrofitted with new windows from which an ocean breeze can be felt. Tastefully renovated kitchen with bright cabinetry, new white quartz counters and brass finishes. An ample and modern bathroom with new tile enclosure and brass fixtures. Details include spacious walk-in closets, mini-split AC in each room, QuietRock® & sound insulated ceilings and stainless-steel appliances. Amenities include in-unit laundry, two-car parking and low HOA dues.

TIC sale with financing available – with as little as 10% down thru Sterling Bank, Henry Jeanes, HJeanes@sterlingbank.com.

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Details

• 612 Westminster Ave. 
• 2 BED/ 1 BATH
• SQUARE FEET: 906 SQ/FT
• LIST PRICE: $1,100,000
• Parking for 2 cars

For more information, contact Listing Agent:

Liz McDonald, Broker
TRG Realty Company, Inc.
The Rental Girl Sales
323-313-5780 Cell
liz@therentalgirl.com
BRE #: 01449897

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