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This is a crosspost episode from the Housing News Podcast, hosted by Clayton Collins.

This week,  Clayton is coming to your feed live from the Blueprint proptech and real estate conference in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. He had the opportunity to sit down in person and talk to Rick Sharga, the Executive Vice President at ATTOM, and Nate Smoyer, the Head of Marketing at Obie as well as the host of the Tech Nest Podcast.

The three of them talk about what they learned and took away from the Blueprint conference, and how the market is impacting the decisions being made by prop-tech, mortgage tech, and real estate companies.

The Housing News podcast explores the most important topics happening in mortgage, real estate, and fintech. Each week a new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.

Check out the Housing News podcast at https://www.housingwire.com/podcast

Follow and connect with this week's guests:

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More about Yieldeasy and Jeff Gopshtein
Yieldeasy is a marketplace to buy & sell small apartment buildings.

Having spent 7+ years in institutional real estate investing and private equity, Jeff ventured off into the entrepreneurial world and is building Yieldeasy to help mom and pop investors acquire small balance CRE. Jeff's previous work experience also includes capital markets, development, and property management. He's bought and sold single family rentals during the pandemic which gave him the idea for this business. 

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• Checkout Yieldeasy

About Nate:
Nate Smoyer is Director of Marketing for Avail, a platform for DIY landlords and their renters. He helped take the company from seed stage through series A, and to exit in just under 18 months. Proptech is a passion and he’s mildly obsessed with the industry. Outside of work, he’s running through the Black Hills of South Dakota seeking adventure. When not running, you’ll find him on the highway riding his Indian Chief Vintage, at the skatepark riding BMX—all before resting by the fire with a glass of bourbon and good book.

Nate & Tech Nest Links:

• Nate on LInkedIn
• Nate on Twitter
• Tech Nest on LinkedIn
• Tech Nest on Twitter

About Clayton & HW Media:
Clayton Collins is the founder and CEO of HW Media. He leads HW Media’s corporate strategy and content roadmap, while building a world-class team of business media professionals. He is also managing partner of Riomar Capital, an entrepreneurial investment firm that acquired HousingWire in 2016. Prior to founding Riomar Capital, Collins worked at RBC Capital Markets in the mergers and acquisitions group and served as vice president of national sales and marketing at Citibank. 

HW Media provides mortgage, real estate and fintech professionals the news, knowledge and community they need to support decision making and business growth. Aligned with our mission to Move Markets Forward, we publish daily news and content through each of our core publishing brands including HousingWire, RealTrends, Reverse Mortgage Daily and FinLedger. HW Media is based in Dallas, TX with team members across the country.  

HW Media reaches over 1 million monthly users, and our daily newsletters and membership programs reach over 100,000 subscribers. 

Clayton & HW Media Links:

• Clayton on LinkedIn
• Clayton on Twitter
• FinLedger on Twitter
• FinLedger Newsletters
• HW Media website 

An Agency is not the only path for the Media Buyer. Today, we join Nate Smoyer who when we last spoke with him had his own agency. Then he decided to join a fast-growing startup which ended up being acquired!

We talk about the differences between building an internal media buying team and some of the lessons Nate has learned. This episode will really open up your eyes as to the opportunities which are available to you as a media buyer.

Email Nate at nate@realteampanda.com

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Schedule an appointment with one of our team to show you around AdSkills: https://get.adskills.com/tour/​​

CREXi is the commercial real estate industry's fastest-growing marketplace, data, and technology platform.

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Follow CREXi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CREXinc
Visit CREXi online: https://www.crexi.com

Doorkee is a peer-to-peer apartment rental platform where Landlords, Departing Tenants, and Apartment Seekers work together.

Landlords pre-lease units, saving money on vacancy, broker fees, and marketing costs. Departing Tenants earn a rent refund of ~$1,000 by giving early notice and providing apartment tours.

Apartment Seekers find their perfect home months sooner than ever, searching, touring, applying and closing on an all-in-one platform - without every paying a broker fee.

Email John at: john@doorkee.com
Connect with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnjamesfagan
Visit Doorkee online: https://doorkee.com

Rob Chesnut is the Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb, Inc., a role he took on in late 2019 after almost four years as Airbnb’s General Counsel. Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.  He worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, where he prosecuted bank robberies, kidnappings, murder, and espionage cases, including the prosecution of CIA employee Aldrich Ames. He joined eBay in 1999 as its third lawyer, where he led eBay’s North America legal team and later founded the Internet’s first ecommerce person to person Trust and Safety operation. Rob subsequently spent nearly 6 years as the General Counsel and first attorney at digital education leader Chegg, where he helped take the company public in 2013. He joined Airbnb in 2016, where he grew the legal team from 30 to over 150 legal professionals in 20 offices around the world. His team led initiatives to promote home sharing and address regulatory issues with local governments and landlords around the world. Rob developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company. His book “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution” is set for publication by St Martin’s Press in the spring of 2020. Rob works with companies to help them develop strategies to drive integrity into their culture. He lives in San Francisco, CA, and can be reached at www.intentionalintegrity.com 

Connect with Rob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robchesnut
Visit the Intentional Integrity website: https://www.intentionalintegrity.com

Hannah Gorlick is the CEO and Co-Founder of Doorside, a software company providing custom marketplace apps for the real estate vertical. Dooride's platform solutions empower real estate brokerages with recruiting and virtual team-building; property managers with on-demand tours; and service-based businesses with a marketplace engine.

Connect with Hannah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahgorlick
Follow Doorside on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getdoorside
Visit Doorside Online: https://www.getdoorside.com

Bio:
Drew began his career in real estate at Tungsten Partners, a real estate private equity firm, where he sourced, evaluated, structured, and facilitated real estate investments. Assessing risk and analyzing the financial and strategic viability of investment opportunities, Drew helped source, scrutinize, appraise, and model the risk, potential value, and strategic viability for real estate investments in markets including New York City, Miami, San Francisco, Marfa, Madrid, and Venice, amounting to over $1 billion in assets. He also assisted in the management and support of Tungsten’s high net worth clients. Prior to LEX, Drew co-owned, developed, and sold an apparel consumer brand after working on Capitol Hill.

Company Overview:
LEX is the first and only commercial real estate securities marketplace available to accredited and non-accredited investors.

On LEX’s platform, everyday Americans can buy and sell shares of individual commercial properties, giving users the flexibility to create customized and diversified real estate portfolios. In addition, the groundbreaking marketplace will allow property owners to easily unlock equity while retaining operational control of their properties. LEX is democratizing the commercial real estate asset class and redefining real estate investing.

Visit LEX - https://www.lex-markets.com
Follow LEX on Twitter - https://twitter.com/LEX_Markets
Follow Drew on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SterrettDrew
Connected with Drew on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-sterrett

Compound’s technology connects investors from diverse backgrounds and geographies — who have historically not had access to high-quality urban residential real estate — and allows them to pool their capital to buy apartments in high-growth cities. Compound is a venture-backed real estate marketplace and qualified opportunity zone business based in New York City. Compound is led by Janine Yorio (previously head of real estate at Standard Hotels) and Jesse Stein (previously COO of ETRE Financial). Visit www.getcompound.com.

Email Janine - janine@getcompound.com
Connect with Janine on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/janineyorio
Follow Janine on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JanineYorio
Follow Compound on Twitter - https://twitter.com/getcompound
Visit Compound - https://getcompound.com

Co-founder, Jordan Levy, previously built and sold Flowroute with Sean Hsieh.

Concreit is a micro-investing platform for commercial real estate that keeps your money flexible. We aim to create a stable and predictable return for investors by accessing private real estate investments & lending opportunities that are not publicly traded.

Check out Concreit's website - concreit.com
Concreit on Twitter - twitter.com/ConcreitApp
Sean Hsieh on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/seanhsieh
Sean Hsieh on Twitter - twitter.com/envisean
Email Sean Hsieh at - sean@concreit.com

#2: Nate Smoyer shares with us how his podcast enabled him to break into an industry where he had zero connections and quickly position himself as a go-to resource for some of the most prominent leaders in his niche.

Nate is the director of marketing at a property technology company called Avail, where he's working to make renting a better experience for landlords and tenants. During his spare time he hosts one of the industry's most prominent podcasts called Tech Nest; interviewing leaders and innovators in real estate tech to share what they're doing to transform the way we buy, sell, and invest in real estate.

You can email nate at nate@realteampanda.com or connect with him on LinkedIn.

And don't forget to check out his Tech Nest Podcast.

Episode show notes and transcript at contentheroes.com/2

Examining the ways that technology and innovation are changing our built environment.

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Real estate is one of the oldest and highest performing asset classes - known for producing long-term wealth over generations. However, more people are choosing to rent now than at any point in the last 50 years, either for affordability or freedom to move. While individuals can achieve greater flexibility through renting, they also miss out on the benefits of wealth creation that can come from owning real estate, and, therefore end up under invested in real estate compared to peers who purchase homes. Every year spent without holding real estate investments, real estate can become more expensive and further out of reach as property values rise.

We believe people should have the freedom to move around to pursue new opportunities in their life while still having access to the wealth creation long-term home ownership can provide.

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Alex founded Door when his mom sold her house with a traditional real estate agent, paid 6% commission, and did not even get a thank you note. Door.com is has the technology and expert agents you need to sell your home in the new digital world of real estate. Best of all? You only pay a flat fee, anywhere in the country, when your home sells.

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Email Alex at adoubet@door.com

Natalia Karayaneva is the CEO of Propy, a Silicon Valley proptech company revolutionizing home purchasing via blockchain. She is an award-winning real estate developer, software engineer, and a serial entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in international real estate and crypto-economics. Natalia is a frequent panelist and speaker at blockchain and proptech events globally. She is an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital and a contributor to Forbes. Natalia has a degree in Computer Engineering from Russia and a degree in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford.

Propy is revolutionizing home purchasing globally by deploying smart contracts on the blockchain. Our disruptive solution helps buyers find a dream home, sellers find the best buyer, the agents and the title company to do the paperwork online. All of them participate in a seamless online process.

Learn more about Propy, and connect with Natalia!

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Learn more about Renters Warehouse, and connect with Noel!

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Learn more about HappyCo, and connect with Jindou!

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Blake Miller is the Founder of Homebase.ai a resident experience and connected building solution for the multi-family housing industry. Blake is also the host of The Future of Living Podcast. Prior to Homebase Blake was a Partner at Think Big, a startup incubator in Kansas City, MO. At Think Big, Blake led the incubator program investing in and advising early stage startups. In 2012, Blake led the Kansas City Smart City Initiative, a public private partnership led by Cisco, deploying smart city technologies in Downtown Kansas City, MO, creating one of the worlds largest smart cities and winning a 2017 Edison Award for innovation.

Blake has been recognized as a Next Gen Leader by the Kansas City Business Journal, top 20 in their 20's by Ingram Magazine, and a top young entrepreneur to watch by under30ceo.

Blake speaks nationally and serves as a board member, advisor and mentor to a number of startups.

Learn more about Homebase.ai and connect with Blake!

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Learn more about Breather, and connect with Packy!

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