Drew Meyers

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Real Estate by Pieces: Is the Sky Falling or Just Splintering? (Transmission #269)

By: Sam Westelman Commission pressure is here. In the wake of Realogy/Anywhere ($83.5 million) and RE/MAX ($55 million) settling with the plaintiffs in the Burnett and Moehrl lawsuits, it’s clear a thing or two will change. Part of those settlements stipulate that agents are no longer

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Achieving Creative Product Nirvana (Transmission #267)

As always, links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. My goal with every GEM article, whether that be a Radar entry or a full-fledged Transmission, is to prompt deep thinking. To delve

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Short Curious. We’ve Got You (Newsletter #266)

Editor's Corner: Links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. Short-, mid-, and long-term are morphing into one. ❇️ Zumper made the jump last year❇️, and I asked “how long until Zillow

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Proptech Highlight: A Blanket Solution for a Nuanced Problem (Newsletter #265)

EDITOR'S CORNER: In this Transmission, we explore how Blanket's property management dashboard is being leveraged to build an off-market brokerage platform for property managers to help retain their doors under management. Trust me, it makes more sense as we get into it.  -DM Keep your doors

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A Crystal is Born From the GEM

I started objectively covering the real estate industry back in 2007 via the Geek Estate Blog with a goal to keep tech savvy agents, brokers, and executives on the cutting edge of real estate technology and marketing. The term proptech didn't exist back then. Fast forward ten years,

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An Unlikely Pinch Hitter Knocks a Homerun (Newsletter #264)

We’re going on four weeks since the ransomware attack on Rapattoni Corporation led to the “paraly[sis of] servers hosting multiple listing services with hundreds of thousands of members.” Rapattoni’s Association Management System and its IdP were also brought to their knees. A week later, the situation had

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Don’t Discount the Merits of a Friction-full Transaction (Newsletter #263)

Friction is good, not bad. At least in a residential real estate context. I know, I know … not many entrepreneurs believe that. But home is where family and community are built. It provides residents with a sanctuary, and a form of wealth creation while they seek prosperity and success. This

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Transparency Rules, Secrecy Drools (Newsletter #260)

There are few who would argue against the benefits of transparency in business. In the wake of the Enron scandal, increasing transparency was the driving factor behind passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which penalized destroying, altering, or fabricating financial records. Public companies are forced to disclose pretty much

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The Best Possible Housing Deal (Newsletter #259)

I’m a pyro. Always have been. Guilty as charged. Bonfires are my jam. Growing up on a lake, bonfires were an occurrence multiple times per week throughout spring and summer. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a love for fire means the 4th of July was a

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A GEM of a Personal Jam (Newsletter #247)

Failure’s a real bitch isn’t it? And it’s a topic we don’t talk about nearly enough. I experienced my first jolting failure in 2017: the end of the road for my travel startup. That moment served as a critical stepping stone on my personal journey. Five

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Stock in Down Payments (Transmission #245)

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Banking Real Estate in the Clouds (Newsletter #242)

The benefits of customer loyalty are well documented. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that people like earning something for their time, effort, and attention. A full 37% of consumers “are willing to pay a fee for access to enhanced loyalty program benefits,” according to 2018

State of the GEM Diamond 2023

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 239th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 11th, 2023.] Collectively, the GEM Diamond is a diverse community of proptech innovators spanning every role, sector, and geography. While the biz

Looking Forward to 2023: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 238th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 4th, 2023. Please note that some links are GEM Diamond Exclusives] For two straight years our central prediction theme was climate (2021

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Proptech’s Leader Has Been Crashing on Our Couch This Whole Time (Newsletter #232)

GEM Diamond July 2022 Radar

Below is a wrap-up for the month of July with the most interesting analysis & commentary from the GEM Diamond. Beyond the content side of our business, we curate proptech dinners, lunches, walks, and happy hours around the country. Member gatherings are taking place at Blueprint (Las Vegas), iOi (Los

Blueprinting Proptech: Foxy AI (Series II, Part VI)

Editor’s Note: The GEM Diamond is a real estate tech think-tank comprised of 500+ 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 startup briefings from our Blueprinting Proptech series that

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The Topic No One Will Touch with a Ten Foot Pole (Transmission #200)

As always, links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the

Filling the Emerging iBuyer Vacuum

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Transmission for GEM members, a series of long-form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is this month’s sample Transmission.] NOVEMBER MONTHLY TRANSMISSION BY DREW MEYERS Originally

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Corporate Property Rights Bonanza (Newsletter #182)

💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our

The Future Prop-Aquapreneur Paradise (Transmission #180)

Many of you have no doubt seen Waterworld, the classic post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner film in which most of Earth’s land is submerged due to the polar ice caps melting. It was the most expensive movie ever filmed at the time. I loved the film as a kid, partly due

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Divorcing Real Estate Commissions (Transmission #152 Part II)

[Editor's note: Originally published on the XBroker.] Guest authored over on the Moderne Ventures blog a few years ago. Super relevant today as new developments in the form of class-action lawsuits by Big Tobacco conquering law firms and the Department of Justice, seeks to reign in artificially inflated

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A Waking of the iBuying Elephant

[Note from editor: We publish Bi-Weekly Transmissions for paying members of the GEM Crystal that consist of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample Transmission] There were five. Now, we’

Small Landlord Property Management Software Landscape in 2020

[Editor’s note: These are the conclusions from the category product review series for the small landlord property management software sector. Originally published in the Geek Estate Mastermind.] From the outset of our category product review series—a test of the value of business intelligence as a service—we took

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Real Estate Needs TLC, Too

[Note from editor: We publish Bi-Weekly Transmissions for paying members of the GEM Crystal that consist of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample Transmission about a company I’m