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Solving the Rental Management Puzzle for Independent Landlords with Ryan Barone
Episode 51617th October 2023 • Real Estate Investing with the REI Mastermind Network • REI Mastermind Network | Real Estate Investing
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Ryan Barone is the founder and CEO of RentRedi, an end-to-end management platform for landlords and tenants. The journey began when Barone realized that the rental industry needed improvement, not just for tenants, but also for independent landlords. After interacting with them and hearing their struggles, he decided to create a solution that would benefit both sides. Rent Ready was born out of Barone's desire to make renting easier and more efficient for landlords and tenants alike. Over the past 6 or 7 years, Rent Ready has constantly evolved, with each feature or enhancement rooted in the real-life experiences and challenges faced by landlords. From applications and prequalifying tenants to signing leases and collecting rent, Rent Ready streamlines and manages the entire rental process. What started as a personal problem-solving quest for Barone has now become a comprehensive platform that improves the rental experience for everyone involved.

Connect with Ryan Barone: https://app.rentredi.com/signUp/JCH191 (sponsored link)

Key Points and Bullets:

Introduction and Background

  • Introduces Ryan Barone from RentRedi
  • Mentions previous advertisement on the podcast
  • Discusses Jack's positive experience with the app
  • Mention of previous platform used (apartments.com/cozy)

Development of Rent Ready

  • Ryan explains that initial development was for personal use
  • Independent landlords requested improvements, leading to the expansion of the app
  • Focus on solving problems faced by landlords and tenants
  • Evolution of Rent Ready into an end-to-end management platform

Growth and User Base

  • Jack asks about the duration of RentRedi's existence (6-7 years)
  • Mention of the team size (30 members)
  • Number of units and assets managed on the platform (150,000 units, $12 billion)

Influx of Users

  • Discussion on various influx points of users
  • COVID-19 pandemic led more landlords to seek digital payment solutions
  • RentRedi implemented features to encourage on-time rent payment and report payments to credit bureaus

Entrepreneurship and Support System

  • Jack asks Ryan about his entrepreneurial journey
  • Ryan discusses having a support system and belief in pursuing the venture
  • Mention of working on Rent Ready alongside a full-time job
  • Ryan's father joins him in building Rent Ready

Challenges and Stumbling Blocks

  • Jack asks about the biggest stumbling block faced by RentRedi
  • Ryan does not provide a specific answer to this question

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We have Ryan Barone with me here today with

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RentRedi.com, and I'll make sure to have that link directly in the

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show notes. Ryan, I really appreciate your time. And

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for full disclosure, Ryan and RentRedi has

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advertised on the podcast in the past. And because of

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that, I always check things out prior. So I was using the application,

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and it's great. So I have stuck with it for

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Jeepers. I bet you I've been on that for I gotta be closing in on

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a couple years now, a year and a half moving from

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apartments.com/cozy, which

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was frankly becoming a bit of a nightmare, Ryan. I

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appreciate the app that you've developed. Hi. I

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appreciate you having me on excited that you've been using it for so long

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now. I try to find efficiencies everywhere I can,

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And I want to push as much of that off

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wherever I can, including, on the technology size and managing

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the rental properties. When it comes to ease of use, I

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just frankly, I don't know. And I'm not just blowing

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smoke, and I don't know if you really have a rival right now.

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I appreciate that. Honestly, a lot of credit to the people on the platform, a

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lot of the independent landlords and tenants that have been on the platform because

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Our approach for building it since day 1 has pretty much been give

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us the the problems you face, the ideas you think could fix them,

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and We'll go try to build it and make it forward for everybody. I'm really

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happy to hear you say that. I act I actually have to start things off.

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You're a fellow young guy. This would have been a project you would have started

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when you were still in college, if not coming out. Yeah. What

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caused you to typically, a rental

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Management platform would wouldn't be on a college kid's

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radar. It it wasn't, honestly. It wasn't on my radar.

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What was on my radar was honestly just being I did get my 1st

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internship. I was going to school here in New York City, and, I was

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excited to move into my 1st apartment. Move out of dorms, get my 1st

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apartment. And, I realized I was definitely not ready to

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rent that carpet. I've, there were a lot of documents I needed to get together

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to apply. And so initially, I was just developing an

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app for myself and friends to apply the units more easily.

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And what I quickly realized Was that the independent landlords

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that I just so happen to be interacting with came to me and said, hey.

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Our side is just as bad, if not worse. Can you make our side

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better so that it's easier for us, not just for you? And

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so at that point was where it it Pivoted to being both sides and, really,

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honestly, to the landlord first, and then they make a a better experience for

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their own tenant as a result of adopting RentRedi. And beyond

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that, over the past 6 or 7 years now, it's been this constant

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discussion. Pretty much everything on the platform today Comes from at

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least 1 landlord story, if not multiple stories around

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a problem they were having and a solution we could implement such that

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we became not just for applying to apartments, but

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actually syndicating that out to different places and prequalifying

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tenants and Signing your lease and collecting all of your rent on the platform and

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how you streamline and manage all that. So, basically, we ended up becoming this

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this end to end management platform, but, really, it's it Started with just

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how can I solve my own problems so that it's easier for me to rent,

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and then how can I solve the problems of the people that I knew personally

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because I was meeting these independent landlords and saying, how can it be better for

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both of us, everybody involved? Now that you've been doing this, How long

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has the platform been up? About 2019? 7 years now.

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6 or 7 years now? So with all of that, have you started doing any

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investing yourself? I have been totally focused on the

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management side of things, so I've been totally focused on building the

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platform, helping other landlords at this point. That's completely

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understandable. I can imagine that the way as as

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quickly as you're trying to reiterate this platform,

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It's probably consuming a lot of time. How big is your team now? So we're

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about 30 on the team today. Okay. And you manage how many

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units on your platform? So we have over a

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150,000 units over $12,000,000,000 in assets under

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management on the platform today. Did you find any kind of

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turning point that anything that happened within the industry that you

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saw an influx of users? Yeah. I think there there's definitely

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been multiple points where we've seen influx of users.

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One, honestly, actually, was during COVID even. At the very beginning, it

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was the opposite. But then after maybe that 1st month or

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so, one thing we started seeing was that a lot of independent

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investors who previously had managed everything on Pen and paper and

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spreadsheets started saying, hey. I don't want to collect a

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check or come to your house and get cashed in the middle of COVID. I've

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been thinking about maybe Adopting some sort of digital payments

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platform to make it easier for me to collect rent. And so we did see

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a lot of people start to Really take that leap and

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say, I'm gonna streamline it for both ends. And it ended up making it a

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lot easier for them because instead of driving someone's house to get

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cash Or having them mail a check. They were instantly having that

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update in terms of a tracking perspective when a tenant pays and

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Being able to just have that be automated in terms of late fees and payments

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and all of that. That's been a big part of it, and even honestly out

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of that has come features we had during COVID. On that same payment side

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of things, landlords at tenants say, hey. Could you

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encourage my tenants to pay on time? Or on the flip side of that tenant

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saying, Can you make it easier or or give me some sort of benefit for

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paying on time? And during that same time period, based on that

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feedback we got, we actually built the ability to Report tenants

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on time payments to credit bureaus so that they build the credit by paying rent

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on time. So I think some of those that was definitely a big influx period

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for us, and and even From that, it's helped develop the product further and add

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more things to to help both parties. It's curious as regarding the

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whole entrepreneur mindset. You came right out of college like

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this. Was this natural? Are you typically surrounded by

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entrepreneurs in your family or in your life that made you feel like you

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you could go for it? Yeah. I am. I I I

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have a very strong belief that having a support system that tells

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you go for it is really important. I definitely had that.

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I, originally, when I graduated college, I was working on RentRedi on the side. Not

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too different than a lot of the independent investors on our platform that have a

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9 to 5, and Their properties are they're moonlight, gee. It's what they're doing

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to put a kit their car or make a little extra money. For me, it

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was I was working full time at PwC, I was working on RentRedi

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at at night, basically. And when I told my parents, hey. I

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think I'm, you know, gonna leave, and I'm gonna try to do this full time

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and Turn this into really something that helped a lot of people. Not only were

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they excited for me, and they told me that cheers to all of it that

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night, but also my dad joined me in And he and I have been actually

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building RentRedi for the past 6 years together. It's been

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really exciting to do together, but I it certainly means a lot. It's all it

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means a lot for someone to say, We support you. We think you should go

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for it. It has meant even more to say, not only that, but also I

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wanna do it with you. We do it together. So it's been great.

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As a business owner, there's always something that keeps you up at night. What has

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been the biggest stumbling block getting this platform moving

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so far? That's a good question. I think in the

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very early days, it was trying to figure out what's the right way to do

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it. There's so many different ways to manage your property, Especially, I wanted

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something that could help anybody no matter what size they are

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or what state they're in. We have landlords managing across all 50 states at this

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point. Some are in Rural areas, some are in metropolitan areas. I I

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really wanted something that was flexible enough to serve any

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size or any area so that someone I have to feel like, oh, because I'm

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not in the right area because I'm not the sat right side of the kit,

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use this. So I think in the very early days of us trying to figure

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out how do we get The perfect thing, what I came to realize

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was getting the perfect thing is not the right way to go about it, but

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getting feedback on what the best way that The

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crowd the wisdom of the crowd believes is to implement that

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and try to implement it and see how it works has been really successful for

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us in terms of Taking that feedback, building something,

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measuring, learning from it, and and iterating on that. I think that was probably one

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of the early stumbling blocks. But, honestly, now it's become a

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Core process for how we build anything in terms of

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anything we're trying to improve or add to the platform, how we should do it,

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how we should avoid it and just using that customer feedback and that

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iteration to make it better and better every day. One one of the things that

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I think is interesting about your platform is that there's a lot of integrations

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with third parties. Where do you draw the line as

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to where a 3rd party needs to be incorporated or when

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you add it as part of your functionality. And and did

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you take a moment and define your core feature set, and then

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that's what you're sticking to, or how did that look? Yeah. It's a great question.

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So the approach that we've taken in it is has been

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Hearing the the feedback that we get from our own customer, that's really where it

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starts even for those partnerships. If I take our maintenance coordination, for example,

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company, Lacto, that we partnered with there. That came actually similarly out

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of during COVID times. We had some, independent investors, some

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landlords coming to us saying, I don't want to do my maintenance myself,

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but I also don't have a teammate that I wanna add into the platform because

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you can add teammates if you already have somebody. Could you

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basically help me with if a maintenance request comes

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through, do you handle finding the right person and coordinating

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and the process for us initially was, does anybody out there do this and do

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they do it well? That's really our 1st step with a lot of these partnerships.

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Is there someone out there that does it Already, Mint does a good job of

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it. And if there is, then great. Let's partner with them and and integrate them,

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which was the answer in the case of Lateral. In other cases, if

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we talk to people and find that there isn't necessarily

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something out there that serves that need, we'll build it in house.

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If it's something that we feel can really help independent landlords

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manage their property or tenants to be more happy living in that

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property of that independent landlord. And so

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Essentially, if it falls under that category, it's something we consider whether we

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build or partner really just depends on if we can find someone out there that

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is doing it really well. If they are, then awesome. Let's partner with them,

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add them into the platform. In a lot of in a lot of cases, we

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can make it more seamless for them too because, even ex for

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example, with Latchl, we were able to streamline all of the

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onboardings from your perspective, enabling it. You're just Turning

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this thing on. And we handle creating all your properties and sending all

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your tenants over and syncing all of that information and everything like that. That's been

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an approach for us is trying to say, can we simplify it even if we

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do partner with somebody? If you don't mind me asking, what

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mechanism is in place for you to take those, those

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feedback from your landlords and your users so that you

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and and how do you measure prioritization? Yeah. I don't mind

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it at all. We've had live chat on the platform since day 1. Myself

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and Ed Parshare, we're doing it For the

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1st 2 or 3 years ourselves. So you wrote into the chat, you were talking

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to us directly, and our feedback loop initially

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was You wrote into us a chat, and,

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basically, he and I were talking. I was developing platform for the 1st couple

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years, And then we're building into the platform. We've grown a lot since then to

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a team of over 30, but that same idea still stands. So you

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might not be interacting directly with us in live chat, but you have somebody

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in live chat on the RentRedi team that understands

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either managing properties or renting in those properties, And they

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can basically provide that feedback to our team, either

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to one of our product managers or development team to basically say this is what

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I'm hearing. As we collect more and more of that, we start to understand, okay,

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the way that Jack would do this in his property in maybe Massachusetts versus the

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way that Ryan would do this in a property in Texas. How can we make

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this work for both of them? What does this look like? And then in some

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cases, we may even actually reach back out to those individual landlords if they're

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open to it and say, hey. This is Basically, what we've designed is what we're

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thinking of doing. Would this work for you? Would would you change anything in

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this? Would this be helpful? And, basically, that's then how we

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then go to develop it and release it and share it out. And we keep

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that tagged too. We could pull up in in the system over time, and I

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know there's a lot of A landlords on the platform that have been with us

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for quite a few years now that probably could tell you from their side. I

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was one of them that suggested that or that it be this certain way. I

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think it's an Exciting thing that it feels like we're building it all together. Has

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there been any requests that you've received that have surprised you? That's a

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good question. There's definitely been requests I didn't Anticipate.

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Right? 1 was, for example, in Texas.

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We had a landlord in Texas that called up On Friday night

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and said, hey. Unfortunately, I'm going through an eviction proceeding. And in my

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particular area, if they pay $1, it resets the eviction

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clock. So can you allow me to block partial payments by tenant? And this

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was a little bit earlier on. And so, basically, we

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did not anticipate you needing to either block partial or

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entirely blocked payments for just 1 tenant on the

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platform, because maybe you wanna get a certified check for them if you're going into

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a a legal proceeding. And so we did build that, pretty much

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overnight for that landlord so that they could have it. We released it to everybody,

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so everyone has this part of the platform still today. But that was definitely one

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where We didn't necessarily anticipate needing something, but that feedback

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led to knowing what we needed to do, how we needed to do it, in

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terms of answering the question, should you allow us on Tenant basis or unit

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basis or property. And so honestly, that type of feedback really

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does. It makes it that you don't have to necessarily know every answer yourself.

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You happy, like, to listen to the people that that have problems and have

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a solution for it and then implement what they share with you. Just to remind

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everybody, we're talking to Ryan Barone with Rent at ready.com.

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Click that link in the show notes to head over there. And if you like

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what you hear so far, why don't you do us a quick favor and share

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it with one of your investor friends? So, Ryan,

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I'm curious regarding your on the entrepreneurship

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aspect of this. Since you've been in this now for 6, 7 years,

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You've probably have learned a ton of lessons. And even though we might not be

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in the similar type of business, you're doing a

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SAS product versus us doing rental properties and

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what have you. I'm sure that there's some cross pollination

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with some of the lessons you've learned on how to be an entrepreneur. Is

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there any lessons that you can share? Definitely. One of them

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that's One of my favorites is honestly just to get

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started. I think this I I've seen this both from the

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entrepreneurship perspective with software business, and I've

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also seen it even with independent investors we work with. It gets really easy to

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get stuck in that analysis paralysis stage of how do I

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find the perfect thing, analyze the perfect thing, build the perfect thing, whatever it

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is that you're trying to do. It gets really easy to get Stuck in that

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stage or feel like you have to have the perfect plan. In most cases, you

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need a plan, but you don't need the perfect plan. You need a good enough

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plan to get started and to be able to be flexible enough to change as

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you get more feedback from whoever your customer is or whoever,

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the person Buying your product or service or renting your unit might be. But

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in a lot of cases, being able to have a a good enough plan, open

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ears, and and just Start working on it can honestly get you a lot

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further, a lot faster than necessarily waiting for that, that perfect plan

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or perfect deal or whatever it might be. I can't stress that enough,

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especially when it comes to investing. There is a level. It

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seems if we could somehow measure it, there's a much higher percentage of

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people stuck in analysis paralysis than any other industry

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that I've run into. Yeah. I totally agree with you. I think more

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people Don't reach their goal because they don't start. Then

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people had started and then didn't have enough a good enough plan

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to reach their goal. So I I really do think getting out of that

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stage as quickly as you can is is

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better. You can always learn along the way, and certainly, I have

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Continue to. With as many investors using

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your platform as you have, I'm sure. Do you have any

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insights? Have you been able to collect reports or

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industry information that you could maybe share that

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kind of. Stoods out regarding trends or anything like

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that. We actually do. So there's the company,

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Shandon Economics, which is a a real estate economic research firm

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that we partnered with. And, basically, we release a a once a month

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report on, overall rent collection across the US to give an

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idea of what that looks like for the independent landlord segment.

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And it's been really helpful. We've had, landlords

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that have told us it's been helpful for them to understand, Like, how things are

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going in their particular an area they want to invest in. We've also even

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seen some interest on the policy level. It's one of those things where There's not

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a a ton of policy that's made, unfortunately, for this independent

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investor market or independent landlord market. And part of that is because

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Everyone on pet insurance don't happening, and so it's hard to make regulation around that.

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We've seen some interest even in that report just from the aspect of understanding

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how, for example, COVID impacted Independent landlords as opposed to maybe

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massive property management companies or or mid level property management

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companies. And it's one of those that I I hope we'll be able to do

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more of in the future. I really hope it'll help both the investors on the

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platform or those getting started on the platform, as well as just

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Overarching group across the US with more macro

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perspective of those reports. Going back to the third party integrations that

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we were chatting about. Are there any upcoming integrations or

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improvements that you have planned that you could share with us. There are

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definitely some big big updates Coming, I think probably the most recent

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one that came out was that we did a big partnership with Bigger Pockets. And

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basically that now anybody that is Already a pro member on there

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becomes 1 on there. Could basically just link over into RentRedi

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included. So that was a huge one for us. Biggerpox has

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honestly been one that we've talked to for a long time. We've known the team

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over there for years, but to actually get that, level of kind of

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endorsement in terms of Them supporting us and vice versa, partnering

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with them, I think has been a a big integration on the platform. It's it

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definitely excited a lot of people in terms of Being able to connect

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those 2. Yep. May maybe I'm missing some of the integration features

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as well. So I'd I'd be curious. Do you have

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Some like Zapier or any Asana, any of those

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type of integrations currently or planned?

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We don't currently do a Zapier one on the more Asana task

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management side. We do have tasks built into the platform, So landlords

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can add any tasks that they have for themselves or teammates and share with

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those, but not yet. Maybe it's one that should be on the list, though. I

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like it. Yeah. I had to put you on the spot for a second.

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So, you know, with we chatted a little bit about all of these

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aspects regarding the integration and the third parties and everything

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else. But one of the things that I have noticed with

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my tenants is having that app

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on their phone has been a big change.

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Like a lot of the other platforms don't just have a standard

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phone app that Right. Especially in my I have

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properties in the rural communities. This has been a actually a pretty

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big selling point for most. If

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if when it comes to landlords versus tenants, have you

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seen, like, a pretty big swing, especially when it comes to adoption?

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Yeah. I I think a lot of people are are similar to yourselves in terms

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of liking the that mobile app. And and it's funny. That was where

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I initially, when I was developing it for myself, I started with just a mobile

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app for myself and friends. And so it was looking at it even from the

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perspective of what would I want to use, what would be easiest for me to

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interact with things I need to do with the language. So I I think you're

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you're definitely not alone there. There's quite a few, on the platform that I've

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expressed that's a a huge benefit for them in Terms of

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the easier it is for a tenant to pay rent on the platform or sign

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their lease or submit the application to just get through the pipelines being able

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to rent unit be a good tenant for you, the better. So,

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that, the ease of use is definitely a piece of importance

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for us. And I think you're definitely right. The the mobile app, Especially in

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certain communities, especially today, you may be more likely to have a

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smartphone than you do a home computer at this point. So Being able to

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just meet people where wherever they are, if they have only a smartphone,

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no problem. You can still do everything you need to do there. You don't necessarily

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have to go get a hold of a computer in order to Pay your rent

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or do whatever else you're you need to do for that unit. Is there a

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feature in your platform that that people might be surprised

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that is included? I think one that I I haven't

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mentioned and they might be surprised about is honestly on the accounting side of

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things. So that was another integration, another partnership that we did.

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It's been really, really successful in terms of people being excited

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about having it, using it, continuing to to use it. Basically, we

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partnered with a a company, REI Hub, that Does, landlord

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accounting basically, we sync all of your we we were already collecting all

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of your revenue data for the rent that you collect. So being able to sync

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all of that, all of your properties, everything over to there and be able to

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actually connect the 2 platforms so you can come into RentRedi. And from

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RentRedi, access any of these the things you need on the accounting side of things.

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It's been a huge help for a lot of landlords because they can get P

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and L by property, for example, right out of the box from enabling this rather

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than if you were doing it in even in QuickBooks. You typically are setting up

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sub jobs to basically be able to get that P and L by property or

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by unit. So I think that's maybe one that I

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I don't necessarily talk as often about right off the bat, but I

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think it's one that a lot of people get very excited about once they try

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it out. I I can imagine that being the case when it comes to any

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kind of accounting and taxes and and anything for that

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matter, Any path of least resistance is welcomed. I

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just wanna remind everybody one last time, rentredi.com. We've

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only scratched the tip of the iceberg regarding the functionality

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in Ryan's, application there. So again, it's

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rentredi.com so you can get a detailed list of

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what this is available. And I think with

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I I even have a, affiliate link that I I probably

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include. So, to take advantage of whatever promotion that

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is being run at the moment. But, with that, Ryan,

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I warned you the the rapid fire questions were coming. Are you ready for

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them? I'm ready for them. Let's do it. I'm I'm gonna open

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this a little broader for you because not being directly involved in

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rental properties. I'd be curious if there is a business

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or real estate myth you'd like to bust here today.

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Yeah. I I think I would choose a a real estate and

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technology one that cross over, which would be honestly that

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you have to be a certain size or in a certain placed to be able

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to have technology make it easier to either manage or rent

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a property. Yeah. I think with technology, there's this feeling that

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once you get to X amount of units or X amount of doors or

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whatever it might be. Then you can use this thing that will help you.

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And even in, in our particular case, but certainly in others In

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the space. There's a lot of technology out there that can help you even if

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you have 1 single family unit, regardless of where you are in the

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country that you wanna manage and make easier for yourself. I can't

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agree more. In fact, it's surprising that especially

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investors such as the people that I work with,

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the amount of time that they will spend evaluating a property

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and and assessing the return on investment. But then they don't take a

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moment and just think about that return that can be

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garnered through a software

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or whatever. Every, everything can be justified through an ROI.

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Just Mhmm. Take a second. Do you have a book recommendation

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or what are you reading right now? I do have a book recommendation. Mine

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would be 0 to 1. It's one of my favorites. I go back to it

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all the time. I think it's a great book. I'll have to check that one

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out. I think I actually have it in my audible library. I just haven't queued

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it up yet. I love it. So every time somebody's on my

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show, I add another book to my Audible library. And I I don't know if,

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at this point, if I have enough time left in my life to listen to

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all. You need the the double speed. It's the only way to get

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through it all. So have you ever heard of that Blinkist? I think there's

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apps now that will summarize the books for you. I have. I've heard of

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it. It seems interesting. I haven't tried it myself yet, though. Yeah. I

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haven't tried it. It's but I can understand why people would use it.

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What is your biggest business mistake you've made, and what did you learn from it?

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I think that one would probably be going back to the just start. I think

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the biggest mistake I made was trying to build Something that was

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perfect before I let anybody use it. And what I really found was that once

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I let people start to use it, I got back

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far more Feedback ideas than I possibly

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could have gotten without it. And I I think the same thing applies to almost

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any business that the more that you can Garter any sort of

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feedback or put something out there and and start to get some

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response on the better. So I think that's been one of the big ones for

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me is just In terms of starting and collecting that feedback and iterating

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on it. If you could go back in time and give your younger self one

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piece of advice, what would that be? I think it would be Implementing

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the we this method of build, measure, learn, which actually comes from 0 to 1,

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is one that's been really successful. Using that from the beginning would

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be, I think really helpful, and I think it applies to anything you do

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even outside of business, just in life. But in terms of learning from

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something, Putting it into action in any sort of way,

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measuring the impact of that. Did it work? Did artwork? Why? Learn that

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again And and repeat that process. It can be really successful in terms

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of ultimately getting to wherever you wanna go, whether it's

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manager Software business or properties or play guitar

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or anything. You have 60 seconds, and you're gonna give everybody 1 piece

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of advice they can implement today to make a impact on their business.

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What would it be? I I think the the biggest one would be would

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actually be that build, measure, learn. It seems so simple, But if you but

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even before you as you are building, think about how am I going to

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measure this? What does success look like for me if I'm fast forwarding 6 months

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or a year from now? How will I look back and say, I did it,

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smile, be happy, whatever it is to help me get to that point,

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defining that measurement, Then implementing something and starting to see,

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am I making progress towards that goal, or do I do believe that's right? Is

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there anything I can learn from what I've done so far? And then

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iterating on that as I go. I I think it can really apply to

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truly anything you do, and I think it certainly helped me a

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lot. Definitely stealing from 0 to 1 in that in that respect,

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but I really do think it helps no matter what you're trying to accomplish.

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That's the whole point of this show is one of the our taglines is

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you can either put in the 10000 hours and become an become an

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expert or learn from somebody who's already made that investment. And that's exactly what

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you're doing in that situation. So, Ryan, this has been a great

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But is there a question or concept you wish we would have covered here today?

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The only one that I will ask is your landlord using

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RentRedi yourself. What would be your suggestion? Or

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the I we've talked a lot about things we build into the platform over time

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based on the feedback of independent investors on the platform and Things

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they have. What would be your what would be your top ask or your top

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suggestion of something you don't have today, but you'd love to see in the future?

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You put me on the spot, but I go back earlier. I think one of

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my questions actually foreshadowed one of the things I would

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ask is the, like the Zapier integration

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of some kind so that I can, but you're talking to, I I don't

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know if I can classify myself as a traditional landlord in

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in the fact that I'm a bit of a nerd. So that type of

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stuff doesn't scare me off like it might for others. I

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don't I don't see that as a low bar of entry. Definitely for me. I'm

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gonna do some of that, that type of thing. The other thing, anything

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else would be something I probably would share with you

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outside of the recording. I like it.

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So I really appreciate your time, Ryan. Again, it is

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rentredi.com that is ready with an I,

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I'll make sure to have that as a clickable link in the show notes, but

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thanks for your time, Ryan. Thanks again for having me.

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