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The Art of Revitalizing Communities with Bruno Group
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09/29/21 • 46 min
"Just like we thoughtfully model and underwrite projects, we thoughtfully review the feasibility in a lot of different areas to ensure that we can truly unlock the value and have a clear path to a successful project." — Elliot MacNeil
Adaptive reuse is better for the environment, contributes towards increasing supply in densely populated and competitive urban centers, presents interesting design challenges for architects, and saves developers money. At least, that is what today's guests believe! Please join us in welcoming Joe Nickerson and Elliot MacNeil. Joe is the Vice President and Partner and Elliot is the Founder and President of Bruno Group, a Nova Scotia-based design-build company that helps growing families and businesses reimagine and expand their space.
In this episode, we reflect on the case that they make for adaptive reuse versus new construction and learn how the Bruno Group is creating memorable spaces that highlight existing features, preserve historical structures, and focus on character as part of their creative vision. We also touch on the affordable housing crisis, what they are doing to combat it, and the pros and cons of converting commercial spaces into mixed-use or residential, as well as the impact that COVID has had on Joe and Elliot's mixed-use area redevelopment strategy. Joe and Elliot also share their advice for those looking to build or invest in Nova Scotia and the role that knowing and understanding their market has played in their success. Tune in today to learn more!
Key points from this episode:
- An introduction to Elliot MacNeil, his background, and his obsession with building things
- Learn more about Joe Nickerson, his career path, and how he and Elliot met
- Find out how their mixed-use area redevelopment strategy was impacted by COVID
- Some of the pros and cons of converting commercial spaces into mixed-use or residential
- Elliot and Joe on why maintaining original character is part of their strategy with every conversion and adaptive reuse play
- What they look for in an area redevelopment project, including location and the numbers
- Joe on what the Bruno Group is doing to tackle the affordable housing crisis in Nova Scotia
- Some of the red tape that makes accessing grant money and subsidies difficult
- Learn more about the creative vision behind their projects and why they love existing builds
- Why character is key; the value of highlighting existing features in a redevelopment project
- Advice for those looking to build or invest in Nova Scotia: focus on per square foot rates
- Why Joe says that knowing and understanding their market has been key to their success; get boots on the ground rather than reading reports
- Elliot elaborates on the benefits of understanding construction and starting small
- The challenges of scaling in this business; don't be afraid to ask for money!
- Hear from Joe and Elliot about their growth and expansion plans for the Bruno Group
- The importance of staying focused in the face of ever-expanding opportunities
Spotting New Investment Opportunities in the US & Canada
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01/26/22 • 33 min
“You've got to actually go in and see it, there's no deal that we would ever do without actually taking a look and seeing the property.” — Ben Zlotnick
Today on Sync or Swim, we interrupt Ben Zlotnick’s family vacation to talk to him about his prolific career as a serial entrepreneur. Ben is the co-founder of Alexandra Capital, founder of Eden App, and founder of BTB Investments. In our conversation, he fills us in on how he merged his service and technology knowledge, and experience to launch Eden App, and shares its use case opportunity in terms of real estate. The topic of real estate investment swings to the fore and we go on to discuss Ben’s modus operandi when it comes to choosing where to invest, and what property types to invest in! We find out which US cities and states Ben has identified as exponential growth markets and how to recognize an investment opportunity. Ben generously shares some of the exciting projects he’s working on and emphasizes the importance of finding a suitable broker to work with. Tune in to discover why you should never make a deal without viewing a property, and why you should always work with a local third-party manager! Key points from this episode:
- How Ben merged his service experience and his technology experience to launch Eden App
- Ben shares the use case opportunity for Eden App in terms of real estate.
- He summarizes what’s happening in PropTech and the current market.
- What property management software Ben finds useful.
- Ben explains his opportunistic approach to real estate, commercial and otherwise.
- How he is converting a hotel in Vegas into a multifamily property!
- The US states and cities Ben has identified as growth markets
- Why Ben will never make deals without seeing a property
- The growth opportunities in Canada versus the US.
- How to identify an investment opportunity
- Ben fills us in on some of the exciting projects he’s working on!
- Why it’s important to find a suitable broker to work with.
- How Ben approaches marketing and management to fill his properties with tenants
- Why he only works with local third-party managers
ChatGPT, Rentals.ca, Rent Control, and More with Max Steinman
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05/31/23 • 43 min
This episode of the Sync or Swim Podcast is incredibly exciting as we are joined by Rentsync’s CEO, Max Steinman, for the very first in-person episode! Tuning in, you will hear all about the amazing changes that have happened at Rentsync over the last year, namely the integration of ChatGPT, before we delve into how AI impacts the housing industry as a whole. We discuss how Rentals.ca has evolved, its new network, Rentsync’s tours module, and so much more! Next, Max shares his wisdom about the supply issue in the housing industry, what’s causing it, how to get rid of it, and why rent control is a huge issue. Financialization, according to Max, is just another word for capitalism, and in this episode, he tells us why we shouldn’t demonize it and why rent evictions are a problem. Finally, we end on a positive note as we discuss how commercial space is being transformed. Thanks for listening in!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing today’s guest, Rentsync’s very own CEO, Max Steinman.
- Max takes us through some of the exciting changes that have happened at Rentsync.
- How we have integrated with ChatGPT and how it makes life easier for property managers.
- Max shares his thoughts on AI and how he sees it impacting the rental housing industry.
- The evolution of Rentals.ca over the past year.
- Our guest tells us about the Rentals.ca network and his excitement about that initiative.
- Rentsync’s new tours module and all about the tours webinar.
- Why Max thinks we’re facing a supply issue in the housing market and how to get out of it.
- The challenges with rent control and how, historically, it always has a negative outcome.
- Why Max believes that financialization is just a synonym for capitalism and his thoughts on it.
- Rent evictions and how a wedge is driven between the tenant and landlord’s best interests.
- The positive transformation of commercial space is happening in the market now.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
A Deep Dive Into Rental Demand Across Canada
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09/15/21 • 25 min
"What blew me away was really how much demand there was for these smaller markets. Even when you take Covid, work-from-home, and everything out of the picture, how much more per property demand there is in some of these small communities." — Matt D'Avirro
Data isn't very useful if it's not accessible or effective at communicating a message. It's just a bunch of numbers after all. That's why Matt D'Avirro, Marketing Operations Manager at Rentsync, is instrumental in using data and automation to make sales and marketing easier, and help influence future business decisions. That's why it's no surprise that Matt also conceptualized Rentsync's National Rental Demand Report, which maps demand throughout the country. In this episode, Matt walks us through the impetus for this report and offers insights into how developers and marketers can best use it. We dive into some of the trends that have occurred over the last year, like COVID, work from home, and a boom in smaller markets. Matt talks about the implications of these trends and why they should be looked at from a long-term perspective. Wrapping up, we talk about what property developers should be focussing on, and Matt speculates what the next few months have in store.
Tune in today to hear it all!
Key points from this episode:
- Get to know today's guest, Matt D'Avirro, and what his role entails
- The origin story of the National Rental Demand Report
- Differentiating between leading and lagging indicators
- Some of the ways that Rentsync's data is unique
- Unpacking the major trends of the past year, including Covid, increased demand, and more
- What is driving demand in high-growth areas in Canada
- A trend that has been the most surprising to Matt
- The importance of looking at alternative rental strategies
- Where developers should be placing their focus right now
- How marketers can make the most out of this report
- What would surprise Matt the most in the upcoming months
Links mentioned in today's episode:
Matt D'Avirro on LinkedIn Rentsync National Rental Demand Report [email protected]
The State of Purpose-Built Rentals in the GTA
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03/08/23 • 41 min
What role does purpose-built rental housing play in our housing solution? Today’s guest passionately believes that it’s going to play a big part and that we need to recognize, prioritize, and support that both as a society and as policy-makers. Tony Irwin is the President and CEO of The Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO). Tuning in, you’ll hear his thoughts on the necessity of taking immediate action to promote purpose-built construction, the impact of population growth and immigration, and how affordability issues are impacting the rental landscape today. We touch on obstacles to building purpose-built rentals, renters’ stigma, and the positive evolution of the rental housing industry. Hear Tony’s take on the true root of the affordability challenge, barriers faced by smaller rental operators, and what he recommends for the next housing bill. Tune in today to hear all this and more!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing Tony Irwin, President and CEO of FRPO.
- How the Purpose-Built Rental Report came together.
- An overview of the current state of Purpose-Built Rentals in the GTA.
- Why it is necessary to take immediate action to incentivize more purpose-built construction.
- The impact of population growth and immigration.
- How affordability issues are impacting the rental landscape.
- Challenges to building purpose-built rentals.
- The stigma attached to renters versus owners.
- Obstacles posed by parking laws.
- How FRPO is approaching pending policy changes.
- Why the evolution of the rental housing industry is a positive thing.
- What the affordability challenge in the rental housing market can truly be attributed to.
- Challenges faced by smaller rental operators.
- Tony’s recommendation to boost density for the next housing bill.
- The importance of getting more people to do skills training.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Making Your Multifamily Marketing Remarkable with Jay Baer, Best-Selling Author & Founder of Convince and Convert
Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show
11/25/20 • 27 min
"Your competitive weapon is to deliver something to the residents that they don't expect, and in doing so, turn them into advocates for the property."
You don't have a secret sauce. Oh, but you do, you say? You have nice properties, smart amenities, and friendly leasing staff? So do all your competitors. Your only advantage is experiential. So your competitive weapon is to deliver something to the residents that they don't expect, and in doing so, turn them into advocates for the property
That's our topic for this episode of Sync or Swim.
Featuring:
Jay Baer, a trusted adviser to some of the world's most iconic brands and author of six bestselling books, including Youtility for Real Estate: Why Smart Real Estate Professionals are Helping, Not Selling. Jay is also the founder of Convince and Convert Consulting, a digital marketing and customer experience advisory firm that helps the world's most iconic brands gain and keep more customers.
What we talked about:
- Jay's seven-generation heritage of entrepreneurship and how it affects his work today
- What "youtility" is and how it adds value to your work
- How to attract tenants who might be thinking of leaving the big city
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Overcoming Growing Pains in Property Management with Colin Douthit
Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show
08/11/21 • 20 min
“Technology has definitely allowed us to scale, knowing that we wanted to scale, focusing our efforts on making sure all of our systems could handle that. It would have been a lot harder if every 75 doors, we had to get another person on staff, right? We’re able to stretch staff a little further because of technology.” — @atlaspm
Managing 1000 multifamily properties is no easy feat. You need good people, good systems, and good tools to make it run as smoothly as possible. Atlas Property Management has mastered these components, and with over 1000 doors under their belt, they are not showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. Colin Douthit, the company’s owner, joins us today to share insights on what it takes to manage a multifamily portfolio of this size. We hear about the impetus for starting Atlas, how they have managed to scale as quickly as they did, and what they did to overcome their growing pains. Colin also talks about some of the tools that help streamline property management. With more apps and platforms in the industry than ever before, there is no shortage of how property managers can leverage tech to suit their needs. Wrapping up, Colin talks about what’s in the pipeline for Atlas. Tune in to hear it all.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Get to know today’s guest, Colin Douthit
- The impetus for starting Atlas Property Management and its current management portfolio
- How Atlas has managed to scale up their doors under management over time
- What Colin would do differently if he had the opportunity
- Hear what contributed to Atlas being able to scale as quickly as they did over 12 months
- Atlas’s staff hiring process and how this has contributed to the company’s evolution
- Some of the tools in Atlas’s tech stack
- The biggest changes Colin has seen in property management over the past four years
- How technology has allowed property management companies to scale
- What the impact of the pandemic on the Kansas City property market was
- Some of the metrics that Atlas’s clients typically request
- Why institutional investors are increasingly looking for granular data
- What’s on the horizon for Atlas
- Five questions in 30 seconds: hear what Colin has to say
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Live on Stage: Lease-up, Operations and Property Management
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11/24/21 • 50 min
"...you can imagine when you hit a renter with a 7% increase and they're expecting something that's sub 2%, that's problematic, and it can lead to turnover, it can lead to notices, and so really it's about managing and massaging the messaging, and it's all about the team, it's about the team component." – Ryan Funt, Live on Stage at the Affordable Housing & New Apartment Development Seminar
In this live episode of Sync or Swim, Rentsync's VP of Growth, Max Steinman moderates the Lease-up, Operations and Property Management panel at SVN Rock's Live on Stage event for Affordable Housing & New Apartment Development. The panel features marketing and leasing experts, Todd Nishimura, Senior Director, Marketing, Leasing and Communications at GWLRA, Ryan Funt, Director of Marketing at Fitzrovia and Lisa Jean, Director of Leasing at SVN Rock Advisors, who share their years of expertise helping new builds go from lease up to stabilization. In this conversation you'll hear advice from the panel about:
- The key components of a sound lease up marketing and advertising strategy in 2021/22 and how do you know when to start with these strategies?
- How can you then differentiate yourself from others and set yourself apart from the competition?
- Examples of marketing that is impactful, successful and unique
- The importance of a professionalized leasing staff
- Why training typically sets a great leasing staff aside from a good leasing staff
- How Fitzrovia connects it's leasing staff to its marketing efforts
- How GWL measures the success of its leasing staff
- Changes in the marketing strategy as an asset reaches stabilization
- The changes in leasing strategy upon stabilization
- How to mitigate high turnover post-lease up
- How operating a brand new building differs from operating a stabilized asset
- Operational decisions that either positively or negatively impact marketing and leasing efforts
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List to Lease: How Tech Is Transforming Multifamily for the Better
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10/13/21 • 22 min
“I think a big question is how do you make marketing and leasing processes easier, but still allow for enough flexibility and personalization so that you can still make each property more compelling to prospective renters? That's the problem we're trying to solve here.” — Suhasini Gadam
In April of this year, Rentsync replatformed and launched some incredible new tools for the property industry. As we start to fully leverage the power of the new Rentsync platform, today we discuss some of the biggest challenges property managers, marketers, and leasing agents face when it comes to automating tasks and getting things done in an effective and timely manner. In this episode, we are joined by Rentsync’s Senior Product Manager, Suhasini Gadam. As a product manager, it is her job to understand what Rentsync’s customers need, develop new features, enhance the user experience, and make everyday tasks easier. Tuning in, you’ll hear about the most common requests from multifamily marketers looking for tools to help them work more efficiently, some of the most popular tools users are taking advantage of, and the most significant improvements made to the new Rentsync platform since its launch. Listen in to find out why autoresponders are so important to the leasing process, why resisting the adoption of more digital processes is counterproductive, and what Rentsync has in the pipeline for the coming weeks and months. With the constant rapid evolution of technology, you don’t want to get left behind, so tune in today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- An introduction to Suhasini Gadam and her role at Rentsync
- The most common requests from multifamily marketers looking for tools to help them do their work better and faster.
- Why user experience seems to be the biggest pain point.
- Some of the most popular tools users are taking advantage of and why.
- Why autoresponders are so necessary to speed up the leasing process.
- The most significant improvements made to the new Rentsync platform since its launch.
- Why it is necessary and beneficial to phase out the legacy dashboard.
- What is motivating the platform’s new features and why they are so needed.
- Why this industry has taken so long to develop tools for marketers and leasing agents.
- How the pandemic accelerated the industry’s adoption of more digital processes.
- The main reasons why people in this industry resist adopting new technologies.
- What Rentsync has in the pipeline for the coming weeks and months.
- Rentsync’s new media management tools and how they can help customers.
- Thoughts on how far away Rentsync is from removing fragmented workflows from the rental industry.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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Behind the Numbers: Looking Back on Rental Trends of 2023
Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show
12/18/23 • 44 min
In this episode, we take a look back at 2023 and the rental trends reported by Rentsync and Rentals.ca. The Canadian housing market seems to be setting and breaking records each day, but does the good outweigh the bad? To help us make sense of Rentals.ca and Urbanations's report, we are joined by three of its influential contributors; the Product Manager of Data Services at Rentsync, David Aizikov, the CEO of Rentsync, Max Steinman, and the President of Urbanation, Shaun Hildebrand. The trio is here to walk us through their findings, which include the steady of flow new rental trends that have played out throughout the year, supply and demand numbers, the undeniable national crisis relating to the cost of living, and the possible impact that reduced housing may have once it enters the market from 2024 onwards. We also learn about the hidden opportunities of affordability, the fears that most prospective homeowners share, the communal relief that rent and housing is top-of-mind for mainstream media and policy-makers, and what renters and landlords can expect from the market in 2024 and beyond.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing three key compilers of Rentals.ca and Urbanations's annual rental report, David Aizikov, Max Steinman, and Shaun Hildebrand.
- Assessing the consistency of new rental trends that we've witnessed throughout the year.
- Supply and demand numbers, and the factors that affect them.
- The cost-of-living crisis.
- Exploring the possible impact of reduced housing's addition to the supply in 2024.
- Whether the softening of demand and leveling of rents is closer than we may realize.
- Community upliftment and other opportunities of affordability.
- The fears of a prospective homeowner.
- What it means for housing and rent to be at the top of policy-making agendas.
- How landlords and renters ended up understanding the other's perspective.
- What renters and landlords can expect from the market in 2024 and beyond.
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How many episodes does Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show have?
Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show currently has 88 episodes available.
What topics does Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show cover?
The podcast is about Marketing, Management, Multifamily, Podcasts, Realestate and Business.
What is the most popular episode on Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show?
The episode title 'Infusing Humour into the Leasing Process with Jon Selig, Founder of Comedy Writing for Sales Teams' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show?
The average episode length on Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show is 32 minutes.
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Episodes of Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show are typically released every 14 days.
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The first episode of Sync or Swim: The Multifamily Growth Show was released on Jul 1, 2020.
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