Jesse Schmidt - Remodeling Renting

Can rental leases provide a pathway for building a career as a real estate agent? How did a high school friendship uncover the emerging co-living scene in New York? Why are real estate investors critical for the co-living business model? What sorts of opportunities are multifamily operators looking for to be innovative? Why would a successful real estate agent make the jump to a risky proptech startup? What is causing fewer and fewer renters to fit the ideal multifamily renter profile? Why do leasing agents have so few tools to help renters that don't fit the desired candidate renter profile? What have been some of the contributing factors to multifamily's slow adoption of technology? How did a chance meeting with a tech entrepreneur lead to a career switch? Why is bad debt such a problem for property owners?

Jesse Schmidt - SVP of Sales at TheGuarantors, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how his dad's job running The Real Estate Book for the northeast afforded him his first job as the on-staff real estate photographer for the publication, instilling in him a love for real estate and all the various forms on this asset class.