Tyler Christiansen and Dom Beveridge discuss the five top takeaways from the inaugural Forum: 

1. Community and how this event helped leaders in the industry share ideas and solve problems. 
2. How to cash out on centralization workshop that Dom led. 
3. The new operating model
4. The new operating model and what it means for third-party managers. 
5. Artificial intelligence. 

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This month Alex Howe and Tyler Christiansen discussed:

— FORUM

— NMHC top 50 list

— Blackstone acquisition of Apartment Income REIT (AIR Communities) 

— Rise of multifamily delinquent loans

— YIMBYism

— Credit card fees

— Insurance rates

Johnny Hanna, Funnel CRO, made a guest appearance to discuss: 

— NAR settlement

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Steve Lefkovits created many of the most beloved events in multifamily including OPTECH and the AIM conference. Johnny Hanna, CRO, Funnel talked with Steve about the importance of skill development, and adapting to market changes. 

Steve shares how things have changed over the years and what he thinks is ahead in this real estate cycle. 

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About Steve:

Steve is a veteran multifamily executive, advisor, and investor. 

He serves as:

• Partner and executive producer at Joshua Tree Conference Group and Joshua Tree Consulting. JTCG provides content-rich executive education for the multifamily housing industry. Its events include the Apartment Internet Marketing Conference (AIM Conference - aimconf.com.

• (Retired) Partner in RealtyCom Partners, LLC. RealtyCom (realtycompartners.com) is the multifamily housing industry’s largest telecommunications consulting firm

Steve previously served as a Senior Vice President for Technology Initiatives for a publicly-traded REIT - BRE Properties and as Vice President for Finance and Technology of the National Multi Housing Council (nmhc.org) in Washington, DC.

While at NMHC, he pioneered the NMHC Technology Forum, a new business practice area devoted to the efficient, profitable adoption of technology in the multifamily industry. While there, he started the NMHC OpTech Conference, which is still the industry’s leading gathering on technology for multifamily owners.

Steve is an advisor or investor in a dozen proptech and multifamily investment companies, and a board member of Real Estate Business Analytics (REBA, Inc.).

Steve earned a master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, and an undergraduate economics degree from Yale University.

In 2014, Steve was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the San Francisco Region Water Quality Control Board, serving through 2019. He currently serves as an alternate commissioner on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Steve has served as Vice Chair of the Mid Peninsula Housing Coalition, the leading low-income housing developer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Steve is also a professional landscape and nature photographer with a gallery located in Emeryville, CA. His work may be seen at www.pacific-landscapes.com or Instagram.com/stevelefkophoto.

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Welcome back to the February report - today we’ll cover: 

• BH’s acquisition
• Dom Beveridge’s brand new 20 for 20
• Revenue management lawsuits in the hotel industry 
• AirCanada + the curious AI chatbot case
• New state-level lawsuits + legislation
• The latest on inflation and housing costs
• The Forum is this month

Let’s get into it. 

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Johnny Hanna sat down with Jennifer Staciokas the President of Western Wealth Communities and Vice President, People and Technology at Western Wealth Capital. 

They talked about the importance of raising your hand and saying yes to opportunities to grow your career and impact in multifamily. 

Jennifer shared her unique perspective on the blurred line between people and technology.

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On the February 7th edition of The Report, Tyler and Alex discussed rent reporting. 

Jake Holzman, SVP Operations at Imagine Homes, responded with a unique and nuanced perspective about rent reporting. We invited him on the show for a healthy debate. 

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 

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Last week in the Report we shared about many of the biggest stories in multifamily.

Since then, we heard from Dom Beveridge, founder of 20 for 20, multifamily thought leader and friend of the pod.

Dom came on to a new format of Multifamily Unpacked, The Response, and shared his insights on what's happening in litigation and legislation, particularly in Colorado.

Read Dom's most recent blog about this topic here, and listen wherever you get your podcast. 

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Welcome back to The Report. This month Tyler Christiansen, CEO of Funnel, and Alex Howe VP of Marketing + Growth at Funnel will discuss: 

• NMHC annual recap
• The Greystar Wood partnership + the rise of mega managers
• The record supply of new apartments coming online
• BILT’s valuation
• Rent reporting and credit scores
• Fraud’s costly spike
• Multifamily goes mainstream news + ongoing class action suits
• The Forum

If you have a unique perspective on any multifamily news, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll include your question or opinion on the show. 

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Leverage AI for good. The good of your teams, your management, and your renters. 

See how recent advancements in AI, like Chat-GPT, can create optimal renter experiences, give teams a hand, and equitably help renters find their next home from the people who actually build AI every day, and with it, multifamily’s future. 

Tune in to hear Jess Groff VP of Product, Mallory Sheibley Product Manager, and James Chryssanthacopoulos Data Scientist share the behind-the-scenes look at how not all products are created equally, how AI models are trained, and how AI will change multifamily. 

“The difference in AI and Automation can be seen in the market today in certain chatbots, for example. If you’ve ever interacted with a chatbot where you have to choose and click buttons for predefined options, you’re going down a rule-based click path that falls under the automation umbrella versus actually using an AI model to understand what the input is saying.”

— Mallory Sheibley, AI Product Manager, on what AI isn’t 

“Garbage in, garbage out. If you feed the training algorithm garbage it’s going to return to your garbage, and I think if you want to adapt that to this instance it’s bias in, bias out. If your data set is biased, you’re going to get a model that is also biased.”

— James Chryssanthacopoulos Data Scientist, on how bias is perpetuated with AI

If you enjoyed learning more about AI, please join us at The Forum an exclusive multifamily event for believers in a better operating model. 

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Jerry Davis, the former COO at UDR, and affectionately known as the godfather of centralization joined Tyler Christiansen on the podcast today to kick off Season 3 of Multifamily Unpacked. 

They discussed UDR’s journey through centralization and the new operating model as well as the opportunities that operators have now for incremental revenue, and costs savings by operating with greater efficiency. 

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 

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