Landlords
topic on 6 shows · 12 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
BigDeal 
A Product Market Fit Show 
Top Founders 
How I Built This 
the a16z Podcast
12 statements about Landlords, every show
Gladwell: Housing crisis stems from not building and blocking market forces
“Oh, we're just not building enough of it. You know, for a million stupid reasons, and we've let existing homeowners close the door to potential homeowners. We treat landlords like enemies. We think the rules of the marketplace don't apply when it comes to hous…”
Rampell: Rent-to-own models lower housing costs by aligning tenant and landlord incentives
“If you know that you're going to buy your rental, you'll probably take better care of it. If you take better care of it, Well, the landlord doesn't have to worry about as many things, and then the cost goes down.”
Shedden: Chroma botched discovery by asking leading questions to confirm its solution
“We sort of came up with the solution before we knew the problem. And so we just, you know, just like, oh, we're going to intuit our way to a platform that solves all these problems. And so when we started to have those conversations with landlords, small and b…”
Steve Zhao: Sandbox VR convinced landlords to fully fund new buildouts
“We were able to convince landlord to fund our project entirely.”
RentRedi Customers Pay an Average of Just $9 Per Month
“Believe it or not, they only pay nine dollars a month on average, and that's total per unit.”
Segal: Landlords funded store build-outs during Crate & Barrel's expansion
“And what happened starting in that big expansion was landlords started paying for a lot of the build out of the store.
Building of the building and whatever.
So we didn't have to take as much of our financial risk ourselves, because the landlords built these s…”
Mitchell: Landlords face two principal risks: vacancy costs and tenant defaults
“A landlord principally has two risks with a vacant property. A, the, you know, the vacancy risk itself. So the lost income and the carrying costs from owning that asset every single day. If they're not generating income, that's a loss. But then when they lease…”
Mitchell: Traditional residential leasing agents bear zero financial downside for vacant units
“Frequently there are agents whether there be brokers or other parties who Don't have skin in the game. So, you know, the landlord who is effectively at risk of, you know, finding a bad tenant or not finding a tenant fast enough and losing money, they don't hav…”
Mitchell: Rezi advances landlords between $30,000 and $50,000 upfront per apartment unit
“Depending on, you know, depending on a given transaction, it could be anywhere from call it 30 to 50,000 dollars.”
Mitchell: Existing landlord price discovery tools lack precision around specific property amenities
“Because, you know, the thing is, when you think about the resources that landlords have to kind of get price discovery you know, the tools are not very nuanced and precise. They don't provide the landlord insight.”
Mitchell: Real estate landlords are a notoriously nebulous customer segment for sales
“I think landlords are probably one of the more nebulous communities to figure out how to sell to.”
Mitchell: Rezi screens tenants better than independent landlords in 90% of cases
“We really try to balance this line between giving a great experience, but also verifying that we're screening, you know, I would say probably 90% of the cases we're Probably screening better than our landlord clients would have if they hadn't used this.”