The #REALTYHACK Podcast

Part 1 of 2. We interviewed Jay Thompson, formerly the Director of Industry outreach with Zillow. Jay tells us about his journey with Zillow, the things that he did when he was with Zillow, including dealing with the haters, spreading Zillow's mission, as well as what he thinks Zillow's plan was and is now.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrod...

Is luxury real estate in Austin about to CRASH? We asked Wade Giles with The Giles Group at Moreland Properties about what's happening in the Austin real estate market. He gives us the market trends and tells us if Austin is in a real estate bubble. We also talk about the time on the market for luxury property and what's in store for luxury homes in the future.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyH...

DISCOVER everything you need to know to not get sued over copyright issues with real estate photographs. This is a slippery slope and a lot of real estate agents don't know how this works. Some photographers have used this as a means of income. We go through everything you need to know to not get sued by a photographer for Copyright issues and then interview a photographer who doesn't play those g...

In this day and age you're MISSING OUT if you're not marketing yourself on social media. Today on RealtyHack we have social media influencer and Spyglass Realty agent, Cindy Garcia, joining us to tell us her story and offer us a few tips along the way on how you can break into social media marketing yourself!   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanr...

How do you compete in a competitive market like Austin, when you're up against cash offers??? It's a MESS out there!!! Our guest on this episode of RealtyHack is Blake Outlaw from Homeward.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck YouTube:  RealtyHack LinkedIn:  Ryan Rodenbeck 🔗 Read the Blog Post: Prefer reading? Check out the blog version...

Vacation rentals are BOOMING in Austin and the hill country area. For agents, they offer a great selling point to clients, but can also be a tough area to navigate legally.  Erika Albert of E-Rae Realty joins us on this episode of RealtyHack to discuss selling vacation rentals and what you can do to capitalize on this industry effectively!   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook: ...

Property tax values in Austin are up at least 50% across the city. Homeowners are reacting with shock. Here are three ways that Austin real estate agents can add value and be trusted resources to their past, present, and future clients.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck YouTube:  RealtyHack LinkedIn:  Ryan Rodenbeck 🔗 Read the Blog P...

The spring 2022 Market is in full swing and inventory now is lower in most areas than it was last year.  We explore the variations from last year to this year and what buyers can do to compete in the most competitive real estate market in the world. Once again, we interview Chris Jacob with The Housing Report to go over the data and we strategize how to navigate this data and use it to your advant...

What's going on with the Austin real estate market? In January, Open Door sold 8.5% of all the sold listings on MLS. How does this impact our current inventory crisis? What does that mean for the next several months? We interviewed Chris Jacobs for our podcast and we dig into the data to interpret it and try to predict what the future holds... -- Ryan was awarded the Austin Platinum Top 50 Realtor...

Chief Real Estate Officer of Ojo Labs. Former CEO of Keller Williams. The GODFATHER of real estate. We're talking to Chris Heller today on how he built his business, his personal brand, and the story of his career. We're also going to talk about the future of real estate, automation in technology, and what agents are going to need to do to survive the purge of real estate from iBuyers and disrupto...

That's a season wrap! This week, we have Jimmy Mackin on the show. Jimmy is the co-founder of Curaytor , a full-service digital marketing company specializing in Facebook marketing and advertising. Created in 2013, Curaytor has been featured in Forbes, Inc, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and American Express Open Forum. Jimmy is also the co-host of the hit podcast #WaterCooler.   🔗 Connect with...

Zachary Maurais is the co-founder of Favor, a popular runner software that was popular even before the Pandemic Fifteen. With the debut of Sunroom, a venture-backed tech startup based in Austin that focuses on bringing openness and speed to the lease listing and application process, he's moved on to a new enterprise. He met our fundamental demands for grocery delivery and Friday wings, and now he'...

Today Ryan and Suneet talked about what made him start his team, and when did he start with his training regiment. We also talked about how a team leader or a broker should form their organization, particularly in terms of leadership, hierarchy, and scheduling of meetings. Aside from that, he also enumerated three to four things that an agent should look for in a brokerage. Furthermore, Agarwal al...

Today we had Dean Linnell of The Linnell Group at Whistler Real Estate. In today's podcast Dean talked about their services, how they start their training regiment, how they structure their organization in terms of leadership, hierarchy, and meeting schedules, the things agent needs to look for in a brokerage, some of the mistakes he made, and what's next for Whistler Real Estate.   🔗 Connect wit...

Today we had Dan Corkill of Follow Up Boss. A simple sales-focused CRM, self funded, profitable company started back in April of 2011, fully remote with a mostly US-based team. In today's podcast, we walk through the journey of Dan, how he started with Follow Up Boss, moving from his hometown Australia to establishing his career in Austin, Texas, how their CRM services can help real estate compani...

Today we had Morgan Carey, CEO Real Estate Webmasters Inc drives billions of dollars in yearly real estate sales via his software and marketing company. Named as one of the 200 most powerful people in real estate (Swanepoel 2015-2020), Inman 100 Most Influential People and finalist for coveted Ernst And Young Entrepreneur of the year in Canada 5 years straight. He was also invited into Google's GC...

Today we had Amy Youngren of North Group Real Estate. With 16 years of industry experience, Amy's roles have ranged from corporate executive to sought-after speaker to Founder of North Group. In today's podcast, we walk through her professional history, how she rebrand and reinvent North Group, the new work set-up from using different platforms and channels, the mistakes she's made along the way,...

Isabel Affinito is the Founder and Team Real Estate Lead of the WIRE Group in Spyglass Realty. In her work as a team leader, Isabel is inspired by growth, and supporting the women on her team in their growth. In today's podcast, we go over her professional history, how she decided to build an all-women team for real estate, the mistakes she's made along the way, and what's to come for the WIRE tea...

We're starting a new series on this podcast for interviewing stellar leaders in the real estate industry. Today we have Howard Tager, Co-founder and CEO at Ylopo LLC. Howard is the co-founder and CEO of Ylopo, a "next generation" digital marketing technology company in the real estate and mortgage lending industries.  Recently named to the Real Estate Almanac's 2021 "Power 200" which ranks the mos...

Today we had Anthony Lamacchia of Lamacchia Companies Inc., which has over 400 agents servicing 6 states to talk about how to implement a training program for team leaders and brokers. We spoke about Anthony's journey in real estate from starting a team to starting a brokerage. He shares how he operate his team model, training regiment and how to structure their organization based on leadership, h...

Today we had Ryan and Meredith, Realtor at Compass to talk about How To Begin In The Luxury Industry. We spoke about how her passion for people, architecture and design started her career in real estate. Meredith also shares her tremendous experience and success in professional services, sales, and technology. She also talked about her average price range when she started and landed a $10 million...

Today we had Ryan and Clint, the co-founder of Rêve Realtors to talk about Market Comparison: Austin vs. New Orleans. We spoke about Clint's real estate background and how he establish his own realty business from agent recruitment, training, systems, marketing and goal planning. They also discuss about the status of New Orleans Real Estate market and vacation rentals. Clint also share some tips f...

Today we had Ryan, Brittney and Spyglass Realtors talk about Brittney Pino's 5 Levers To Success. We spoke about Brittney's real estate story and how she built her own business. We also spoke about these 5 Lever's of Success which are producing effective and efficient real estate videos, leveraging with your people that truly helps serve the clients and the business, nurturing your database and as...

In today's podcast, we are featuring Spyglass' very own Joey Wilkes on her first year of real estate, how she managed to score $10 million in contract-to-close within 2021, and advice she has for other agents to achieve the same.