Ryan Dezember

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How Wall Street Investors Become America's Landlords · 18 Sep 2018 podcast

They have to sift through a lot of listings to find what they want. voice-verified

And so they've used some sophisticated technology to do that. voice-verified

Yeah, so he and some partners were investing some money they had in foreclosed properties just like a lot of other investors. voice-verified

They, because of his background using sort of big data and sort of sorting that and developing algorithms and systems for the computer to sort of learn on its own and handle a lot of these tasks. voice-verified

He started using that in his own investing, and it caught the attention of other investors. voice-verified

And over time, he realized for his skill set, he's probably better to supply the software and do the work for other investors rather than be a big landlord himself. voice-verified

Yeah, it's sort of grown from sort of simple things like we want homes that have, you know, at least three bedrooms, two baths, a garage and are in a homeowners association in, you know, these zip codes to sort of more... voice-verified

More of the sort of things that a human would just know intuitively if you, you know, drove to an open house and went inside and saw a house like the example we highlighted in the story is, you know, how do you teach a computer to identify a sunny kitchen? voice-verified

Yeah, and that's sort of where machine learning comes in. voice-verified

Again, they don't have time to scan or look through, say, 40,000 listings in Atlanta or in the Atlanta area every day. voice-verified

So they use a computer to sort of winnow the list to a sort of manageable number of properties to actually have a human look through. voice-verified

They might go from 40,000 to a dozen homes for a human to then vet. voice-verified

But, you know, one of the things they might want to say, the investors say, well, our tenants want a sunny kitchen. voice-verified

So they teach a computer, you know, to do that, the computer first has to know what the heck's a kitchen. voice-verified

What does sunny mean? voice-verified

So they start by sort of programming the computer to identify cooking spaces and to identify things like windows in pictures or light fixtures. voice-verified

And then they take it from there. voice-verified

And it's just really a matter of a lot of repetition. voice-verified

Showing a computer a picture of a kitchen saying, this is a kitchen. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

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