It’s the second episode of The Real Estate Tech Show and it’s time for Joe to interview Cory Boatright! Both of us are total nerds when it comes to tech, but Cory’s been tinkering with real estate and technology for almost a decade now.  Cory adopted tech early on, and he’s used it to basically transform the real estate investing world for good.

Cory started out as a wholesaler, but it was technology that really inspired him to look at real estate in a whole new way. Without technology, Cory never would have discovered short sales. Now he’s known as the Oklahoma Short Sale Guy not just because he’s an amazing real estate investor but because he used the internet to build his brand and his reputation. He was connecting with investors on message boards back in the day, answering questions on threads and personal emails. Cory embraced technology at a time when it was brand new, and he used these tools to share his expertise. He is one of the first real estate investors to use webinars to help teach other up-and-coming investors, and it turned into an amazing networking tool that connected him with so many mentors in this industry.

Technology helps you continue learning.  It gives us access to one another and to information that would otherwise be unavailable. Knowing how to use technology to get what you need is what this podcast is all about. Both of us love using technology to help each other out, and Cory is so inspired by teaching people like you how to use this technology and make it work for their investments. We’ve put together a toolkit of our Top 10 Favorite Tech Tools that should help you get started, and Cory shares a bit more about his favorite apps on today’s episode. So tune in now and meet Cory Boatright!

MINUTE MARKERS

1:50 Check out Cory’s old videos!

2:56 When did Cory get into wholesaling?

5:50 Why was Cory teaching people about short sales?

7:10 How did Cory sell his first webinar?

10:35 A walk down memory lane with the Virtual Investing Seminar

12:38 Make technology work for you!

18:40 Using technology to coach and mentor

20:26 Technology creates leverage

23:54 What is it like to build your own apps?

28:29 Did Cory really own a mobile app company?

32:03 What’s on Cory’s radar right now?

33:50 How to build a website

35:16 What brand new tech does Cory want to invent?

38:38 Where is the future of tech headed?

41:34 How to engage with technology in the future

RESOURCES

Top 10 Toolkit

Short Sale Builder

House Price Robot

Podio

Investor Fuse

Opendoor

Chris Daigle

QUOTES

“I really didn’t embrace real estate in a way where it was something I thought I could do full time until many years into just dabble around and playing with it as a hobby. It wasn’t until really I started to understand this concept of wholesaling…that really changed the game.” Cory

 

“When blood’s in the street, there’s somebody making some kind of opportunity from it.” Cory

 

“If you had expertise in something, you could use technology to create a course and teach them about it.” Cory

 

“There are tools that you can use that you can quickly create templates and create a canned responses to save a ton of time on things, you can hit a button now and send out offers.” Cory

 

“I’ve always thought that simplicity has a lot of power to it.” Cory

 

“There is an opportunity right now where technology is integrating with real estate where it’s doing its best to cut out a real estate agent.” Cory

 

“The reality is that where we’re going in the future is all about engagement. This word ‘engagement’ is going to be the single biggest word that you’re going to see these companies going after, this is going to be the biggest KPI for them.” Cory

 

“Technology is good…It’s just a tool. The way that you use it, it can either take advantage of you or you can take advantage of it.” Cory