Acquisition Assistant
A platform designed to help scale the underwriting & purchases of real estate properties for a local prop-tech startup.
HOW IT WORKS
Arrived Homes is an up-and-coming property tech startup and the sponsor for this capstone project. Their business model allows anyone to invest in real estate without buying a home or dealing with operational headaches.
1
Browse Homes
Browse Arrived homes, each pre-vetted for their investment potential.
2
Reserve Shares
Determine how much money you want to invest, and reserve your shares.
3
Sign & Invest
Review the terms, sign, and fund your investment.
4
Earn Income
Earn your share of net rental income every month and participate in appreciation.
The Problem
At the start, all underwriting was done through spreadsheet calculations and manually sifting through active listings.
The startup was growing daily and this method was not a long-term viable solution.
The Solution
Cultivate Data
Track & find new active listings within target market area.
Underwriting
Perform client-specific calculations for every new property.
Visualization
Display to arrived properties that best fit their investment cirteria.
The Acquisition Assistant
Filter bar allows the investor to search and sort for investments based on location, house type, house features, and specific Arrived Homes data features.
Interactive map visualizes the locations of hundreds of home investments within the Arrived Homes housing markets.
Arrived Homes specific data calculations are utilized to inform the client of financially sound investment opportunities.
Interactive map visualizes the locations of hundreds of home investments within the Arrived Homes housing markets.
The Acquisition Assistant
Filter bar allows the investor to search and sort for investments based on location, house type, house features, and specific Arrived Homes data features.
Arrived Homes specific data calculations are utilized to inform the client of financially sound investment opportunities.
Our Tech Stack
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What's Next?
Our team has dedicated the last 6 months at the University of Washington’s School of Informatics building this fully-functioning internal tool for the startup Arrived Homes.
After Spring 2021, our client will have full proprietary access to the frontend web application, the backend database, and the logic that decides housing criteria and investment opportunity information.
Our team will be keeping this project open to the next cohort of iSchool students to continue adding features and improvements to the overall workflow. We are incredibly pleased with the experience offered by the Arrived Homes team, and we hope to share this with other members of the iSchool for years to come.
About Us
Kyle Kusche
As a front-end engineer, I believe in the importance of user-focused design and development. By majoring in Informatics at the University of Washington, I have had the opportunity to create highly accessible solutions for myriad user needs. I plan on continuing my path of developing highly intuitive solutions by working as a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Microsoft after graduation.
Austin Ulfers
I am grateful for all the the University of Washington has offered me within the Informatics program! My passion for data has allowed me to navigate problems and implement cross-discipline solutions with data driven decisions. I will be continuing my data journey next year at Moss Adams as a Business Intelligence Analyst.
Beneyam Mesele
As a project manager , I have been interested in learning about planning, executing, and monitoring project success during capstone. It also has opened an opportunity for me to purse a role in technology risk consulting. The information school has allowed me to explore job opportunities in different careers that are centered around technology. I will be exploring the risk consulting career at KPMG as a risk advisory intern for Summer 2021.
Clayton Novotney
Working as a Full-Stack Software engineer, I have been extremely grateful for the daily challenges that come with developing all aspects of software solutions and the tasks assigned to me. The University of Washington Informatics program has done a wonderful job of not only educating me in multiple coding languages and frameworks, but also giving me the ability to quickly pick up new languages and begin developing in those!