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My first real estate experience wasn't an internship — it was managing exterior maintenance for 20+ properties in Boulder, coordinating work orders, and eventually designing and executing a full landscaping remodel that increased rents by over five percent. Before that I was doing general construction on multifamily apartments. I didn't know it at the time, but I was learning real estate from the ground up — literally. What those summers gave me was something no classroom cou

There is a version of the AI conversation in commercial real estate that happens at 30,000 feet — keynotes, think pieces, predictions about what the industry will look like in a decade. I've sat in those rooms. At MIPIM 2026 in Cannes, I watched Nobel Prize laureates and institutional fund managers debate AI's growth potential in front of 20,000 professionals from across global real estate. The most striking thing wasn't the optimism — it was the gap between the enthusiasm an