The user expresses frustration with the current real estate tech stack, which involves multiple platforms (CoStar, Yardi, CRM, market data, analytics tools) that provide conflicting data and don't communicate with each other. This forces manual data copying and pivot table creation. The request is for better integration and automation between these systems to ensure data consistency and streamline workflows.
Started in commercial real estate years ago when our tech stack was excel and a rolodex. Now I've got subscriptions to costar, yardi, some crm, a market data platform, and multiple analytics tools that all show me slightly different numbers for the same property (which makes my ocd wanna cry). And what's the best part? Well none of these things are really connected to be able to talk to each other, so I'm still spending my mondays copying data from one system into another trying to figure out which occupancy number is the correct one and building pivot tables like it's the past. My younger analyst keeps asking why we don't automate this stuff and honestly I don't have a good answer anymore.