Lucas Dahl

I'm going to start posting on here so I'll introduce myself. I've been an entrepreneur since I could remember. Over time I became obsessed with two things, commercial real estate and technology. I started investing in real estate at 18 and built my own AI underwriting system in 2025 to analyze more deals than I could on my own. Shortly after that I realized how poorly the real estate industry was run, and that the system I built for myself could be built for the entire industry. A month later I started Rets AI. Raised my first round of funding while still in college and then dropped out. After that, I closed a $15.5M valuation cap raise, and am now building the AI-native operating system for commercial real estate investment firms. Excited to post the journey here on X.

@resetbasis You don’t keep a supply of JD on hand? That sounds sub optimal

@lucashd Vitamin C, omegas, 3 cool ranch Doritos, alpha lipoic acids, moderate amount of cocaine and either Jack Daniel’s or jim beam depending on availability

100k followers. No more real estate content. From now on, this account is focused on parenting advice, peptide stacks, courses, and vague posts about hustling.

Fuel for the mind and body

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. Colossians 3:23-24

Daily meal: dozen eggs, steak, and some rice

Probably have watched this 4 or 5 times now, great episode youtube.com/watch?v=qjPH9n…

“I took possession of my own mind and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need.” - Andrew Carnegie

@damianplayer Fire idea

@dan_generalov 1. Laws of Human Nature 2. The Count of Monte Cristo 3. The War of Art 4. Reality Transurfing 5. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

@lucashd Top 5 list ?

Reading is a lost art, most people that I talk to in my age range read 0 books a year. Some read 1-2. I think the most valuable learning I've ever received was buried inside of books. In high school I'd read 6 hours a day. Reading in class, reading during lunch, and removing my 7th period class to read more. I wasted hundreds of hours on valueless pages to get to the 1-5 pages that changed my life. This is a reminder for myself and anyone else who has experienced this before to read more often.

"The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.” - George Washington, July 2, 1776

@robbiehendricks Peak

My boys chasing the first fireflies of summer tonight. Is this not worth fighting for? Is this not worth dying for?

I think about real estate technology basically 24 hours a day This is an obsession that has stuck around since I first learned about it I don’t think it will end anytime soon either

@RandallHouseRE Let’s go

If you want a property, text the owner. 70-year-old original developer. Happened to live in NYC. Dec 2025: Not for sale. No plans to sell. May 2026: Closed. No bidding war. 7.2% cap rate on a 2007 build. Keep offering.

Office looks a little different today

In CRE, there is a meaningful difference between using AI to solve a compute-bound problem versus a judgment-bound one. Running 5 instances of Claude on the same problem yields diminishing returns because the instances share weights and a training distribution, so their outputs are highly correlated. Putting 5 humans on one problem can be more fruitful because each brings an independent prior shaped by different experience. The limiting factor at your firm should never be manpower it should be judgement.

Beautiful

Rets will have one of these

Real estate tech is creating a generation of analysts who can run models with AI but can't smell a bad assumption themselves. The tedious manual work was never wasteful and it will only prove to be more essential. These are the schooling fees you paid in exchange for a sixth sense. The newer generation needs this too.

I love this city