Atticus LeBlanc, founder and CEO of PadSplit, interviews Mathias Korder, co-founder and CEO of Baselane, a financial platform for real estate investors that combines banking, bookkeeping, rent collection, and tax tools and serves over 50,000 investors managing over $3B in annual transactions. Mathias shares his background and explains Baselane’s origin in building SMB banking products that weren’t tailored to real estate investors’ cash flow, property-level accounting, and Schedule E tax needs. He discusses serving diverse strategies (rooms, short-, mid-, and long-term rentals, fix-and-flip) with automated transaction tagging, reporting, expense splitting, and depreciation schedules, plus integrations for migration. Korder describes a roadmap from utility to automation to AI-driven insights as a “CFO in your pocket,” notes customers often double rent/income over two years, and highlights common investor mistakes and housing regulation bottlenecks.

00:00 Welcome and Mission

00:24 Meet Mathias and Baselane

02:11 From Morgan Stanley to BCG

05:05 The Aha Problem

06:44 Investor Pain Points

08:02 Building for Every Strategy

10:51 Loans and Bank Covenants

14:06 Automation and Reporting

15:50 Rent by the Room Finance

19:50 Depreciation and Tax Tools

21:20 Customer Outcomes and Growth

24:10 Setup and Migration

27:38 AI CFO in Your Pocket

29:51 Rapid Fire and Wrap Up

One Room at a Time podcast: https://padsplit.com/podcast

Connect with Atticus LeBlanc on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atticus-leblanc-3960466/

Connect with Mathias Korder on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathiaskorder/

References:

• Baselane: https://www.baselane.com/
• Boston Consulting Group: https://www.bcg.com/
• Morgan Stanley: https://www.morganstanley.com/
• The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son by G. Ng: https://a.co/d/0as2DUly
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