Shawn Davis

20A – Growing Your Social Capital

1.      Domain expert in my industry.

The person I chose to network with for the section was Susan from The Ridge. I was able to contact her by email provided by the ridge for the person to contact for the market and selling for the property of selling. The ridge is something that is provided for off campus students in search for housing. By reaching out to Susan and having had make contact with her she now knows that I’m also interested into the same business and market and that I have the unique age and other things as the other students that are trying to find public housing.

2.      Expert in my market.

I networked with the contact in athletics who does researches and documents like housing opportunities for housing that is available for college students in the area. We are similar in areas because she makes sure that things are organized for move in dates and she also go over leases with the students that are trying to move in to off campus housing by connecting with her we both know that people are not wanting live alone they want to live with two to three roommates that are there friends from the same or another sport.

3.      Important supplier to my industry.

Sam Morre who works for Parrish McCall. I reached out to him through email listed on their website. They are a contractor company that supplies majority of construction for college housing in the area. There was a need for me to talk to them to predict the admission the insights of how many college students are going to be coming to UF and other students that are going to need college housing.

Reflection

            The people I talked to are people who worked with getting students situated with college housing or either build the housing that college students are moving to. Susan is a property manager, Shawnee is someone that works with athletics that research documents for off campus housing she also helps with on campus housing, and Sam is a constructor. I found and interacted with them because they are people that I’m aware of but not familiar with. By getting all these people included into my network it will allow me to better understand what the need is in this business.