I came across this tweet this afternoon while I was sitting down to write about the intersection of real estate & technology and it had me thinking; why is the apartment rental process so archaic compared to Airbnb? The traditional leasing process has (at the minimum) 2 parties: the renter and the Landlord. The renter can be anyone from a 19-year-old college student in Columbus, OH to a 55-year-old empty-nesting couple who moved from the suburbs to downtown to enjoy all of the amenities that a city…