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Opendoor is already doing agentless open houses with access codes (smart locks) and cameras throughout the house where people can visit whenever they want witho
by flylib 10y ago
Opendoor is already doing agentless open houses with access codes (smart locks) and cameras throughout the house where people can visit whenever they want without calling ahead, not that difficult
- rplst8 10y agoYeah someone needs to tell the real estate people their jobs aren't safe from the robot apocalypse either.
- lisper 10y agoThat seems to me to be fraught with all manner of peril. Suppose a burglar poses as a buyer under an assumed identity, and then robs the house while wearing a mask. What is the recourse?
- icebraining 10y agoApparently Opendoor literally buys (and fixes up) the house and then re-sells it, rather than simply arranging the transaction, so they're selling an empty house.
- lisper 10y agoAh, I see. That actually makes a lot of sense. But what if someone steals the appliances? That is actually a problem for new construction.
- disillusioned 10y agoBuyers have to go through an identity verification stage to gain access to the homes, including, I believe, the taking of a credit card. Not impossible to spoof, but far more frustrating than merely downloading an app, clicking "I agree" and getting the unlock code to burgle.
- doingmyting 10y agoI'm not sure I understand what's stopping the burglar today? 50 year old Aunt May with the bad hip who has been selling houses for 25 years? I'd also expect the person to be checked out ahead of time similar to Airbnb or other services.
- grogenaut 10y agoThe house unlocks to a tracked verified identity from a smart phone, Not to random people in masks, would be my guess. Also empty houses are hard to steal only vandalize
- lisper 10y agoI guess I'm asking how the identity is verified. It's not hard to spoof an identity on a smart phone. And empty houses are full of copper wire and electrical appliances (and in this case, apparently, security cameras) which are commonly stolen from construction sites (and cost a lot more than a smart phone nowadays).
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