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Hey Tim, If I can, I’d like to ask a few questions here, in the name of transparency and as someone whose license is predicated on “unbiased opinions”: 1. How
by Otternonsenz 5y ago
Hey Tim,
If I can, I’d like to ask a few questions here, in the name of transparency and as someone whose license is predicated on “unbiased opinions”:
1. How does a “social Zillow” engender trust if anyone can post an opinion on a property? What stops bad actors from “review bombing” a listing on your platform?
2.What exactly are you disrupting? While I am with you that more people should have access to these systems, they are still run locally by the realtors that are putting their own listings on, and are held to certain standards of data reliability under penalty of being booted off these systems. Can the same be said for those that submit bad data to your platform?
3. Do homeowners get a say in not receiving these offers when they aren’t selling? It certainly sounds like it would be adding more spam sent to homeowners that do not need it, but I would love to be educated on why that wouldn’t be the case.
4. What value are you as a company extracting from crowdsourcing this data on the homes in your platform? Will you be taking a cut from offers made, or is this more of a way to connect interested parties?
5. I see all these buzzwords trying to connect a cohesive story to spin your product, but how is your platform providing value to end users, especially if you are touting it as a Wikipedia-style database?
- lbr 5y agoI like this concept. Finding and assessing agents stinks. I've spent a bunch of time looking at places in the Truckee, CA area. Finding the good agent was the hardest part - I wish I had been able to look at their opinions on places, and how they compared to the consensus. Care less about the social features with random people. But I suppose I do care about yelp reviews, and trip advisor reviews... so maybe my thinking is flawed.