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I'm not saying they are DOING anything or a "real" team. It could just be a queue that creates a delay. The objective is to increase the friction to the maximum

I'm not saying they are DOING anything or a "real" team. It could just be a queue that creates a delay. The objective is to increase the friction to the maximum degree when deviating from the algorithmic pricing. Still, the impression given to the property's management team is that a person (possibly a customer service grunt) is doing some kind of "final review," manually clicking a box or even just making sure they don't drop below 80% acceptance.

vel0city 4y ago
> Still, the impression given to the property's management team is that a person (possibly a customer service grunt) is doing some kind of "final review," manually clicking a box or even just making sure they don't drop below 80% acceptance. Or making sure their leasing agents aren't issuing leases that will lose the company money. If the building's budgets are based around leasing apartments at at least $2/sqft, and leasing agents start issuing leases at $1.50/sqft without anyone else knowing or approving, there's going to be a problem. Those leasing agents aren't always privy (or even care to know) about the budgets of the building. If a waiter starts selling the $5 hamburgers for $1, do you think the business is going to do well? Should the waiter have the ability to arbitrarily decide menu prices?
- solarmist 4y ago
  That isn't at all the same. You could handle that by ensuring the leasing agent's manager sees all the leases going through. This is a cartel going around making sure that all the businesses are playing ball, so they can set prices for everyone how they see fit.
  - vel0city 4y ago
    Yeah and you could have the manager at the restaurant inspect everyone's checks or you can just standardize price strategies for the location and auto-approve leases which meet established criteria.

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I'm not saying they are DOING anything or a "real" team. It could just be a queue that creates a delay. The objective is to increase the friction to the maximum

by solarmist 4y ago

vel0city 4y ago
> Still, the impression given to the property's management team is that a person (possibly a customer service grunt) is doing some kind of "final review," manually clicking a box or even just making sure they don't drop below 80% acceptance. Or making sure their leasing agents aren't issuing leases that will lose the company money. If the building's budgets are based around leasing apartments at at least $2/sqft, and leasing agents start issuing leases at $1.50/sqft without anyone else knowing or approving, there's going to be a problem. Those leasing agents aren't always privy (or even care to know) about the budgets of the building. If a waiter starts selling the $5 hamburgers for $1, do you think the business is going to do well? Should the waiter have the ability to arbitrarily decide menu prices?
- solarmist 4y ago
  That isn't at all the same. You could handle that by ensuring the leasing agent's manager sees all the leases going through. This is a cartel going around making sure that all the businesses are playing ball, so they can set prices for everyone how they see fit.
  - vel0city 4y ago
    Yeah and you could have the manager at the restaurant inspect everyone's checks or you can just standardize price strategies for the location and auto-approve leases which meet established criteria.