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Wow, rubyn00bie, I'd love to talk with you. I wonder who you were with and how long ago. We anticipate that will be an issue for awhile, but we have a jar full

Wow, rubyn00bie, I'd love to talk with you. I wonder who you were with and how long ago. We anticipate that will be an issue for awhile, but we have a jar full of ideas how we will overcome that problem. Kind of the coke recipe. Thanks for your feed back and we will take all the luck we can get. Richard

6510 3y ago
My standard formula (tempted to call it a standard joke) is to build an aggregator that lists the competitors offers, in your case as many properties from as many agencies as possible. Some you have to pay for their data, some you can do for free, some want to pay for better listings. On a different note, without an agency one can leverage the lack of artificial urgency. ATM, with few listings, the longer listings last the better it is for you.
- rubyn00bie 3y ago
  It's much easier and cheaper (in terms of time/money spent) just to use https://www.listhub.com/home.html https://www.listhub.com/home.html to aggregate the data. Many MLS are run on old beige boxes living in closets. I sort of disagree with the analysis about having things sit longer. One of the issues is that if it sits too long, because markets are hot, sellers will just go with an agent and never use your platform again. Additionally, many buyers will assume that the data is stale because its old. It's really a difficult situation with so many non-obvious layers of complexity in how it works.
rubyn00bie 3y ago
I'd be happy to setup a call sometime, do you have an email address? I've seen a whole helluva lot of that space (though it has been 5-6 years now since I was there). The company was called Househappy, before I left the company pivoted into being a home ownership platform instead a buy/sell platform. I'm still quite sure that we're started the trend, on housing websites, of a photo driven approach :)

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Wow, rubyn00bie, I'd love to talk with you. I wonder who you were with and how long ago. We anticipate that will be an issue for awhile, but we have a jar full

by montgomster 3y ago

6510 3y ago
My standard formula (tempted to call it a standard joke) is to build an aggregator that lists the competitors offers, in your case as many properties from as many agencies as possible. Some you have to pay for their data, some you can do for free, some want to pay for better listings. On a different note, without an agency one can leverage the lack of artificial urgency. ATM, with few listings, the longer listings last the better it is for you.
- rubyn00bie 3y ago
  It's much easier and cheaper (in terms of time/money spent) just to use https://www.listhub.com/home.html https://www.listhub.com/home.html to aggregate the data. Many MLS are run on old beige boxes living in closets. I sort of disagree with the analysis about having things sit longer. One of the issues is that if it sits too long, because markets are hot, sellers will just go with an agent and never use your platform again. Additionally, many buyers will assume that the data is stale because its old. It's really a difficult situation with so many non-obvious layers of complexity in how it works.
rubyn00bie 3y ago
I'd be happy to setup a call sometime, do you have an email address? I've seen a whole helluva lot of that space (though it has been 5-6 years now since I was there). The company was called Househappy, before I left the company pivoted into being a home ownership platform instead a buy/sell platform. I'm still quite sure that we're started the trend, on housing websites, of a photo driven approach :)