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Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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"Pardon the interruption. We’ve seen you here before. Let’s make things official." Fuck you, Medium. I want to read a blog post, not sign a contract or marry you.

This may reduce the annoyance: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...

Installing a browser extension so I can read someone's blog post sounds like overkill. :-)

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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Somebody should build a service for this. My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they…

I get letters like this sometimes (people looking to buy either in our area or specifically our house). This only works when you personalize your letter to the specific house, and sell yourself - i.e. not send a generic 'call me if you want to sell', because then people will assume you're a realtor. I don't think this can be made into a service - it only works when you're clearly not a business and when you can show that you've put in the effort.

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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I've used Craigslist this way, most of the public rental ads for our area were either for shitty places or overpriced. There's nice to very nice apartment complexes in our area but they are very expensive, have on-schedule yearly rent increase, and charge pet fees. So I posted an ad on Craigslist in "housing wanted" saying our approximate credit score (750+ each), employment history, what we were looking for, and our…

Many landlords would be happy to rent to Horst Christian Simco.

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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I've used Craigslist this way, most of the public rental ads for our area were either for shitty places or overpriced. There's nice to very nice apartment complexes in our area but they are very expensive, have on-schedule yearly rent increase, and charge pet fees. So I posted an ad on Craigslist in "housing wanted" saying our approximate credit score (750+ each), employment history, what we were looking for, and our…

Many landlords would be happy to rent to Horst Christian Simco.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riffraff

Apparently the common noun doesn't have a space in it but proper noun does.

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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Yup - I do believe that FB is severing their relationship with these data brokers shortly, so unsure if this will continue to be available.

Are they? This would really surprise me- Custom Audiences (FB brand name for the tool that integrates data from 3rd parties like Acxiom, etc.) is VERY powerful and makes FB a whole bunch of money.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/shutting-down-partner-categor...

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This may reduce the annoyance: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...

Installing a browser extension so I can read someone's blog post sounds like overkill. :-)

How about this?

https://outline.com/duT3Ye

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they? This would really surprise me- Custom Audiences (FB brand name for the tool that integrates data from 3rd parties like Acxiom, etc.) is VERY powerful and makes FB a whole bunch of money.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/shutting-down-partner-categor...

Ah ok, they're closing Partner Categories (not Custom Audiences). Appreciate the link

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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"Pardon the interruption. We’ve seen you here before. Let’s make things official." Fuck you, Medium. I want to read a blog post, not sign a contract or marry you.

In chrome, go to Settings > Advanced > Content Settings, Select "Cookies", then add medium.com to the Clear on exit category.[0]

Works like a charm!

[0]: Example - https://i.imgur.com/YfUKdjT.png

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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"Pardon the interruption. We’ve seen you here before. Let’s make things official." Fuck you, Medium. I want to read a blog post, not sign a contract or marry you.

Hmm nice argument for GDPR. They are tracking my visits without my permission or even notifying me...

Re: Apartment baiting with Facebook Ads

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Somebody should build a service for this. My wife and I recently moved and, while we ended up somewhere we like, there was one particular street right next to our old house that we always wished we would be able to get a home on. When we talked to other neighbors that were thinking about moving, we found out that we were far from the only ones eyeing that street. Unfortunately, people there rarely sold and, when they…

> We thought about sending letters to see if somebody wanted to sell to us without going the realtor route.

My parent sold a place that they had after a letter was put in their letter box, and we were on the brink of doing this when we were looking for a place. Before we did I walked into work and said “anyone know of a place for sale in xxx that would be interested in a private sale?” Someone did, and we bought it. No real estate agents involved.

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