I've never lived in a large metro, so I'm unsure how prevalent brokers are (or even how they operate). Do you have to deal with rental brokers in all large cities? Even the Midwest/south like Dallas, Indy, Atlanta, KC, Phoenix, etc?
YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate
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Re: YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate
#12I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing that they have listings but not actually giving out much information on individual places. Services like this one and Rentjuice are services for brokers to find landlords and property managers who want to rent their apartments. (unless I misu…
Thanks for the comment. Your point is certainly well taken and not alone. Unfortunately, one of the things we do is to help brokers and agents "spam", but it's a supply / demand thing. Landlords are well aware of Craigslist's existence, and if they wanted to be on there themselves, they would, right? We ultimately are trying to tackle this issue and make it better for the renters and buyers. Yet, going against the ma…
Thanks for responding, I certainly see where you're coming from, as you've said, you can't change an entire industry over night, but that won't stop people like me from wishing that you could.
I guess I'm impatient for a company like yours to succeed and visibly improve things for renters & buyers. I wish you the best of luck going forward.
Re: YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate
#13I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing that they have listings but not actually giving out much information on individual places. Services like this one and Rentjuice are services for brokers to find landlords and property managers who want to rent their apartments. (unless I misu…
Theoretically the broker also has the incentive not to waste time with you, and to make you happy so that you give referrals. Since rental turnover is a lot higher, this would be even stronger an incentive than for home sales.
Re: YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate
#14I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing that they have listings but not actually giving out much information on individual places. Services like this one and Rentjuice are services for brokers to find landlords and property managers who want to rent their apartments. (unless I misu…
A good alternative is PadMapper.com. Somehow, they are able to cut out a ton of crap from the over postings. Worth a shot if you are looking for an apartment.
Re: YouGotListings (YC W11) looks to provide the best tools for real estate
#15I found my current apartment on Craigslist through an ad my landlord put up. I had to spend hours churning through what is essentially spam: brokers listing apartment or listing that they have listings but not actually giving out much information on individual places. Services like this one and Rentjuice are services for brokers to find landlords and property managers who want to rent their apartments. (unless I misu…
A good alternative is PadMapper.com. Somehow, they are able to cut out a ton of crap from the over postings. Worth a shot if you are looking for an apartment.
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#18Being a Real Estate agent in Texas I'll be the first to say most "solutions" for agents suck. We've completely destroyed our reputation as agents (if there was much of one anyway) on Craigslist by flooding the different areas. Many agents lie or use old listings or data to do bait and switch type ads.
I haven't used this solution, but I hope it helps to thin out some of the crap that gets posted to craigslist. Something that'd be awesome is to have the software ping the IDX to make sure the property being posted is still available. If it's not then maybe have an extra dialog to be SURE the person wants to post the property.
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#19I come from Australia, have lived in the UK, Germany and Switzerland and now live in the US. What I find really interesting is just how badly real estate works online in the US. To quote Bart Simpson, it achieves what was previously thought physically impossible: it sucks and blows at the same time. In Australia there are basically two online sites for both rentals and sales: realestate.com.au and domain.com. They ha…
Very thoughtful response. I really appreciate your feedback. We have our reasons for that price, and might very likely change it in the future. Startups have to change or die.
As with the US real estate suck, that I 100% agree. There are many many reasons why that is the case, and many startups try to solve this problem with no one succeeding.
We are looking to be the one that eventually solves this hard problem, but as I said in the other post, it's an uphill battle.
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#20I cofounded a startup named RentRunner, in Boston, and spent a year trying to get a similar sounding system to be used by real estate brokers. We had an agent on our team, and he was our sales person. We could not find a model that would get us sales without expensive direct sales. And although direct sales seemed to work, the possible price points wouldn't support it. My experience was that real estate brokerages ha…
Thank your for the feedback. I agree with you on your points. I'll ping you separately for a more in-depth discussion.