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An acquaintance of mine is an FBI investigator and moonlights as a higher-grade Realtor. He would use the same memory card and high end camera both during "stakeouts" for surveillance photos as well as listing photos for the homes he was selling. One day he uploaded the entire contents of the memory card to the MLS on one of his public listings, surveillance photos and all. I'm pretty sure everything was up for a few…
About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us. What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors. Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it make…
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It's also a job which accomodates way more scum type people than you'd see in typical office jobs. As you note the incentives are very different, the pressure as well, and the recipes for success can involve screwing people over a lot of money.
The profession doesn't seem to have much interest in dealing with moral hazards.
An acquaintance of mine is an FBI investigator and moonlights as a higher-grade Realtor. He would use the same memory card and high end camera both during "stakeouts" for surveillance photos as well as listing photos for the homes he was selling. One day he uploaded the entire contents of the memory card to the MLS on one of his public listings, surveillance photos and all. I'm pretty sure everything was up for a few…
I really, really, really tried my best, but the only appropriate i could think of was "Fucking hell!".
Are you sure they're not a realtor masquerading as a....well, at this point, who gives a shit?
I really don't understand 1) how people take such bad/blurry/small photos or 2) why they choose to use them in listings.
About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us. What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors. Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it make…
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Yes, and even if you are a “top performer” doing gods work… that does not give you any right to belittle others. I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment and would pay money to see us as a collective (me included) try our hand at something like real estate. I for one know I would fail, but that’s me.
We software engineers already have tried, and failed to the tune of $550 million. Oops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29087479
About 10 years ago, me and my wife took LSD on a vacation, and the sheer uselessness of a real estate agent appeared to us. What does a real estate agent do? They unlock doors. Who are real estate agents? We can all think of a few real estate agents, none of them are top performers. They are usually on their ~4th career before the age of 30. They are the type of person to wear a suit in public to pretend that it make…
Not exactly real estate agents for buying/selling but related: I remember reading about the fact that, at the time, most apartments in NYC were "broker only" (aka you can only see and then rent an apartment if you are using a licensed real estate broker). The more I thought about this, I started to see the benefits for both sides: - for the landlord: the broker acts as a filter for people who are serious vs "looky lo…
The job literally could not exist anywhere else because no one would pay it. But they aren't making any more land in Manhattan and they aren't building subway lines quick enough so landlords get to pass that expense off to tenants
…. but for agent portraits.
What I am used to in the area I currently live in, is much, much worse - and actual incompetence on the side of the agent. And what's worse, you see it all the time! Here are a few highlights:
- A total of five pictures for the property, all of which are of the outside, none of the rooms.
- Blurry pictures as if someone first had to learn not to move the camera in the middle of taking a shot.
- Severely tilted pictures, as if taken on a boat.
- Three pictures of some door (the same door each time, mind you)
- ...
You might think this is a joke, and I wish it was. Unfortunately, though, this kind of thing is commonly found on real estate websites where I live. I don't know how anyone can ever get traction - I guess it must be a seller's market.
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We software engineers already have tried, and failed to the tune of $550 million. Oops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29087479
That isnt being a real estate agent, that is buying/selling the market.