We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
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Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#2Similar to www.nobroker.in (India) ?
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#3This was really well written, such a good read.
It somehow made the phrase "Everything that can be automated is automated." less... I don't know... scary I guess. I can't put my finger on it, but giving all this up to some algorithms seems wrong/worrisome for some reason, but seeing exactly how it was done made it less so.
Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#4Great writeup.
Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#5Some of this software is pretty terrible. I don't remember what for but the new CRM software at my apartment required that I fill some form that I couldn't find so I went down stairs to the office and the person working for the land lord didn't know either.
We ended up figuring it out together.
Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#6Would love something like this to kill (or at least severely maim) the broker industry in NYC. 0 value added at the cost of 10-15% of yearly rent.
Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#7Glad they didn't go with virtual viewings - scam players here (UK) do that and just run away with the deposit.
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#8Would love something like this to kill (or at least severely maim) the broker industry in NYC. 0 value added at the cost of 10-15% of yearly rent.
Yeah it's pretty atrocious. They're so useless. It's such a feel-bad experience working with them, knowing they're not helping at all, and knowing you have to pay them thousands of dollars if you want the apartment - for nothing.
Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#9Would love something like this to kill (or at least severely maim) the broker industry in NYC. 0 value added at the cost of 10-15% of yearly rent.
If I’m not mistaken, didn’t NYC enact a law last year that bans landlords from charging tenants the broker fee?
Re: We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
#10Would love something like this to kill (or at least severely maim) the broker industry in NYC. 0 value added at the cost of 10-15% of yearly rent.
0 value added for the tenant, but brokers typically serve the landlord.