Opendoor, a startup worth emulating

Re:Opendoor, a startup worth emulating by jdross on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:46PM (#13164269)

Across thousands of homes, we have a pretty good sense of the costs here. Since we do the full home inspection before close, it's not as bad as you might think. We've learned to ask about and look for the obvious things (airplane noise, busy streets, recent crime, terrible new neighbors)

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Re:Opendoor, a startup worth emulating by flente on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:34PM (#13164457)

How can you know a seller is telling the truth RE: matters that are hard to validate in an inspection, e.g. terrible neighbors?

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Re:Opendoor, a startup worth emulating by pfarnsworth on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:10AM (#13164630)

The sellers are required to disclose any issues like this, ex. if the police were forced to be called to their neighbors, etc. Other neighbors in the area would know about "terrible neighbors" so if this came out, they could sue the sellers and more importantly the selling real estate broker.

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Re:Opendoor, a startup worth emulating by coredog64 on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:37PM (#13164471)

Is there a set of public domain resources for police calls by neighborhood and type?

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Re:Opendoor, a startup worth emulating by xherberta on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:11AM (#13164900)

Trulia seems to be using such info to create color-coded crime maps.

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Re:Opendoor, a startup worth emulating by jdross on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:46AM (#13165035)

So ironically that's a feature my cofounder/CEO at Opendoor Eric Wu launched while he was at Trulia after they acquired his last company.

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