Re:“Stop Zillow”
by greghague on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:13PM
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You're out of line criticizing Realtors. Don't presume until you stand in their shoes. Most work their butt off 7 days a week and care deeply about their clients. You want to criticize someone, pick me. I paid 100% for the StopZillow website and movement because Zillow used Realtor listings to build a brand and now stabs those Realtors in the back. Greg Hague, The Real Estate Maverick
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Re:“Stop Zillow”
by rand0mbits on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:48PM
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Most people care deeply about their family members and close friends. Caring about doing a good job is normal, but caring deeply about your clients is weird... Either way, what kind of research have you done to know about most realtors?
Re:“Stop Zillow”
by slantaclaus on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:18AM
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Working 7 days a week just means you're doing something wrong. It's also bad for your health, your social life, and frankly your productivity. Please stop saying this
> Zillow used Realtor listings to build a brand
Is this the MLS? Or is Zillow scraping realtor sites?
There is no single MLS, so basically they have to get data from the various services located in any given market.
They typically paid for that access though I do know they were cut out of the Milwaukee one a while back.
I think they were scraping data at one point (but I could be entirely off-base there) At the end of the day, they are combing through public records, past sales from MLS and in many cases retyped/copied and pasted by the real estate agent.