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Re:We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 v... by TeMPOraL on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:33AM (#27780733)
No, the way it will happen when Uber, Lyft and their other rideshare competitors run out of investor money and become forced to actually turn a profit.

Still, Uber is not sticky. Drivers aren't forced to use it exclusively (fun things would happen if they tried to pull it off, something something employees). Brokerage websites most likely will demand you don't post your apartment on multiple sites. This will encourage concentration.

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Re:We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 v... by crazygringo on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:13PM (#27785234)
It doesn't matter if a brokerage website is exclusive. Healthy competition between, say, 3 main ones means people looking for apartments will check those 3.

Kind of like people looking for used textbooks will check eBay, Alibris, and Chegg.

Of course there will be concentration, that doesn't mean it's going to be a monopoly. It's just going to be the usual 2 main competing companies with a 3rd slightly-different company -- your Coke, Pepsi and RC, or your AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. It's the usual market pattern.

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