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Re:Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future by ethbr0 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:51AM (#29140431)
> large spread between their buying price and their selling price

This is the market I was amazed Zillow didn't get into: the "WE BUY UR HOUSE 4 CASH" market.

I'm guessing the volume is too low (few people sell their house for stupid low offers) and advertising costs are too high (those people probably aren't obsessively checking Zillow for their home's value every day).

But still, it seems like easy money, that someone far less knowledgeable and talented than them is currently scooping up, that would better insulate them against market turns.

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Re:Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:17PM (#29141335)
> the market I was amazed Zillow didn't get into: the "WE BUY UR HOUSE 4 CASH" market

They could have bootstrapped by offering a product to those cash4home operations.

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