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Re:I need to find an apartment by kortilla on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:27PM (#30970620)
That solution is bad. You have no idea what you’re missing out on by using an agent. You might think you had a good agent, but unless you’re already really familiar with the market, you could have missed out on significantly better matches and you wouldn’t even know.

You know how we know this is a solvable problem? Listings for places to buy don’t have nearly as many problems.

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Re:I need to find an apartment by timr on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:33PM (#30970671)
Like I said, there are bad agents. There are also bad plumbers. There are bad doctors. There are bad housekeepers. This is not a problem unique to real estate, and tools exist to help you find reliable service professionals.

> You know how we know this is a solvable problem? Listings for places to buy don’t have nearly as many problems.

Just as OP said, there are tons of sites out there that claim to "solve" this, but don't. So no, I don't know that this is a computer-solvable problem.

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