Re:Terrible real estate agent photographs
by goolz on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:32AM
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Yes, and even if you are a “top performer” doing gods work… that does not give you any right to belittle others. I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment and would pay money to see us as a collective (me included) try our hand at something like real estate. I for one know I would fail, but that’s me.
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We software engineers already have tried, and failed to the tune of $550 million. Oops.
Re:Terrible real estate agent photographs
by hospitalJail on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:49AM
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That isnt being a real estate agent, that is buying/selling the market.
Ok I’ll rephrase: We software engineers tried to buy/sell houses using algorithms, and failed to the tune of $550m. I think we collectively would have similar success (or lack thereof) as actual real estate agents.
Re:Terrible real estate agent photographs
by hospitalJail on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:42AM
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These are two different jobs.
“The algorithms are fooling themselves…” I loved that comment haha! Great link.
Re:Terrible real estate agent photographs
by robertlagrant on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:45AM
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The right thing to do is I think to digitise the process. Having a transparent way of following a bidding session and subsequent legal arrangement to completion would be extremely useful, and would surely scale pretty well.
Sometimes real estate agents fail at flipping and stick to brokering other people's transactions too.
Hard disagree. For people taking 6% of purchase price in fees, real estate agents need to be vastly better than they are. They were insufferable in Austin over the past few years, the silver lining of a serious housing crash would be watching them try to join the ranks of the productive.
It reminds me of IT recruiters in the UK a few years back: [1] sums up the situation very well and applies just as much.
[1]: https://gist.github.com/CumpsD/696599d1bd4cd472a056586967293...