Zillow/Redfin Meets Twitter App
Apps like redfin and Zillow allow us to see listings from the MLS. But they do not allow us to comment and ask questions regarding the listing. Maybe you saw the property and want to drop a comment, or you live down the street and want to read the chatter about the listing. Would you use a webapp that allows you to drop a comment on a listing?
If I were selling a house I wouldn’t want people commenting on it.
If you listen to the feedback you can fix and comment on it as well
Depending on the issue, the seller may not be able to fix it or it may be in their interest for buyers to simply not know. For example, if there's a death on a property in CA, the seller only needs to disclose if it happened in the last couple years. If it's not required to disclose, seller would prefer it just never comes up, but if there's comments then a neighbor could mention it
I’ve had the same idea. Mostly I think this is an opportunity for creating additional labels for automated valuation. The real problem here is that good properties go too fast and the bad ones stick around a long time. So things will be naturally biased towards 💩 houses.
Sounds like an interesting idea to me. But I feel a lot of integrity work is needed to make it actually a good website :)
plus this website most certainly will make life harder for those real estate agents who just push you to buy the house without disclosing the negative information
zillowInfinity 2.0 to be released tdb
We tried the social idea and hated it, did not serve our actual customers.
Please explain
Sounds like a feature, not enough for a whole new product
Well said!
Too much legal liability
Yea, that was my number one concern. I figured Redfin isn’t pursuing this idea for a reason
Sellers are liable to declare everything they know. So, they’d just hope they don’t learn something new about the property from the comments.
The MLS rules (where you'd need to get data from) often explicitly deny the option to post a commentable feed for the public. This also runs all over the movement in the industry to reduce people giving a home a bad reputation just because they don't like the seller (make up lies) or are relying on incorrect information. As we have seen, information that's posted online can be taken too much at face value, leading to further doubt and problems for the seller, even if the info is false.
Fair enough. Well said!
There is one property that keeps reposting but is very old listing. It is next to a gun range and I want to let everyone know. They deleted my google reviews as well
https://redf.in/VNelTH
Gotcha - are you implying that if there is an app that allows you to write comments on listings you would be a user?