“Dogs have brains but not minds. Never wise, always diligent.”Here are three facts about intelligence: Your dog is not intelligent, nor is any entity lacking a properly-functioning thinking brain. “Artificial Intelligence” is quite a bit less intelligent than your dog – and it is never capable of even the most basic forms of awareness, understood biologically. […]
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“If you won’t pick up after your own dog – what does that make you?”As previously dreaded, Zillow CEO Rich Barton is electing to leave devastation behind him, as he demonstrates to everyone’s dismay that he is by far the world’s worst real estate “investor.” “The Incumbent” said everything it takes to get an “investor” ejected […]
“Imagine a puppy who takes three years to house train…”Well. It turns The Incumbent has a calculator on his phone. Even billionaires can identify a stupid business – eventually. On July 19th, 2019, I took OpenDoor’s business praxis apart in public, demonstrating all their foolish marketing errors. Hundreds of OpenDoor staffers read that article. I think […]
“If you tell me you’re a bird dog, it doesn’t mean you can fly.”Here’s an interesting question: Given that we know that the iBuyers gouge buyer’s agents, could it be that they also gouge all their other vendors? This could explain why Zillow has discovered that it is unfit for the house-flipping business: It can’t get […]
“Nobody counts the squirrels you didn’t tree.”We market our rental properties with the Realty.bots, not the MLS. I want to meet everyone, and I don’t want to pay a weak agent to come between me and the prospects. But what that means is that I get inundated with inquiries: The Realty.bots make it easy for […]
“Financing dogs? That’s so last century. The trickier way? The purebred puppy of your choice for FREE – by signing this 15-year dogfood contract.”I wrote the other day about Zillow’s losses on its iBuyer “investments” – incomprehensible losses considering that this is one of the few times when it is possible to make money on non-producing […]
“Praise a dog for soiling your house and watch what happens…”Zillow’s first-quarter results are out, and the message is plainly obvious: Milk the idiots, but don’t be the idiot. They won’t learn. The only successful “disruption” in proptech, so far at least, belongs to Zillow: They replaced supermarket real estate magazines with the Zestimate™. The difference […]
Who thinks this works as a landing page? [click the image to see it full size] Is that a family or a human trafficking incident? A witness protection move-in? Not much stuff, but not much house to move into. Gotta love that curb appeal, though: No one will suspect either the seller or the buyers […]
“To understand ‘informed discretion,’ consider all the things your dog has devoured that he shouldn’t have.”If you sell your home to an iBuyer, you will net around 94% of the offered price, after the accumulated impacts of the fine print you did not read are deducted. If you list your home for sale with me or […]
That sounds right to me. 😉 The waste is not their salaries but the financial havoc they wreak as the very-most-backseat of drivers. That is to say, iBuyers suck at real estate investment, and their hubris prevents any sort of improvement. “Are YOU notorious? Have you ever BEEN notorious? Well, I have… Not necessarily wise […]
It has been 8 years since I have regularly blogged here. During that time I have learned a lot, broadened what I do, and instead of working as an SEO constultant, I am working full time as the Director of Online Marketing with The Real Estate Group in Chesapeake VA. I still live in Southern […]
Housing Wire: A Zillow spokesperson told HousingWire that these people are already employed with Zillow, and will be getting real estate licenses. Zillow said it will not be recruiting for these positions. “The normal career path is real estate agent to barista, but Zillow’s changing all that!”It’s a boiler-room job – in the same article, George […]
Do you want to hear my most perfect real estate marketing image? I’ve never seen this anywhere, except in my mind’s eye. It goes like this: A little girl and her golden retriever are racing out the front door of their home. Why? Because “Daddy’s home!” – that’s why. That’s it: Kid, dog, dad, with […]
And why on earth do they continue to do business with you?
Is the business model of all the Realty.bots daft? It is Citron’s primary thesis that Zillow is a Web 1.0 business presenting itself as a Web 2.0 investment. The entire premise of Web 2.0 is that smart managing and publication of information interactively to users can scale tremendously, while costs remain fixed. But unlike Netflix, […]