We have another disrupter who is providing a service you didn’t know you needed until now.
Traditionally, a buyer’s agent accompanies their clients to show them the homes for sale, and to give expert advice about each house while on site. But other real estate companies – who don’t appreciate that valuable service – have dumbed it down by just paying door-openers that allow buyers into the house, but leave them on their own to figure out the rest.
A new company has taken it one step further, and is providing an Uber-like service where random agents can get paid for opening doors for other agents.
The company charges $39, and pays $24 of it to the door-opening agent – who agrees to not offer advice to the buyers, and to direct them back to the agent who paid the $39 showing fee.
Will it happen some day that the buyers will be charged a fee to see a house?
Perhaps smartphone apps have plumbed the depths? Nah….something even more app-stupid is around the next corner.
Because I want to be represented by an agent who is too busy to show me a property that might net them $30k.
CB Mark: C’mon man…who hasn’t wanted a smart phone app that you can voice activate from your car telling your toaster that you will soon be home and that once you get there you still have to walk over and put bread in it but that the setting for your toast will be perfecto and pre-defined thus saving you time and effort affording you the ability to explore painting and other hidden artistic abilities, and btw…toasted just the way you like it, and that could be way different from the other family members who have their own custom settings that they monitor from anywhere in the world? Well huh?
Plus an app that puts the avocado on it…..
Jim: Well of course the avocado, that goes without saying.
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
“Brought peace.”
“Oh. Peace? Shut up!”