Comment on Charging to tour rental properties...

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree completely. I’m not saying that it’s a good system I’m just trying to figure out how they were doing anything useful with a 50-cent charge for a tour.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s only 50 cents if you’re looking at 10 other properties managed by the same service. In practice, it’s $5 if you were only looking to tour a single place.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The problem I have with it is, if they’re trying to make money from it, the price is way too low. It’s not like a single unit is going to roll in the rent for a month in perspective visits. Letting a practically unvetted person remotely into an apartment that could steal things or hide out in a closet and rape someone… just the insurance to cover that alone would eat up a tremoundous amount of the fee. Cellular lockboxes are hundreds of dollars a piece.

      If it was about money, it would need to be $20 for a single tour on a grand scale to make fiscal sense.

      That’s why I think they’re just using it to harvest your data, that’s worth WAY more than $20 to them.

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      • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What the hell are you on about? Renters accompany prospective buyers on tours or walk throughs. No one is doing remote tours.

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      • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not only to harvest your data to sell, it’s also to know how high the initial rent can be set (before you even see a property). That’s called an unfair advantage.

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