[frongpik]

Everyone can't just collectively move away from the MLS database. I'm sure redfin is trying to figure it out.

I like to say that the reason you need two agents to sell a house is because you need one agent to convince the seller to sign that contract and another agent to push the buyer.

In an ideal world the seller would hire someone to show the house to potential buyers (e.g. redfin pays a fixed hourly rate to its agents who show the house) and then both seller and buyer hire real estate attorney to close the deal. 3K usd max. This nice plan falls apart when sellers and buyers can't agree where houses will be listed for sale (don't offer craiglist).

We need you know.. Tinder for houses.

[sjg007]

>Tinder for houses.

Woah. Stop. Great idea.

[Balgair]

I can only imagine the sexism, racism, and religious discrimination that would result from person-to-person transactions like these.

[systemvoltage]

I think the world is far less sexist, racist and discriminatory than what we hear on the internet. Most people are nice in the world.

[jfengel]

I take it you're a person not subject to racism, sexism, and other common forms of discrimination?

Rather than hearing about it from the internet, you might spend some time talking with those individuals who do experience it. They're often reluctant to talk about it -- especially if you're likely to respond with some variant of "Oh, that's not really so bad".

Most people are nice in this world, but there are enough non-nice people that everybody in some marginalized group gets subjected to it -- often every single day. Often it's small, but a small thing every day adds up. And being unable to talk about it for fear of being told "it's not so bad" is, itself, just one more small thing. And that means that some people who think they're nice aren't as nice as they think they are.

[marshallward]

We had no buyers agent in Australia, only a seller's agent. Buying a house in the US is unnecessarily complicated.