[dyim]

We got a great deal on our current apartment due to a combination of 1. user error & 2. one of these algorithms.

Our place was originally listed at $7,550 [1], but the leasing co used pictures from a shittier unit within the same building!

Naturally nobody was interested, so the pricing system automatically ratcheted the price down to $6,050, at which point we checked out the apartment & noticed the discrepancy between pictures and reality.

As people figure out the balance between "AI" and "common sense," I bet there's going to be tons of mispriced crap out there in market.

[1] (Numbers changed by ~5% so as to not doxx our apt #)

[TMWNN]

>We got a great deal on our current apartment due to a combination of 1. user error & 2. one of these algorithms.

I periodically look at available units at a complex I considered the last time I moved. A few months ago I saw a unit twice the size of my apartment for only slightly more (and less than other, smaller units in the complex), presumably because of a RealPage pricing error.

Moral of the story: When you're thinking of moving, start checking complexes you're interested in every day.