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by FireBeyond 746 days ago
They are actively facilitating dozens of companies, who are meant to be competitors, into using the same process for deriving prices to ensure that all these companies have increased profits at the expense of the consumer, i.e. removing competition due to price fixing.

It'd be one thing (still not good, but less problematic) if it was merely informational. But you also have RP requiring 90-95% compliance with their prices (including mystery shopping), requiring landlords to get RP's "approval" to go against the recommendation ("you mess with everyone when you don't", which if you're actually competing in a free market, why would you care?), and even up to and including advising their customer's execs of "problematic" property managers (those who are not complying).