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by gycom 636 days ago
Hey, can you send your AI agent over to this house I'm looking at and measure out the bedrooms for me? Also, there's tile in the kitchen; was it laid correctly (tile under baseboard) or was it laid badly (burying the bottom of the baseboard)?
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Human buyer agents wouldn't do these things that you're asking
You are grossly underestimating the things I will do for a client. I've shown houses on holidays, measured and filmed everything under the sun, crawled through muddy bug-filled cellars; the difference between a good agent and an average agent is even higher than the difference in 10x programmers.
My buyer's agent did those things for me yesterday, and would do them again today if I asked. That's what a buyer's agent is for.
I, like many of the other people in this thread, had a buyer agent that did nothing. If you need someone who can do these things, looks like you've found that person!
So the value prop is that you’ve built a service that does the same job as a lazy buyer’s agent? If I’m paying someone to help me buy a house, they better be Johnny on the spot handling my requests, which include measuring a room or advising if something was installed properly or not. If they can’t do basic things like that they are useless to me.
I've bought multiple homes in my life and my buyers agents always did that type of thing and more.