[IAmGraydon]

>I don’t know any other real estate people who know anything about code

CRE professional here (about a decade in the industry) who was a coder first. I think there's plenty that can be disrupted in real estate, and specially commercial real estate, where there are a lot of old problems that are ripe for solutions. It's like you said though - those who experience the problems and actually know how to write software to solve them are rare. We are in a good position for opportunity.

I think that brokers can (and should) be replaced by something more efficient, but the real problem for disrupters is regulation, IMO. A program/app/SAAS cannot hold a real estate license, and therefore cannot do things like quote rates, terms, or manage transactions. As of right now, it's illegal in most states.

As for the website that OP created, I think it was a nice attempt, but it seems very half-baked and the case for its value is not clear at all. There's some pretty design and not a lot of substance there.

[fallingsquirrel]

> A program/app/SAAS cannot hold a real estate license, and therefore cannot do things like quote rates, terms, or manage transactions. As of right now, it's illegal in most states.

I wonder if the app could use the same "legal workaround" that political SMS spammers use. The app queues the messages, but an intern mashes the spacebar 100 times to spam 100 different people, therefore a human sent the message, therefore the spam is legal.

Now hire someone with a real estate license to mash the spacebar for your realtor app. Does it suddenly become legal?

[forgetfreeman]

Given the frequency with which large real estate outfits have deep ties to local and state legislative bodies I'd love to see someone who doesn't fully understand what they're fucking with stick a fork in that outlet just to see what happens to them.