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by fallingsquirrel 636 days ago
> 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?

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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.