What do you hate about real estate?

[Anonymous]

Thing I hated was shitty photos / not enough photos. My time is valuable and I don't want to waste it going to see a house with six photos that may not be the layout I'm looking for. I can usually figure out the layout if the full 30ish photos are published. This is partly an issue with the MLS system which has a photo limit and partly an issue with shitty realtors that don't post a lot of pictures (maybe you pay per picture or something).

Character limitation on MLS is annoying too because it forces realtors to use odd abbreviations. Who knows, maybe the alternative is worse and without a character limitation realtors would write an excessively long narrative. Maybe just double or triple the character limitations.

3D tours and layouts are nice too. Hopefully that becomes more the norm.

[Anonymous]

I hated how I couldn't email the listing agent directly to ask question.

Lack of floor plans

That everyone didn't do an open house every single Sunday. I hated having to use a realtor to open the door for me.

I hated that I never got to meet the seller, nor did I get to meet the buyer. A friendly face would have been nice and I would have like the seller to show me around during final walk through, not some shitty realtor who has no clue

[Anonymous]

The previous posters I agree with. Shitty or lacking pictures is annoying. No layout is also annoying. MLS needs a serious upgrade to their crappy system to support more pictures and more technology, and realtors need to up their game to include 3d tours and floorplans.

The real estate/realtor industry is seriously stuck in the 20th century.

No talking to the sellers/seller's agent is stupid as well, but that likely won't change. Having to call or email your realtor only to have them call/email someone else for a stupid question is retarded. Such is the way it is though. Well paid middlemen they are.

[Anonymous]

They need to post floorplans!!

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:Thanks for the perspective! I've learned some things already.

Before the cynics (eventually win and) completely derail the discussion about things in real estate that need fixing, I will let you know that I have the programming skills to affect change and I plan on putting them into use: .NET C#, Java, PHP. SQL Server and Oracle DB. And in case you think I'm a dinosaur here are some buzzwords/frameworks to show you I am current in my awareness: Backbone, Angular, Node, Ruby, Postrgres, blablabla

If you already wrote a blog about the things you hated about your experience, I'm happy to read it to gain more insight.

Lots of hates posted. Pease give us one solution

[Steve]

Anonymous wrote:

Lots of hates posted. Pease give us one solution

Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. I was out last week for training and I'm still catching up on emails this week while presenting at meetings and also trying to keep my team moving forward.

I was a little surprised about the floorplan complaints, so I'm glad I posted my question. I didn't care so much about this when I searched for homes, but it sounds like something that needs addressing. I did some googling and I think this is a solution I can integrate into the site that I'm building:

Demo (see pdfs) http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/fac_engr/flr_plans.html
Github project: http://openfloorplan.org/

This is just one thing I found from a couple minutes of searching. I know whatever I implement will need to be easy to use.

Back to meetings now!

[Anonymous]

I hate it when realtors don't list room dimensions esp kitchen sizes. Pictures can be deceptive. If the kitchen were listed as 9 by 9 I would have skipped it!

[Anonymous]

Lack of floorplans. Or take the pics so I can tell how the rooms fit.

[Anonymous]

Principal Broker in DC, MD, VA here:

Low barrier to entry.

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:I wish I had discovered DCUM sooner. It would have saved me so much time, money, and frustration in my sale and purchase.

When I sold, I hated that I got so many no-show/no-cancel appointment requests. When the people did come, I hated the feeling that there were strangers going through my house and I had no idea who they were and if there was even a chance for an offer or if they were just kicking tires.

When I bought, I hated the anxiety of not knowing what was out there and what might come. I knew exactly what I wanted and where I wanted to live, kind of like everyone here looking for a house in N. Arlington, but there was nothing I could really do short of knocking door-to-door.

I've started building a website to solve my own frustrations with real estate in hopes that people won't have to go through this same pain in the future. I don't want to miss other major problems I didn't experience, so I'm asking DCUM, "What you hate about the real estate process and what you would change?"




p.s. Thanks for posting "This page has gotten predictably annoying..." and suggesting "Be the change you want to see. Start some more interesting conversations if you don't like the those here currently...."

What do I hate about real estate?

1) developers and sellers who cut corners and go for cheap cosmetics instead of quality renovations that stand the test of time

2) realtors who are nothing but salespeople and add no value, know nothing about construction, zoning, no nothing about developments planned for the specific area (eg the condo building pipeline), are lazy with comps etc

[Anonymous]

OP is trying to develop a FSBO website, and you are playing into this by giving him all the help he needs I hope he gives all of you a cut o the money he makes.

[Anonymous]

As a seller: I hated the decluttering process. We had been in the house for nearly two decades so we had a ton of stuff. We should have streamlined the whole process gotten a dumpster for the stuff we were tossing and a small u-haul for the stuff we were donating and/or taking to a storage unit. Maybe we could have taken some of the better items to a friend's house and listed them on Craig's List. I'm sure we could have made money.

[Anonymous]

OK, I'll bite. I hate realtors. Hate them, hate them, hate them hate them hate them hate hate hate hate hate. I've bought and sold in two different parts of the country, and those people are the same, same same same. I've never met a realtor who doesn't LIE. Over and over day in day out. How do they live with themselves? The only people I've ever met I hated more were people in the movie business. They are the worst scum of the universe, and I'm including serial killers and child molesters in that group. No one is lower than Holywood movie folk, but the next layer up on the ladder leading out of Hell is realtors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is trying to develop a FSBO website, and you are playing into this by giving him all the help he needs I hope he gives all of you a cut o the money he makes.

That will be fun with .NET skillz.

[Steve]

Anonymous wrote:As a seller: I hated the decluttering process.

I hear you. I was lucky enough to have a neighbor that let me use his home to store a lot of things at his home while I staged/showed.

Anonymous wrote:OP is trying to develop a FSBO website, and you are playing into this by giving him all the help he needs I hope he gives all of you a cut o the money he makes.

I'm not trying to get rich. I just want to set thing right. Two of my guiding principles in doing this are:
1. Do not charge normal people (home owners and buyers) anything.
2. Privacy is key.

Anonymous wrote:OK, I'll bite.

Thanks for responding passionately. I've got the same kind of passion driving me to fix these kinds of things.