• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    It’s only 50 cents if you’re looking at 10 other properties managed by the same service. In practice, it’s $5 if you were only looking to tour a single place.

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      17 days ago

      The problem I have with it is, if they’re trying to make money from it, the price is way too low. It’s not like a single unit is going to roll in the rent for a month in perspective visits. Letting a practically unvetted person remotely into an apartment that could steal things or hide out in a closet and rape someone… just the insurance to cover that alone would eat up a tremoundous amount of the fee. Cellular lockboxes are hundreds of dollars a piece.

      If it was about money, it would need to be $20 for a single tour on a grand scale to make fiscal sense.

      That’s why I think they’re just using it to harvest your data, that’s worth WAY more than $20 to them.

      • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        17 days ago

        It’s not only to harvest your data to sell, it’s also to know how high the initial rent can be set (before you even see a property). That’s called an unfair advantage.