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Those real-time notifications definitely make a difference.

When I was searching for apartments in the NYCish area, I asked Zillow to ping my phone when a good listing came in.

One day, I got a ping during class and called the broker as fast as I could. "Yeah," he said, "I posted that listing 20 minutes ago but you're like the 6th caller. You almost certainly won't get it, sorry."

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The concept of selling to the highest bidder isn't popular in NYC?

Maybe it was rent controlled.

Well as the landlord, would you rather spend 2 months going over the appartment with 12 people or just take the first offer at 10% over list price?

Especially if you could go through 12 people and end up with nothing (since that gives time for people to find alternatives)

> Well as the landlord, would you rather spend 2 months going over the appartment with 12 people or just take the first offer at 10% over list price?

Neither? We schedule an open house for the next weekend, people make their offers that day, then we accept one the following day.

Shows what I know about selling houses. Definitely sounds like a better solution

I would have thought that selling vs renting are two different situations. Different enought to warrant a different approach for each of them.

Depends on the type of rental, I guess. If you're looking for long-term rentals (years), the process is probably much similar than if you're looking for seasonal or shorter-term rentals.

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