{"id":16541,"date":"2017-09-30T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16541"},"modified":"2017-09-30T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:04:51","slug":"whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-bot-real-estate-ai-is-a-cargo-cult-of-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16541\/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-bot-real-estate-ai-is-a-cargo-cult-of-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s afraid of the big, bad bot? Real estate \u201cAI\u201d is a cargo cult \u2013 of trivia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BotBait.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BotBait.png 444w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BotBait-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll talk more about this as we go forward: I am listing almost never, but I am listing as close to perfectly as I can. I have made myself into a killer real estate listing agent by way of behavior modeling: Double-thinking appraisers and experienced agents to get to the unassailable price, then selling to absolutely everyone in the process. That includes writing rebuttal language in private MLS fields for agents to deploy on their buyers \u2013 selling by attenuation.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t end. Under Contract is a dance of magnets, a war of attrition among mutual repulsions. This is where closing skills really matter \u2013 and that&#8217;s why I am selling my client&#8217;s interests all the time, to everyone, all the way to the close.<\/p>\n<p>My point? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-09-29\/real-estate-company-replacing-agents-robots\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Come and get me, robot.<\/a> I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass where the nearest Starbucks is, but I know how to get to the closing table. You don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll talk more about this as we go forward: I am listing almost never, but I am listing as close to perfectly as I can. I have made myself into a killer real estate listing agent by way of behavior modeling: Double-thinking appraisers and experienced agents to get to the unassailable price, then selling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-fun-with-vendorsluts","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2822,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2822\/commission\/","url_meta":{"origin":16541,"position":0},"title":"Commission","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"March 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There were a number of interesting articles last week regarding the value of a real estate agent.\u00a0 Essentially asking the agent to justify their commission.\u00a0 I know it got heated up over on Active Rain and there was some discussion on AgentGenius as well.\u00a0 Here at\u00a0BHB\u00a0we enjoyed\u00a0two very good posts.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17242,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17242\/a-sunday-sermon-for-the-phoenix-ibuyers-do-not-bind-the-mouths-of-the-buyers-agents\/","url_meta":{"origin":16541,"position":1},"title":"A Sunday sermon for the Phoenix iBuyers: \u201cDo not bind the mouths of the Buyer\u2019s\u00a0Agents.\u201d","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't list a lot, right now, but I have been working for years to list perfectly: Highest\/safest\/soonest offer in minimal Days on Market. I haven't done my numbers in a while, but I've been under seven days, on average, for a long time, typically selling at or above Fair-Market\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Group Therapy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/muhammad-umair-TxQSdnp6D_k-unsplash-480x320.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2078,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2078\/i-have-some-good-news-and-i-have-some-bad-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":16541,"position":2},"title":"I Have Some Good News &#8211; And I Have Some Bad News","author":"Doug Quance","date":"October 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I have some good news - and I have some bad news.\" That was what what an agent in a fellow broker's office stood up to announce at their weekly meeting. \"I just picked up a new listing.\" And the laughter ensued. 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'cause you get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Real Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/232\/if-the-cute-little-baby-wants-to-chew-up-your-copyrights-who-are-you-to-complain\/","url_meta":{"origin":16541,"position":3},"title":"If the cute little baby wants to chew up your copyrights, who are you to complain?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Marlow Harris at 360Digest has an incisive post about the incipient conflict between copyright-holding brokers and national dot.com real estate listing aggregators:But what does the agent do who has signed a TOS Agreement with their broker indicating that the Broker owns the listings and the broker does not want their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2918,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2918\/80000-members-and-only-300-have-anything-to-sell\/","url_meta":{"origin":16541,"position":4},"title":"80,000 Members And Only 300 Have Anything To Sell?","author":"Barry Cunningham","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to questioning certain real estate agents as to just what they do that justifies the commission that they charge, we also have wondered aloud if the real estate market is in the state that it is because there are \"no buyers\"or is the real estate market in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.realestateradiousa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/inactive.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19138,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/19138\/redfin-runs-out-of-other-brokers-agents-to-milk-resolves-to-milk-its-own-instead\/","url_meta":{"origin":16541,"position":5},"title":"Redfin runs out of other brokers&#8217; agents to milk, resolves to milk its own, instead.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cThere are two real estate brokerage business models: Selling houses or milking agents. 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