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Since CondoCompare launched I’ve been thinking of getting in touch with them to talk condos, websites and blogs since they run a Seattle condo MLS search site and I run a very popular Seattle condo blog.
However, when their CEO makes a comment about my company like the one below on Rain City Guide it really pisses me off:
But I wouldn’t necessarily compare us with Zillow as we are a brokerage and not with Redfin as we aren’t trying to cut the legs off of good agents
No one at Redfin has cut the legs off an agent, good or bad. I also think everyone forgets that Redfin is staffed by real estate agents. We now have so many in Seattle that I don’t know everyone crammed over in that side of the office any more.107 bad loan home creditloan no payday interest 16 11equity home loans 125bank loan 125 of america125 loan program1300 credit no loan2nd refinance loan 20 mortgage 1stloans car 1st investorsunsecured personal 2000 loan 00personal 2002 credit bad loan
May 24th, 2007 at 1:17 am
I add that they were properly chastised for having made that comment on RCG as follows:
” Let’s get off the whole “my business model is better than Redfin’s” thing. I’m just sick of hearing about everything Redfin doesn’t do right. At least sandwich what they do wrong with a couple of things they do right. You lost me at, “we aren’t trying to cut the legs off of good agents”. I don’t even want to know what you were thinking when you said that.”
May 24th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Thanks Ardell :).
May 24th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Matt,
Cutting off legs is a figure of speech. It is true that Redfin is undercutting other agents with discounted fees and a slimmed down service model. That is what I am trying to convey with the legs being cut off comment. I haven’t heard any stories of actual legs being cut off, I was just using a phrase that seemed obvious to me at the time. I think you all are doing a good job at what you are doing, and if we can come along side in some way it may be interesting for both parties…