• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    23 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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      23 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.