RE Agents Hate Brownstoner
So I been doing lots of open houses the past few months looking for a place. Every time I encounter a real estate agent and mention Brownstoner, their demeanor changes. Some have flat out said they hate this site. What’s with all the animosity towards Brownstoner? This is a great site! Most probably feel we…
So I been doing lots of open houses the past few months looking for a place. Every time I encounter a real estate agent and mention Brownstoner, their demeanor changes. Some have flat out said they hate this site. What’s with all the animosity towards Brownstoner? This is a great site! Most probably feel we (users) force RE agents, developers, etc on being more honest. So they cant cut corners and blatantly lie. What do you all think? Similar experience in the field?
Don’t see why an ethical Broker would hate this site. After all – they seem to be the biggest sponsors of the site, eventhough they’re up for a lot of abuse by a lot of posters, many of whom don’t don’t have a clue about Real Estate.
“MORE SPECIFICALLY, there used to be a bar on the left with Real Estate Web site links, and I would scan them religiously every day for new listings. These were not just “corcoran” and “brown harris stevens”it was all the little local ones”
So true Iz, I miss that feature too.
Maybe that’s why brownstoner is hated on? The free links have gone bye bye.
“So, when I invested in Wburg in 2006, I felt pretty confident, and still do.”
So THAT’S why everything you ever post on here is about how all of North Brooklyn is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
“When I started reading and posting on these sites, I thought that i was going to be a good guy and help folks out who didn’t have my experience or research.”
You don’t help anyone out when you adopt a completely uncritical rah-rah cheerleading attitude toward your own neighborhood because you’re afraid your investment might go south.
Realtors are salespeople. They are what they are. If you can’t see through a sales pitch you shouldn’t complain about getting had.
But I can see why realtors would hate B’stoner. Salespeople who are trying to push overpriced product hate informed customers. Salespeople with competitive product love informed customers. With the likes of B’stoner out there, how can realtors create a false sense of urgency and an expectation that prices will just keep going up?
Why would real estate agents hate a site that gives their properties more exposure?
Everyone knows not to take what people write on these sites as the “final word”…so all it does it give more exposure to the listings.
BHO – do you know something about China’s plans fo the US that we don’t?
I am a real estate agent and I love Brownstoner. It’s an incredibly valuable source of information about many Brooklyn neighborhoods and I find it’s generally very correct — and that mistakes, once caught, are quickly rectified.
What I do not like (nor do most of my colleagues) is the mean-spirited, inaccurate, and just plain inflamatory nature of many of the comments. For that reason I tend not to read them.
Jon & Co, you do a great job. Thanks!
A day will come when the internet gets profoundly regulated.
***Bid half off peak comps***
long before brownstoner or curbed or street easy… i explored real estate in brooklyn. I started in 1996. i did it on foot attending dozens of open houses every weekend. i was overlapping looking at properties while buying and selling at different times. i have always based my information on my own research. i covered all of gentrified brownstone brooklyn from the heights to Ditmas Park and kensington even and of course williamsburg.
some times, i found myself to be more knowledgeable than the real estate agents, but really found many to be just fine and some really good. i don’t totally understand all the negativity against brokers.
the comments on these sites for sure include some that are utterly wrong. just wrong. but because they are written, they somehow get passed along and become true even when the facts point otherwise. doesn’t affect my actual experience of my property or neighborhood, but think that if I don’t counter these misconceptions, then people doing a search down the road won’t hear the truth.
I bought a brownstone in cobble hill in ’97 and a house in Park Slope in 2000 right off of 5th avenue in central slope. Note, both purchases prior to the explosions of Smith Street and Fifth Avenues. Pretty good. So, when I invested in Wburg in 2006, I felt pretty confident, and still do.
When I started reading and posting on these sites, I thought that i was going to be a good guy and help folks out who didn’t have my experience or research. hardly! so many people are simply posting to be difficult, negative or to find an outlet for their frustrations. read half these comments and want to direct people to a therapist.