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From the category archives:
ABC news reports on a problem that appears to have spread nation-wide—fake broker’s collecting deposits on apartments they don’t represent. The Federal Trade Comission has a press release with some tips to apartment hunters on how to avoid this scam. Cutting to the chase, the FTC says “When you use a bulletin board website, it’s [...]
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The Big Three
Price, size, location are the big three criteria. Nobody lives in Boston because it’s affordable or because the rental housing is in great shape. You live here for the stuff outside your apartment; the schools, the night-life, the museums, the clubs, the bars, the jobs, the opportunity. Once you sign a lease, barring [...]
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I was talking to a friend the other day about what it was what The Boston Realty Hub was trying to do at our site at OnMarketBoston—trying to create a more transparent world. A world where people can get real information on the web, themselves, without having to work through an intermediary.
We’re a small company, [...]
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Yup, that’s the new marketing phrase. Because we Got Real. We type it in, those real on market properties, normalize that data, geocode it, verify it; if a mistake slips in, our network of agencies calls us and makes us fix it, lickity split. (I’ve never typed the words ‘lickity split’ before. Sorry you had [...]
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This article titled Why Are These Renters Smiling, in the current New York Times details the drastically falling prices in all burroughs of the Big Apple.
Rents are down throughout New York. According to the February Manhattan Rental Market Report produced by the Real Estate Group, a New York brokerage firm, rents in the borough have [...]
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The personal is political. When we talk about a little thing like web-based apartment hunting, we find ourselves talking about the professional ethics of the broker / agent comunitiy, about how changes in technology produces changes in human behavior, and about the future of that change, the direction in which we [...]
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