I lived in Riverdale for 7 years, and have sold apts at Skyview in the past, and not have active listings at Skyview. The old StreetEasy that we all knew and love is now owned by Zillow. If you doubt this, just scroll to the bottom of any page on StreetEasy and you will see the Zillow Sites, Inc copyright. In the old days when StreetEasy listed the top five sales agents and top five rental agents... [more]
I lived in Riverdale for 7 years, and have sold apts at Skyview in the past, and not have active listings at Skyview.
The old StreetEasy that we all knew and love is now owned by Zillow. If you doubt this, just scroll to the bottom of any page on StreetEasy and you will see the Zillow Sites, Inc copyright. In the old days when StreetEasy listed the top five sales agents and top five rental agents in a building, it was truly based on closed transactions by those individual agents. Unfortunately, that all changed when Zillow bought StreetEasy. They immediately saw an opportunity to charge agents, like myself, for the building expert slot. So, StreetEasy created the Building Expert title as a revenue stream for them, to sell as advertising to the agents in this market.
Since StreetEasy refuses to be transparent about this fact, I am simply stating the facts here, facts that may not be obvious to the consumer. On 25 June 2015, at an event called The Future of Real Estate, one agent asked Susan Daimler, the general manager of StreetEasy and Zillow NYC, “Does two sales in two years [make someone an] expert?”, and I followed that up by asking Ms. Daimer to (have StreetEasy) begin to display the words "paid advertisement" under each building expert as a way to be truly transparent to the consumer. She did not reply. Shouldn't the consumer know this fact? I think so. Here’s a link to a Real Deal article about that event: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/06/25/streeteasy-exec-takes-heat-for-building-expert-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=streeteasy-exec-takes-heat-for-building-expert-program.
I am confident that you will find that I make it a point to really learn a building and its management, and Skyview is no different. I have had the opportunity to meet and get to know the managing agent, and the board’s requirements. I look forward to helping you to sell or buy at this wonderful coop.
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Response by jelj13
about 10 years ago
Posts: 821
Member since: Sep 2011
I ignore the top sales agents list. I lived in a complex as large as Skyview and laughed when I saw the "top agent" for our complex. He did not have a good reputation with sellers in the complex. He sold the most apartments by pushing low ball prices so he could sell quickly and get his commission. For those apartments that absolutely had to be repaired or sold to be marketable, he brought in his own people who did shoddy work (eg foam/plastic "crown moulding".)
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Response by lpresser
about 10 years ago
Posts: 19
Member since: Jan 2008
One other note to the Consumer: The brokerage community has become aware that StreetEasy is using a system in order to track phone calls made to the Building Expert. They do this through the use of Phone Tracking Numbers. If you visit my Building Expert Page for this building, you will notice that the phone number displayed is NOT my direct number, 347-829-9996. Instead it is a phone number that StreetEasy owns and forwards to me. The issue here is one of privacy: Were you aware that StreetEasy has captured the phone number that you called from? Not sure if StreetEasy would ever consider marketing to your phone, but it is not inconceivable to think that they would at some point. So, my suggestion is that when you want top contact a Building Expert, before you dial the phone number on the Building page, click on the agent's name to open the Agent's Page on StreetEasy, and call one of the phone numbers the agent has displayed. Your privacy matters!
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I ignore the top sales agents list. I lived in a complex as large as Skyview and laughed when I saw the "top agent" for our complex. He did not have a good reputation with sellers in the complex. He sold the most apartments by pushing low ball prices so he could sell quickly and get his commission. For those apartments that absolutely had to be repaired or sold to be marketable, he brought in his own people who did shoddy work (eg foam/plastic "crown moulding".)
One other note to the Consumer: The brokerage community has become aware that StreetEasy is using a system in order to track phone calls made to the Building Expert. They do this through the use of Phone Tracking Numbers. If you visit my Building Expert Page for this building, you will notice that the phone number displayed is NOT my direct number, 347-829-9996. Instead it is a phone number that StreetEasy owns and forwards to me. The issue here is one of privacy: Were you aware that StreetEasy has captured the phone number that you called from? Not sure if StreetEasy would ever consider marketing to your phone, but it is not inconceivable to think that they would at some point. So, my suggestion is that when you want top contact a Building Expert, before you dial the phone number on the Building page, click on the agent's name to open the Agent's Page on StreetEasy, and call one of the phone numbers the agent has displayed. Your privacy matters!