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KILLING BROKERAGE--HOW LONG BEFORE ZILLOW SUCCEEDS???
KILLING BROKERAGE--HOW LONG BEFORE ZILLOW SUCCEEDS???
The Headline says it all: Zillow Launches Instant Offers Pilot Program  
This is another way to allow sellers to list their homes and for buyers to buy them, resulting in a deal without having to pay a commission!! Sound familiar? I wrote a post several weeks back about another such Zillow link designed to side-step brokerages and to allow deals to get done without the "interference" of an agent:
MAKE ME MOVE...Another Way To Take Money Out of Your Pocket!!
Meanwhile, the push to get agents to pay Zillow for their own listings has heated up and here in the Hamptons now there are more and more agents buying into it just to survive. 
It is a major shakedown that Zillow is doing--like the mafia---making you pay for "Protection" of your own listings!!! By the way they now have THREE ways for owners to list their properties with Zillow so they can do direct deals--with no commission at all!
Unfortunately, informing our fellow agents has had very little if any impact--I have been blogging about this since 2007!! It is a fact that Zillow has a stated goal to put ALL brokerages out of business and they are well on their way to doing ... more

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