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Honestly a great start up would be a review system for house listings.

Users can rate how accurate the description was, the real life flaws and even upload their own photos.

Side note: last time I looked for a house I really wasted 95% of my time because every house had one unique major flaw that would have made me not even bother going to see it.

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Announcers get very touchy with listings data, so even compiling listings from multiple sources is hard without getting cease-and-desisted. Then, realtors will certainly flood competing announcements and post fake reviews. It's an aggressive market.

Honestly just market to customers that feel deceived. They just log in and enter an address and post a review. No listing data needed.

You could get really sophisticated with quality checking reviews.

(We tend to believe all review systems have to be bad because that’s all we see. But most reviews systems are broken because a working system is a conflict of interest for the platform they’re on.)

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