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There's an article in Bloomberg Business Week.

Zillow wants to flip your house.

This is really good, definitely worth reading.

I didn't really think of Zillow as an ad company

until I read this.

So they said, Zillow makes money by offering its big audience to real estate agents who pay for the privilege of putting their smiling faces and contact info in front of all of those house hunters.

The company expects 2018 ad revenue to be about 1.3 billion dollars.

So you just went through the home buying process,

or the home selling process, I guess both.

I think this actually kind of makes sense in a lot of ways

where they will just give you in a mountain,

say here it is, take it or leave it minus their cut don't you

think that you probably would have done that if they would have given you a

reasonable offer maybe I mean it says the commissions are higher because what is it

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