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Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture

39 points • by WaitWaitWha • today at 3:48 AM • 9 comments • view on HN

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mlinhares • today at 4:40 AM

Everyone is a genius in a bull market. I remember a friend saying they were going to buy teslas to then re-sell them at a higher price around the same time because "teslas aren't like normal cars, they're an appreciating asset".

Thankfully he ended up not having enough money to pull this off so didn't lose everything either.

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lifeisloving • today at 6:35 AM

During the crazy low rates period, I built some CRM tools for some people where all they would do is make 50k offers a month on homes across the country on zillow at like ~85% market value, get some under contract and double close at 110% to opendoor, and they'd collect the 20% or so at closing. They just would put earnest money down. They made millions doing this before opendoor said something.

natas • today at 4:49 AM

probably lower than their anthropic bill