You guys login to Costar today?
LOL. Fucking seriously?
[{"id": "dshp178", "text": "Yea, not seeing anything unusual.  Am I missing something?", "replies": [{"id": "dsiqzoi", "text": "Same here.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dsivpuu", "text": "looks normal for me as well. though i don't use the apps at all, just desktop browser.", "replies": [{"id": "dsix2rc", "text": "Yea, desktop here too", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dsxdm8a", "text": "i'm late to the party but I've been on it since this was posted and had no issues.  Same shit, login, they text your phone, you put the code in.....", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dshplxy", "text": "I don't know, perhaps it's because we added 2 additional seats but the process is now...\n\nStep 1. Download their app\n\nStep 2. Allow location tracking on your phone\n\nStep 3. Login on your phone.\n\nStep 4. TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR FACE SO THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE\n\nStep 5. Login on your computer\n\nStep 6. Confirm, on your phone, that you are trying to log in.\n\nStep 7. TAKE A PICTURE WITH YOUR PHONE OF A FLASHING QR CODE ON YOUR DESKTOP SO COSTAR CAN \nCONFIRM IT.\n\n\nStep 8. TAKE ANOTHER FUCKING PICTURE OF YOUR FACE.\n\nStep 9. Enjoy.", "replies": [{"id": "dsi1c2i", "text": "Wtf. Holy crap. They need to go. That's ridiculous.\n\n\nThis really pissed me off. \nHere's what I propose. It's a really simple website. \nIt's called \"which mls\" or something like that. \n\nYou type in a town and it lists. \nBrokers here use \n... For rentals \n... For sales\n\nAnd while it remains fragmented, the obligations to this silly company go away \n\nThey have to be broken up. This is such a crazy invasion of my privicy.", "replies": [{"id": "dsi63dy", "text": "What would you propose to use for market data? We had Costar then for REIS which is terrible and we begged to go back to Costar but I guess the cost was double that of REIS. So no go. ", "replies": [{"id": "dsippyc", "text": "I don't know. Both reis and costar call me every 5 minutes at the office. We don't supply those assholes with data, we're full on boycotting. We don't need them.\n\nDefine market data. Listings?  Or demographic data?", "replies": [{"id": "dsiskm7", "text": "I do CRE underwriting. So for me market would be sales and rent comps etc and I cover a national footprint. ", "replies": [{"id": "dsit5fb", "text": "Can you get those items through an appraisal firm?  I have national clients that will email me for sales/rents all the time to get better data.  We are happy to send them, as long as we get a good chunk of the work and they keep the data confidential.", "replies": [{"id": "dsithpu", "text": "Funny you say that. With all the bank regs we now can\u2019t contact appraisal companies for anything as I\u2019m part of the front sales line. Only our internal appraisal group can converse with outside appraisers. Plus we order from several different companies so it\u2019s hard to say if they\u2019ll get business from us or not. It\u2019s all a bid system as to how we order them. \n\nWe do a lot of our UW subject to appraisal receipt. So I have to typically provide a full review of what I think sales and rent comps will shake out as which can be a struggle with some markets due to lack of data. ", "replies": [{"id": "dsiumfy", "text": "Your bid system doesn't allow you to see who the appraisal firm is?\n\nWould the mortgage broker be able to contact appraisers and get comps?\n\n", "replies": [{"id": "dsiusv9", "text": "We can see in the system but are not allowed to contact the appraiser. When the appraisal even comes back we typically don\u2019t get to see the appraisal until our internal review team goes through it and vets it. \n\nWe honestly don\u2019t work with many brokers. We typically have customers brining us the deals. So we do get some info from them but also we want to do our own due diligence to make sure we come to the same conclusions. ", "replies": [{"id": "dsivbls", "text": "Yea, makes sense!  ", "replies": [], "depth": 10}], "depth": 9}], "depth": 8}], "depth": 7}, {"id": "dsitk7t", "text": "I use local broker opinions. They're better than anything they going to give me\nWhen I'm in smaller markets. Finding rent comps arent on costar. Neither are neighborhood idiosyncrasies", "replies": [{"id": "dsxy6r9", "text": "rent comps aren't maybe but those brokers still use costar.  its all circular.  \n\nI'm in brokerage and I know my market, but I don't know it exactly.  I do both paid and sometimes 'prospective' bpo's for clients I want to work with.  Local market knowledge comes into analyzing comps.  I do not know every single property that sold or leased off the top of my head.  I do know how to pull up old listing and see space leased and I probably know who owns it or who did the deal to verify it and get more info though..... Without data services if you ask me to do a report on a property even a few blocks from my house that may not be hard for me to discuss, but to document is a monumental task without a data service.  ", "replies": [], "depth": 8}], "depth": 7}], "depth": 6}, {"id": "dsk5oju", "text": "Right and thats what sucks, Costar is the best for that and there is no substitute I know of. Its breadth is large enough and everyone views them as a good benchmark for market data. Looking at various free brokerage market reports can be a nightmare because of the disparity in numbers and the different ways they define submarkets.", "replies": [], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dt63czd", "text": "Jesus! And I thought their token was bad when we were using them last year!!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dsi8he4", "text": "Costar and Loopnet need to be boycotted, so sick of the bs ", "replies": [{"id": "dsioq0v", "text": "Loopnet ran fine until costar started merging services", "replies": [{"id": "dswgso5", "text": "CoStar cultist here - no, they didn\u2019t. LoopNet might as well have been Craigslist for all the good the listing info was, not to mention the number of games agents and owners would play. I get why we get hate but try not to look at that pre-2012 LoopNet (or pre-September 2017) like it was Mecca when it was really Mos Eisley.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dsivxkh", "text": "Somone PMed me on here from a brand new account a little while ago asking if I would run a few CoStar reports for them since they no longer used it. Seemed suspicious. Wouldnt be surprised if Costar was trying to trap people into sharing data or something. ", "replies": [{"id": "dsjh6jz", "text": "I wouldn't put it past them.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dske99y", "text": "This happened to me too.  I haven't heard about it myself, but they keep us pretty in the dark.  But we're so allergic to technology I'd be genuinely surprised if they'd heard of Reddit or would see it as a valuable resource of any kind.  Flores is convinced that if the information doesn't come from a telephone call it's not valid.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "dstxi70", "text": "Yep. happened to me too. asked where they were from then just looked at account age. 100% was costar.\n", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dt9a4yi", "text": "Thanks for sharing. Not surprised.\nPlease check out RealtyZapp.com for marketing your listings. \nFREE to post and will always be FREE to search!  \n", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dv6xzan", "text": "That's insane. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]