[109101] in Cypherpunks
Re: Someone taking photos of my house today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Wed Mar 10 12:16:30 1999
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
To: tcmay@got.net
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:04:15 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03130306b30a01dd878a@[209.66.100.86]> from "Tim May" at Mar 8, 99 02:57:21 pm
Reply-To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Tim May writes:
[someone taking pictures of his house]
> What it means, I don't know. The most innocuous theory being that it was
> some kind of real estate agent taking photos for possible future use. Not
> overly likely, as the car looked older (the blue license plate tag implies
> an age of at least 15 years or so, as California stopped maing blue tags).
> And it's raining fairly hard...hardly a good day to collect real estate
> photos. Most real estate agents around here drive late model cars, BMWs,
> Mercedes, etc.
It's probably a real estate 'appraiser' researching comparable
houses ("comps"). This is done both for the buyer and seller, as
both are interested in knowing the relative value of the house in
question. While this is most commonly done with houses that
have recently been on the market, houses in the Santa Cruz mountains
are pretty unique and appraisers sometimes have to settle
for whatever they can get that's close.
The people I've seen doing this aren't real estate agents driving fancy
cars, but 'ordinary' looking people that the agents hire or contract out to.
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