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You may have seen some stories earlier this month about Flipt, yet another new real estate site based here in the Seattle area.<\/p>\n

Here’s an excerpt from GeekWire’s May 1 story about the launch of Flipt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A new Seattle startup wants to fill what it believes is a gap left by real estate sites like Zillow and Trulia.<\/p>\n

Flipt launched today to provide home buyers and investors with detailed property information pertaining to potential investment value. The company crunches data from a variety of sources and then scores homes on three categories: Fix & Flip, Buy & Hold, or Rent.
\n…
\nNokhrin told GeekWire that his new company differentiates from fellow real estate sites like Seattle-based Zillow and Trulia because of its complex algorithm that was developed with machine-learning capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds pretty cool, right? I tried out the site the same day as the GeekWire story, and something odd immediately stuck out to me. When I pulled up my home on Flipt, they were showing a rather recognizable photo—one that I actually shot myself…<\/p>\n

\"Tim's<\/a><\/p>\n

There is only one place I’ve uploaded this photo of my home with Seattle Bubble’s pink pony mascot Crystal<\/a> and associated it with my address: Zillow.<\/p>\n

Just a day after launching, all the features on the Flipt website disappeared, and everything redirected to their front page, which had been replaced with a message that said “We will be back shortly.”<\/p>\n

This week, after that message changed to just “We will be back,” I decided to dig into the issue with the guys at GeekWire and figure out what happened. John Cook has the write-up of what we found:<\/p>\n

Zillow slaps down Flipt, issues cease-and-desist over hijacked real estate data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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