Posted on 02/06/2007 2:51:19 PM PST by Brian Mosely
Photographers from a Canadian company are going house to house, shooting pictures of the roughly 300,000 houses in metropolitan Tucson.
It's part of an effort to photograph and appraise every house in the country, creating a database that can be sold to banks and insurance companies.
While the city attorney says the activity is perfectly legal, it has officials and some residents concerned about privacy rights.
And real estate agents, to whom the company hopes to market the information and pictures, question the value of the database.
(Excerpt) Read more at azstarnet.com ...
http://www.zillowblog.com/zillow_blog/2006/04/zillow_homes_in.html
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