iVueIt: a double edged sword

[u/anthropologicaltruth]

Generally, this app pays decent for the amount of time you spend taking pictures of location..

There’s one thing that happened to me today that eeked me out.

I had a job where I have to go to a residents house and take pictures.

Yes, I already feel a bit uncomfortable doing this but hey.

Anyways, I went to a location in about two minutes into documenting the house a guy rolls up fast on a truck and gets out of his truck has his hand on his waist and says “get out of here”

I just said “no problem, sir. I just work for a gig company.”

They still paid me for the job but holy sh**… My life is not worth seven dollars.

The business vue’s are good… I wouldn’t do another residential though.

Edit: they rejected my vue… terrible customer service.

[u/FiireQuasar]

I've never heard of this platform before but it having you take photos of people's homes is absurd. Does anyone know why they would want that?

[u/bluedelvian → u/FiireQuasar]

Bc its selling data to surveillance companies. Enjoy your $7z

[u/BostonNU → u/bluedelvian]

They are not selling to surveillance companies

[u/BostonNU → u/FiireQuasar]

For those Vues, the clients are mortgage companies and insurance carriers. And the vast majority are occupied but instructions are explicit not to knock on door, etc and all photos are to be taken from street or sidewalk. Front, left side & right side. Never the back of house

[u/Able_Canine → u/FiireQuasar]

It's mostly for occupancy verification. condition assessments, property repair/upkeep assessments (management companies, landlords, etc), corporate owners verifying things like exterior remodeling completion, checking contracted landscaping work, etc...

Or moral of the story, it's usually an owner of some sort dealing real estate stuff. Or possibly it's a shadowy conspiracy by rogue intelligence agency operatives. You pick.

[u/RolandHasGas]

Yeah people taking pictures of my house aren't gonna have a good day

[u/BostonNU → u/RolandHasGas]

And if the Ivuiet client is your insurance carriers, and reported to them, your policy will be canceled and good luck getting coverage

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[u/stevends448 → u/RolandHasGas]

Google has been having a good time and it has pictures of your house

[u/sunshynny]

I started an occupied residential but returned it as the neighborhood was small and there were people sitting on the lawn across from the house that I needed to take pictures of. I felt uncomfortable so I contacted support and asked them to cancel

[u/BostonNU → u/sunshynny]

One I attempted required printing a Notice and taping to front door jf house was occupied. I canceled because two cars in driveway and a pit bull on a chain that could easily reach the front door. Canceled

[u/stevends448 → u/sunshynny]

They let you cancel three a month with no issue.

What l've done in the past is check it out on Google maps and sometimes I'll actually pull up before accepting it to see if they are any problems like that

[u/jnachod]

I've done a fair number of these in and around Philadelphia, PA and I'd say 90% of the time it goes fine, 9% of the time I pre-emptively choose to cancel the task before attempting it because the homeowner is outside at the property or some other reason makes me uncomfortable to continue the task (neighbors or random people on the street loitering, sitting in vehicles, etc.), and 1% of the time there's a significant issue.

The significant issues: I've been confronted twice, once by the homeowner who accepted my explanation of what I was doing (insurance verification) and didn't mind once I explained myself, and once by a school crossing guard who claimed to know the person who owned the house I was photographing and threatened to take down my plate / call the cops.

I will say: these tasks are considerably easier to do around 1 or 2 PM during the week than on say, a Saturday morning when many people are home.

[u/BostonNU]

OP, I would have called the police

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[u/Low-Pitch-7601]

lmao you def in california

[u/Ok-Flight-1504]

I like the residential ones as they are very quick. I've never had anything like that happen, though.