Of course, Redfin and Zillow have a leg up in the residential space, but ultimately, especially in residential RE, there is a human element that can't be replaced by robots.

Statutorily raising the cost of labor above what the free market will bear will likely worsen unemployment, drive business toward automation and robots, and worsen the lack of opportunity of many of the unskilled and lower classes.  

I recently decided to create my own letter to market with but could not decide if it was more important to get the point across and not seem so much like a robotic dialogue or have it be professional with a border and logo etc..

Great Response Anish, I feel SF, Bay Area will continue to see various technology waves over the next many decades, the most recent being Apple, Facebook, NVidia, Google, Dropbox, Pinterest, Uber etcNext will be Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Self driving cars and things we can't even imagine and predict at the moment!

When Walmart, IKEA and alike can always hire more robots to replace people who demand a living wage?

I would think of something more personal and something that they can feel like you are actually a human being rather than just a robot typing a letter.

AIR is very heavy-handed and authoritarian, and their tech support is poor.....you will rarely if ever get an English speaking tech person and they are like robots and pretty useless.

Sounds funky but I text a robot every day to remind me at specific times what task I should be working on.

We're going to have driverless trucks transporting materials,  autonomous quadcopter drone fleets and other robots assembling, maintaining, recycling standardized multifamily. 3/4 of existing housing in this country is going to go to the bulldozers in 100 years because the skills to maintain it will simply be gone.

Probaly cut my time by 80%.After its done with these I could send it to my active listings, and do a quick walk through there, make sure nothing is out of order...if you could create software  program for drone/robot  to do basic cleaning tasks that would be helpful and I would pay a premium.As im thinking about this....there are more uses, I recently reduced my time looking at houses by about 80%, by training someone to do the walk thrus, run an analysis sheet, and taking a few crucial pictures and put them on dropbox.