Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lake Homes Realty

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The result was delete. –Darkwind (talk) 07:28, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lake Homes Realty[edit]

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Non-notable real estate company. Even assuming that their claim to be "nation's largest lake-focused real estate brokerage" is accurate, being "largest" (size? coverage? profits? I don't know) in a niche of real estate isn't notable. The co-owners have received a bit of local recognition. I was unable to find significant coverage in reliable sources. As for the sources in the article, they consist of:

the firm's official website
Underdog, which is a dubious site; their terms of use imply it's user-generated content, while their About says author Jason Navallo conducts interviews for research purposes, and looking at his books, my best guess is it's a marketing quid pro quo: businesses get an "interview" posted and Navallo compiles and resells them as ebooks
Mashable, STL News, and Boston.com are just general real estate articles with brief mention/quote from Phillips
Inc.com verifies on list of "top 5000" (not very selective or notable) (I added the ref to Inc.com, to replace the previous source, a press release)
Local recognition from Birmingham Business Journal Schazjmd (talk) 22:35, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alabama-related deletion discussions. Schazjmd (talk) 22:37, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:TNT, WP:SPAM, WP:NOTWEBHOST, WP:MILL, and WP:NCORP. What a mess. "It says" is not a source - it is not even wrong. The turgid writing goes downhill into the lake from there. This is obvious spam, which might have been excused in 2003, but in 2020, everybody knows we are a charity and not a free web host for profit real estate companies. Claims that it's the biggest in a small market just show how run of the mill it is, and how it is not really a notable company. It reminds me of my Realtor who claims it has "the most exclusives in Cherry Grove". Bearian (talk) 22:12, 9 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 04:55, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The CEO mentioned in the bottom of the article seems more notable then the firm itself, operating in a part of Alabama isn't notable. Oaktree b (talk) 02:24, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.