{"id":753,"date":"2006-12-08T18:31:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T01:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2007-04-20T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:41:15","slug":"zillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/753\/zillow\/","title":{"rendered":"In the trenches with Zillow.com: A working Realtor’s first-hand experience listing a home . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Zillow has had Greg’s attention for a long time, going back to an Odysseus post from last February<\/a>, when we were blogging for our own entertainment. Greg has debunked Zillow<\/a>, he’s defended Zillow<\/a>, but till this week I’ve<\/i> been indifferent. Zillow has held as much relevance for me as Ragnarok Online<\/a>. Both have inspired a lot of buzz among their audiences, but neither made my life better, easier, happier, so I’ve not wasted time on them.<\/p>\n

But this past Monday, when David Gibbons told us about Zillow’s plans to add the For Sale<\/i> and Make Me Move<\/i> tools to their comprehensive database, he gave me a reason to care. When someone hires me to sell her house, one of my jobs is to let as many prospective buyers as possible know that this house is for sale. Zillow will help me find an audience that I might not already be getting through buyers’ brokers, drive-bys, Realtor.com, open houses… So now Zillow has<\/i> made my life better, easier, happier, by giving me a tool to bring my client’s house to more potential buyers.<\/p>\n

To get to know this new tool, I claimed our own house<\/a> on My Zillow<\/a>. Here I got to experience first hand the problem with using Zillow for an accurate estimation of a house’s value. We live on a wonderfully eclectic street of ranch, bi-level and split-level 1960’s houses in the North Central Phoenix subdivision, Terry Terrace. Lots are all around 8000 square feet, but the houses range between 1400 to 2850 square feet. At 1993 square feet, ours is about average. The people who remodeled the house before we bought it did some wonderful things — enclosing the carport to make a 2-car garage and landscaping were minor compared to the the major improvement of raising the ceiling and removing the labyrinth of walls common in 1962, to open up the living area side of the house into two huge, very livable and very workable rooms. Then they added requisite granite, 18″ tile, designer cabinets and upgraded appliances. And, since we’ve moved in we’ve upgraded the bathrooms and all the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zillow has had Greg’s attention for a long time, going back to an Odysseus post from last February, when we were blogging for our own entertainment. Greg has debunked Zillow, he’s defended Zillow, but till this week I’ve been indifferent. Zillow has held as much relevance for me as Ragnarok Online. 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