I’m in the market for a larger house and use Zillow all the time. I know for a fact it is a little quirky with properties up for rent or sale but not showing so on the App.
Zillow all the time.
Zillow is a good tool to look for trends and interesting locations.
It is a bad tool to use for actively shopping as many have offers by the time Zillow posts them.
I never used it to sell or rent anything yet.
I used Realtor.com and Zillow.. We bought in another state so we looked at at least one hundred homes on line before we traveled to view them in person. We wound up buying the second house we viewed online.
What a great tool to save days and hours without going from house to house.
Zillow is riddled with bizarre errors when estimating the value of various homes. My own house is listed as a duplex when it is a single family home. Each unit in the duplex is the same exact house with the same exact rooms! I’ve tried to get them to correct it, but it remains listed that way. When you go to a map of my neighborhood and find my house from an aerial view and click on it, the address is wrong, even though it is my house exactly. The values on each of these houses varies by $45,000 even in each case, it is my house. If they make that many errors on my own house, it makes me wonder about everything else they publish.
I love Trulia
My boss sold his house in three days using it. And if he could do it... I’ve only used it to look and was a bit perplexed that my house (I’m first owner of it and bought new in 2006) was listed as having 16 bathrooms. It was that way for three or four years but has since been reduced to 4.5.
I bought my house using Zillow. Obviously, I had a local realtor as well. Hope the glitches get straightened out for you.
I use hot pads. hot pads will link to zillow and others.
I bought a house I found using Zillow. It was great.
Never listed anything.
I’m a real estate investor who posts once a year there, so I think that the trouble might be that it takes 48 hours for Zillow to propogate your posting as the owner of the property that you claim. Secondly, don’t forget to use Craigslist as a posting resource!
There is one tool which Zillow has that the other online real-estate sites lack, and that is the “Lot Lines” function in the maps screen. That shows the other available homes in the same neighborhood and area. Wish the others would have it, since it’s pretty useful to check out the other homes in the area.
I know your are referring to a rental property that you have listed, I have no knowledge about this part of Zillow.
My Wife is a RE Broker/Owner here in Montana and we are a nondisclosure state — so any prices Zillow lists are guesses, not all states are nondisclosure (it means that the sale price is private and NOT available through the County Treasurer).
I mention this only for those of you whom are looking to buy in your state or another state call a Realtor(r) and find out if your/the next state is nondisclosure...
Realtor.com is a very good site and is aligned with the national MLS (Multiple Listing Service) which is regulated and very accurate. (I know folks hate Realtors and Lawyers... I come from a long line of defense attorneys - the kind of lawyers Doctors invite to their cocktail parties - and my Wife’s brokerage is dedicated to clients needs and she charges less than the going percentage).
Just added into this thread as an FYI...every state is different.
I forgot to mention something that you probably will disregard anyway, but I feel compelled to express. “Listing an apartment for rental.”
DON’T.
I just had lunch so I won’t go into the reasons. You can find them online by searching “landlord horror stories.”
I personally know people who have worse experiences than any I’ve read about online.
Office space for rent, that’s dandy. But if you have residential property, sell it like a fish in the noonday heat.
I used Zillow and Trulia all the time when I was helping my 2 kids look for their homes. They did too.
My sister in law sold her cottage on Zillow, by owner listing.
Not sure why they are not allowing you to list or others to see. Do you have legal papers you could fax as proof? Maybe that would help.
Inherited my current house. Been here for over twenty years. Used a realtor to handle the paperwork when I took township.
In my opinion, realtors earn their percentage. I'd never have managed during my time on active duty without their help.
I use Zillow both to sell houses and for rental houses - works great.
Zillow posts are automatically fed to Trulia.
Zillow has no credibility whatsoever. My house sits on 4 lots, but the reported value is based on the public data for only one of the lots (the one corresponding to the street address). Also, it’s lakefront, and the so-called “comps” they list usually include no lakefront property at all. They base them on sq footage and number of rooms. It’s a complete fraud. The value they show for my house is about 1/3 of what it should be, based on actual lakefront property sales in my neighborhood and the proper consideration of the entire property.
If you want plain-jane subdivision property, maybe its ok.