Neighbors can affect the value of your home (and your peace of mind). But no computer program can account for them. Hence, they are unzillowable.
(aaa… does a buyer really want to live next to your asshole neighbor?)
Zillow me this?:
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I coined the term unzillowable in this post on August 13, 2006 and described it the next day in this post. The first real estate listing to use the word was by Jay Thompson in Arizona.
Unzillowable, adjective (un zil’ o bull): unable to be valued by the popular website zillow.com.
“This state-of-the-art mansion in Texas, [...]
Conducting an environmental investigation for hazardous and toxic waste is normally beyond the scope of a real estate agent or broker. But not to worry. The US Environmental Protection Agency has a website which lets you search by zip code to determine if any environmental hazards, toxic waste facilities, polluted waterways and Superfund sites are [...]
New York City’s 311 service is designed to help answer its citizens’ questions and complaints.
The 311 Customer Service Center provides non-emergency government information and services. In order to improve the transparency of services being provided to the public, the Office of Operations and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications will regularly report 311-generated information [...]
In the name of transparency, is a real estate listing agent required to disclose rotten neighbors to prospective buyers or renters? Should a listing agent do it anyway? Would disclosure be in keeping with the fiduciary duty to the seller/client? Rotten tenants are as unzillowable as traffic noise and odors in determining [...]
via Robert Melton’s Pittsburgh Homes Daily. And we thought unzillowable was catchy.
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The alleged window used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate John F. Kennedy has been sold for $3 million. The Texas Schoolbook Depository is privately owned and the family sold the window on e-bay. Sometimes, even a window can be unzillowable because of its provenance.
Source: BBC News.
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