Archive for the 'zillow' Category



How Using Zillow Might Raise Your Property Taxes

It’s the time of the season. No, not for love, but for taxes. Hence, this post for the property tax paying homeowner. You.
Zillow allows a homeowner to voluntarily correct or add data to their home listed on Zillow.com. This additional or corrected data may increase the value or zestimate of […]

Zillow’s Bogus Listings: Houses Listed for Sale Without Owners Knowledge

I just wrote a post on the fake ads on Craigslist. Now, I read there are similar shenanigans going on at Zillow. Seems folks will find the holes in any system, even ones built with zillions of dollars, like Zillow.
Case in point:
Mr. John Contos’ California house was listed for sale on Zillow, without […]

Show Me the ROI: Is Web 2.0 a Load of Hooey or Who’s Making Hay?

Some folks in the real estate industry have decided it’s about time to ask “how big is yours?” referring, of course, to your big bucks return on your time investment in blogging, social media, Active Raining, Facebooking, Web 2.0 yada yada yadaing…. or are you just havin’ fun?
Some question whether old school methods […]

On the Way to the Zillow Beer with Bloggers Party

Source: WellcomeMatWe met some great people on the way to the Zillow Beer with Bloggers Party…Starring - David G, Drew Meyers, John McKnight, Tom Valetta, Jay Thompson, Michael Price, Lucas Lechuga, Kevin Tomlinson, Beth, Joe Price, Lenore and Alex Wilkas, Bernice Ross, Frances Flynn Thorsen, Doug Heddings, Amy, Diane Cohn, Guy “NRG” Johnson, Joel Burslem, […]

Is This Zillow Ad Misleading?

This Zillow print ad appears in RISMedia’s December 2007 issue. We wonder if Zillow has evidence to show you will sell a house faster on it’s site than somewhere else. And to what are they comparing? Knowing Zillow’s reputation for transparency, we ask they back up their marketing claim with some data. […]

Zillow: Soft Pillows and Soft Porn

Is Zillow.com keeping watch on its trademark? Apparently, others are using the word zillow to market pillows and blog about fishnets (and we’re not talking fishermen). Since it’s not real estate related (as far as we can tell from our investigation), it just might be legal.
Here’s the Zillow Pillow. Just $20.

The Zillow Book came […]

Zillow GPS

Zillow GPS? Yeah, Loren from The Future of Real Estate Technology has the scoop.

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Owners in Zillowland: We Want Out, Zestimates Removed

As any long time reader of this blog knows, we believe it is every homeowner’s RIGHT to decide:

where their property is listed for saleĀ  (or not listed)
how it is marketed and advertised
not have false or misleading information attached to the home, and
who will list, advertise and market their home as their agent.

In our […]

Zillow Needs More Money and Gets It

Investors who know Rich Barton, founder of Expedia, have given his valuation website Zillow $87 million so far to figure out how to make money from the real estate industry. Barton, who has no experience in the real estate business, decided homes were just like cars and said he would create the Kelley […]

The Power of Print: Perception as Truth

Don’t believe everything you read, and only half of what you see.
I found the piece below in today’s OC Register, Marketplace /Building and Growth section. The small subheading reads: From the Blog Files. Jonathan Lanser is the OC Register blogmeister so it may fall under his jurisdiction. This little piece of pseudo-journalism sits […]