Ever Use Zillow To Learn More About Your Customers?

Mike Finley

It's really kind of against my thoughts on sticking to a system, putting your blinders on and just selling. But I have caught myself pulling up Zillow.com to get some insight into a potential customer.

Susan Betz

How so? Did they do an owner evaluation of their property?

I like Zillow for price and comps. If a client uses it and puts in their own eval, that could be a bonus, as they have to make their own value estimates.

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Mike Finley

I've just used it to see if the customer is living in a $200,000 neighborhood or a $500,000 neighborhood. Just as a curiosity and to get an idea of what their expectations might be.

Cole

I use it all the time.

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Susan Betz

Oh yeah, for that it's great. You don't have to apologize for using all the tools at your disposal.

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Ed the Roofer

I never heard of it. What else do they provide as far as client intel?

Ed

Celic

I've used zillow.com ...and also searchbug.com ...my favorite is a gov't site which I have acess to....I can get all the details on a home (block/lot, last sold date/price, tax, owner's name etc.)
A not-so-intense site that anyone can access (although if your not doing work in NJ kind of pointless) is:

(add the h t t p: / / w w w....post count is too low for a working link)

That site can be a wealth of information for NJ people (contractors or otherwise)

Celic

Not much.
Zillow only gives a "Z-stimate" on the value of the home ... and a map that is pretty good (not as good as google's or MS's local live)...that's about it.