[...] Kris Berg at The San Diego Home Blog, has a great gift for biting satire. Working together with her husband, Steve, their take on the Zillow.com shake-down is not to be missed… [...]

Honest to God, the sun screen that covers my car windshield to keep out the blazing Phoenix sun says “Caution: Remove Before Driving”.

Here’s my take on the whole silly NCRC/Zillow thing. I like yours better.

http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/howling-for-zillow/

So much for originality! Actually, Jay, I like yours better.

Magic 8 Ball LMAO.

So . . . does this mean I shouldn’t flick my Bic while filling my gas tank?
The problem with stooopid peeple is that some of dem axully beleeve them Zillow estimates.

Let’s not forget the warnings that coffee from McDonalds may actually be hot.

I’ve little sympathy for those living their lives by the Zillow estimates, not when it’s not particularly difficult to find a real estate professional who can tell you whether you are spending too much or attempting to sell too high in short order.

That was hysterical enough to make me choke over my chocolate chip cookie. No doubt God’s way of getting me to stop stuffing my face. I’ve read some of those disclaimers before. My personal favorite is the warning not to iron clothes on one’s body.

Thanks, everyone, for recognizing that this was a tongue in cheek piece. Absent the proper disclaimer, I was afraid I might be getting calls from people wanting to sign up! Jay, I had heard about the windshield screen disclaimer but never confirmed it. (We don’t need such silly things in San Diego). What a riot!

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Freakin’ Hilarious!!!

Kris -
I always read your blog. Thanks for commenting on mine. I looked at Northwestern myself and I have friends in grad school up there now. Its beautiful. My sister and husband live in San Diego and they won’t visit here in the months of October thru May – so it is a bit of a shock but it is a great school. I looked there for theatre.

Keep on Blogging and please look me up in the spring.

This is absolutely brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Zillows rise and subsequent fall is an amazing story. Their much hyped introduction was featured on different real estate sites and their viral “what is zillow?” pre-launch campaign got everybody talking. Now they are facing all of these challenges based on the fact that their service model leverages tax rolls and computer algorythms. In this instance I think political groups are trying to protect the status quo in the real estate industry and attempting to eliminte zillow as a threat to the traditional real estate model.

BN

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I get clients every week who either want to much for their home or want to pay to little all based of zhitty zillow zestimates. This false statistical data is often misleading and is never a good substitute for an experienced agent or appraiser.

I think zillow is a great tool. I have worked with it many times and would recommend it. I would always double check the subject property against comparable properties, the computer sometimes misses very crucial things when it comes to determining the exact true current market value. But still one of the best tools online.

[...] this love letter in my email inbox this week about a fun (I thought), flippant (certainly) article I wrote here a million years ago on the magical, mystical Zestimate: You know what, I am not amused by your [...]