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October 25, 2007 at 10:42 AM #10725October 25, 2007 at 10:57 AM #91725
XBoxBoy
ParticipantGotta love it, there’s zillow saying that this house is worth $1,146,173. What an incredibly worthless POS zillow is.
October 25, 2007 at 10:57 AM #91750XBoxBoy
ParticipantGotta love it, there’s zillow saying that this house is worth $1,146,173. What an incredibly worthless POS zillow is.
October 25, 2007 at 10:57 AM #91763XBoxBoy
ParticipantGotta love it, there’s zillow saying that this house is worth $1,146,173. What an incredibly worthless POS zillow is.
October 25, 2007 at 12:45 PM #91752Raybyrnes
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How do you figure Zillow to be worthless? First off it is free. Second, no one is saying the the zestimates are useful. The useful data is the comps in the area, the tax information years of purchase etc. Additionally as transactional data gets added to zillow it will continue to get more accurate.
Zillow is sort of like Aybo the robotic dog. If you think you are going to use it to replace a real dog you are an idiot. If on the other hand you simply use it as a novelity or entertainment piece then you get what it represents.
October 25, 2007 at 12:45 PM #91776Raybyrnes
ParticipantXBoxBoy
How do you figure Zillow to be worthless? First off it is free. Second, no one is saying the the zestimates are useful. The useful data is the comps in the area, the tax information years of purchase etc. Additionally as transactional data gets added to zillow it will continue to get more accurate.
Zillow is sort of like Aybo the robotic dog. If you think you are going to use it to replace a real dog you are an idiot. If on the other hand you simply use it as a novelity or entertainment piece then you get what it represents.
October 25, 2007 at 12:45 PM #91790Raybyrnes
ParticipantXBoxBoy
How do you figure Zillow to be worthless? First off it is free. Second, no one is saying the the zestimates are useful. The useful data is the comps in the area, the tax information years of purchase etc. Additionally as transactional data gets added to zillow it will continue to get more accurate.
Zillow is sort of like Aybo the robotic dog. If you think you are going to use it to replace a real dog you are an idiot. If on the other hand you simply use it as a novelity or entertainment piece then you get what it represents.
October 25, 2007 at 1:03 PM #91755POZ
ParticipantIt’s decietful, the robotic dog in your analogy does not “pretend” to be real or the least bit useful it is for entertaining purposes only. Zillow purposely (because they are financed by the housing industry) inflate the zestimate models to the high side. The models it uses for calculating the home “value” were designed during the upturn they do not account for lossess. Zillow is a joke, use with caution.
October 25, 2007 at 1:03 PM #91779POZ
ParticipantIt’s decietful, the robotic dog in your analogy does not “pretend” to be real or the least bit useful it is for entertaining purposes only. Zillow purposely (because they are financed by the housing industry) inflate the zestimate models to the high side. The models it uses for calculating the home “value” were designed during the upturn they do not account for lossess. Zillow is a joke, use with caution.
October 25, 2007 at 1:03 PM #91793POZ
ParticipantIt’s decietful, the robotic dog in your analogy does not “pretend” to be real or the least bit useful it is for entertaining purposes only. Zillow purposely (because they are financed by the housing industry) inflate the zestimate models to the high side. The models it uses for calculating the home “value” were designed during the upturn they do not account for lossess. Zillow is a joke, use with caution.
October 25, 2007 at 1:25 PM #91767XBoxBoy
ParticipantRaybyrnes, I meant that Zillow was worthless, as an expression, not an actual accounting of the cost versus value. Zillow tries to promote itself as a tool to help you with real estate transactions, and as such I see no value. Now Aybo the robotic dog, I can see as having real value since I love dogs but my wife is allergic to them. Admittedly, not as wonderful as a real dog, but better than nothing. Which I guess makes me an idiot by your standards. Oh well, I’ve been called worse.
October 25, 2007 at 1:25 PM #91805XBoxBoy
ParticipantRaybyrnes, I meant that Zillow was worthless, as an expression, not an actual accounting of the cost versus value. Zillow tries to promote itself as a tool to help you with real estate transactions, and as such I see no value. Now Aybo the robotic dog, I can see as having real value since I love dogs but my wife is allergic to them. Admittedly, not as wonderful as a real dog, but better than nothing. Which I guess makes me an idiot by your standards. Oh well, I’ve been called worse.
October 25, 2007 at 1:25 PM #91792XBoxBoy
ParticipantRaybyrnes, I meant that Zillow was worthless, as an expression, not an actual accounting of the cost versus value. Zillow tries to promote itself as a tool to help you with real estate transactions, and as such I see no value. Now Aybo the robotic dog, I can see as having real value since I love dogs but my wife is allergic to them. Admittedly, not as wonderful as a real dog, but better than nothing. Which I guess makes me an idiot by your standards. Oh well, I’ve been called worse.
October 25, 2007 at 1:27 PM #91801CBad
ParticipantZillow is definitely not always high. Houses that haven’t sold for a long, long time are often undervalued on zillow. You take two houses in a neighborhood that are identical, one sold recently, the other hasn’t sold in 30 years and they’ll be very different zestimates.
October 25, 2007 at 1:27 PM #91814CBad
ParticipantZillow is definitely not always high. Houses that haven’t sold for a long, long time are often undervalued on zillow. You take two houses in a neighborhood that are identical, one sold recently, the other hasn’t sold in 30 years and they’ll be very different zestimates.
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