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Selling Our Soul to Zillow

When Zillow was first rolled out it was simply presented to the Realtors as another tool to expand our marketing. It's now become not only a burden but a detriment to Real Estate agents and the consumers who use the platform. Once introduced Zillow had the capability of using all of the listings to market on a global platform to make it more user friendly for the Buyers to find their future home. In the beginning it worked as it was promised and drove more traffic than any of the other "Real Estate" websites, in fact it was #1 in less than a few years with more traffic than the next two competitors combined!       In the next few years the company rolled out it's own CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) platform to help agents track leads that came from Zillow. For those of you not familiar with the agent side of Zillow, this is how it worked. If a potential Buyer clicked on a home they had an option of choosing to send a message to the "Listing Agent" or jus...
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So, you Want to buy a Foreclosure?

If only I had a dollar for every phone call I received from someone wanting a copy of the foreclosure list. As if it's some great secret scroll that we all keep locked in our office. Well, it's not! And buying one isn't much of a mystery either. Let's get two things straight, number one and most important to remember during this entire process is that the banks, auction companies and/or asset management companies who are pulling the strings do NOT care about your situation nor do they care about what we believe is the real value of the abandoned meth den that they've inherited. These banks never wanted this. They did not desire to foreclose a loan and then in turn become responsible for actual real estate property. They are in the business of lending money and not owning and managing property. And unfortunately they are terrible at the latter. Secondly, there's no list! It's not a secret! There's no OZ pulling the strings behind the curtain. It's sim...