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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Don’t Trust Zillow For Your Home Valuation



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Why can’t you trust Zillow? Not to just pick on Zillow, but also Trulia, or Realtor.com, or any automated valuation websites. The reality is, they just can’t come up with an accurate price of your house without physically seeing it. We’ve seen them off by as much as 30% or more. There are lots of reasons why it just doesn’t work.


For example, it can’t account for where you are in the neighborhood. Are you on a main street, or a cut-through street? Or are you in the back of a cul-de-sac? That makes a difference. So does how much you’ve remodeled or updated, or haven’t updated. Automated sites can’t tell you that. More importantly, they don’t know what the most sought-after school districts are in Charlotte. There are big disparities between some of them. You want to make sure you’re in a highly sought-after school district if that’s something that is important to you.

So, how do you get around this? It’s pretty simple - just get a real estate professional to get out there and take a look. We can do that, and so can other people. The other thing you can get when someone comes out is advice on what to do and what not to do to get the most for your money itself. Don’t do more than you need to.

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