[jjdees]

For any of you thinking of putting your home on the market by owner, beware of Zillow. They will do an on line search in your area and find recent sales. They will then use those sales to establish a Zillow value for your home. In my case,even though we listed with a realtor, I put the listing on Zillow. Zillow then gathered comps online using one sale at 80,000, 2 others at 120,000 and several in the 200,000 range to establish the value of our home. It was way way below what it cost to build 9 years ago. I tried to get them to correct it and to use valid comps but they ignored all requests. I finally wrote to the CEO and he also ignored the request. I then tried to delete the home and they won't allow you to do that. So the end result was they showed my place being grossly overpriced based on faulty data and refused to address the situation. I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.