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How real estate agents can benefit from "Make Me Move" listings on Zillow

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Posted by Spencer Rascoff on 05/11/2009 04:48 PM

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36 Comments on How real estate agents can benefit from "Make Me Move" listings on Zillow

MAY

This is a good idea Zillow has, it could make our job alot easier when someone wants to llive in a particular area.

MAY

Yeah, what a great idea and probably as good a cold call as FSBO and expired. Thanks for the great idea. Gina

MAY

Interesting Idea. Thanks Joe

It i s an interesting way to find FSBO. Some of them are on the market already.

Grace Keng silicon valley realtor www.gracekeng.com

Nice insight. I'm going to see how it is doing in picking up some of the rural ones in Teller and Park county Colorado.

That's something new.

but of course!!!

....what a great Idea....to bad I did not think of it.

Bettina

Thank you, Spencer. I'm going to explore this and play with this right now.

Spencer,

Just explored. Now I know what happened to all the potential sellers who decided NOT to list with me at fair market value. But it is a VERY interesting concept...

Update - In a response below, Spencer mentions "weirdest coincidence of timing I've seen in a while." They must be going around...

I just got my first ever call from Zillow to sell me advertising.

When Zillow comes to our town, I'll try this out!

This is a great idea! I did not realize this was on zillow and will investigate further on the site. Thanks for the great simple explanation Spencer.

Hmmm. I'll check this out maybe.

Patricia Aulson/Portsmouth NH Real Estate

Great tip. They are raising their hands but no one is calling on them. Thanks!

Thanks everyone

And check this out -- in the weirdest coincidence of timing I've seen in a while, my sister-in-law in San Diego got an offer on her home's Make Me Move last night!

I've actually got a client who uses the Make Me Move feature. It is a great way to meet sellers and seller prospects as well as hook up buyer prospects with oftentimes great properties with willing sellers. Makes for quicker deals!

~Renae

Good idea Spencer - I didn't think of this. Thanks!

Thanks, Spencer! Your insights are very helpful.

WOW That is really cool! I'll let you know how it works out ! And if nothing else it got me to stop what I was doing on click over to Zillow-well done!

This is a great idea. I'm heading over to Zillow right now to browse through my neighborhoods.

Thanks Spence, Great idea and congratulations to your sister.

Interesting... This may prove to be a win/win. I'll check it out.

I noticed that you only focused on how it could help buyer agents. Hmmm. It is almost a surefire way to locate FSBO's who just might be amenable to working with a listing agent after futile months of trying to sell on their own.

William,

You're definitely right. Prospecting for listings among MMMs and FSBOs would probably be fruitful. The reason I didn't emphasize that though is that most MMM owners will react negatively to a ping from an agent looking to get the listing. FSBOers less so, but they too are prickly about listing agents soliciting them. So I think the better route is for buyers agents to pursue MMMs for their buyers.

Spencer, I appreciate the post, but sometimes access the internet via means that does not readily deal with vidoes so could not watch. A short text post to accompany it would have benefitted me more.

This is great information. Although I am not a Realtor so I can't use it I have shared it with my Realtor friends on facebook. Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful. Great information. Lots of information and thanks fo rsharing.

Umm...Am I missing something? The blog post is empty except for the title?

Christianne - it must be an issue with your browser; there is a youtube video embedded in the post. Here's the link if you want to watch it on YouTube directly.

Interesting - thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. All the best.

Didn't realize this was a part of Zillow but I too am passing it on to my fellow Realtors.

Realtors can't afford to ignore Zillow any more.

I appreciate the high quality video tutorial...it was very helpful seeing and getting a good naration from you Spencer. I also agree with you that this tool is a great way to position yourself as a forward thinking agent...not everyone will use this or know about this trick so you could get your buyers into some great listings that nobody else has. Picture it as the pocket listing of 2009 and beyond.

The video was certainly insightful, and I appreciate the specific website offering additional ideas and tips to fully utilize Zillow's benefits.

Definitely an interesting new approach! Someone mentioned above that we could track FSBOs, so that really caught my eye. I'm zooming over to zillow to check it out!