Tonight I'm Going to Copy Roger Mucci

Debbie, good to hear things are picking up there. Sorry to hear about your Zillowphile client.

Debbie, I am sure your going to have a great spring from your current activity, hope your client gains the needed wisdom to break away from the Zillow god or is it "god-zillow"?

Debbie, have you showed them the statistics page on Zillow's own site? They don't have it on the site itself, but if you go into the downloadable form, Delta County is ranked 1 star with no statistics. You could use something like Eagle county as a comparison. Here is my script:

Go to the Zestimate page located HERE and allow the seller to look at the numbers. If you want to break it up by county, download the Excel spreadsheet here: 

"Look, Zillow tries to be honest about how well they do on their Zestimates. They rate their accuracy on a 1-4 scale, 1 being the worst, and 4 being the best. You can see that their accuracy in Delta County is rated as a 1, or the worst accuracy. They don't provide actual statistics based on areas rated as a 1, so lets compare it to another area that does have statistics. Let's look at Eagle county. Their rating is a 2, so they are MORE accurate in Eagle than they are in Delta. In Eagle County, according to Zillow's statistics, only 23.9% of homes will actually sell within 5% of the  Zestimate price. Only 43.7%, still less than half of the homes, will sell within 10% of the Zestimate. What is even scarier is that nearly 30% of homes will sell for 20% or MORE off of the Zestimate value. That means if you trust the Zestimate, 3 out of 10 homes will be priced more than 20% away.

Now, Mr. Seller, the Zestimate on your home says $250,000, correct? By Zillow's own statistics, you have a 3 in 10 chance of that being off by more than $50,000, and only a 2 in 10 chance that the Zestimate will be accurate within 5%, or within 12,500. 

Then, as he starts to act like he understand, you tell him: These are not numbers I pulled out of thin air. These are numbers straight off of the Zillow website, posted there by THEM. And I also want you to remember that the numbers we just went over? Those were numbers for Eagle County. Remember, that Delta county is even farther off than those numbers. 

So nice to see that you had "nothing" to say, but you said it so well.  You get the concept, I'm impressed.  Thanks for the shout out, but it truly wasn't necessary.  Someone told me there was a show called Seinfeld that was about "nothing", so it's not an origianl idea.  ;~)  Well done my friend, well done.

Well, you certainly can write an interesting blog when you have nothing to say.  Maybe that is the best way to create interesting content.

Have a very special Valentine's Day!

Debbie, regardless of what you write about, I will read it.  You had quite a bit to say about nothing.  And, I like the fact that we can see your face now on the roster.

And, on reaching your new level, 

 

Congratulations!

Hello Debbie ~ Just came over after reading Don's blog about your 400,000 AR point achievement!

Congratulations!

Have a wonderful day!

 

I too like blogs with pictures,I just haven't mastered it yet or had the time too.

Debbie, I knew you would get there this week!  I am so proud of you!

 

Congratulations!

Debbie-all this activity will turn into good business real soon. Congratulations on the big 400k!

Hi Debbie - Don Sabinske's post brought me here today -- congratulations on reaching another milestone.   The homage to Roger Mucci and his Seinfeldian take on the world is always a good path.   Like Roger, your post on the "nothingness" is full of lots of activity, thoughts, insights and a nice photo -- that's quite the view from your front yard -- very nice.   

Have a great day! 

Debbie:  I'm sent here via Don Sabinske's post ... one of my favorite AR members and bloggers.  And what do I find?  You ... and you writing about another of my favorites.  Talk about small world ... and great finds on AR!  Hope to see more of you in the future and look forward to sharing ...

Gene

Debbie -- I am also here from Don't post about your reaching another milestone at Active Rain.

That is a lot about nothing for sure Debbie, I suppose you did learn from the master LOL I enjoyed the post