Anyone ever used Zillow to sell a house?

[Benton]

(01-12-2016, 12:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So people who are shopping for houses go to Facebook?

I have known a few people who were looking for a house and none of them mentioned going to Facebook.

No, but it might show up for someone who is. That's the rough part about advertising — the majority of it is putting something out there and hoping it hits an intended target. Different forms in different media have different rates of success.

I work at a paper. For our size and our community size, it's pretty surprising but we get 10-20 calls a week for people looking for rental property. I own a rent house and when it's empty I run one classified ad and usually get 20-25 calls. In my area, there isn't any form of advertising you can get for that price where you'll get more than 20 customers off a single run. But that's where people go to look for it. On the flip-side, I sold a car two years ago. I ran a newspaper ad and it got two responses after a week. I posted it on a local classifieds web site (vciclassifieds.com) and had about a dozen phone calls the next day.

I'd suggest talking to some people in your area who've sold houses and see if they used any specific sites or media they used. Hell, every community has at least one free shopper you can take a line ad in.