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Advice to Housing Consumers From Non-Realtors: Some Useful Nuggets — and Some Misinformation

Real Estate “How-To” Articles Unlike the general public, I don’t read articles like “How to Stay on Top of Your Home Closing” (Angie’s List) to learn anything new (or, at least I hope I don’t). Rather, I read the articles to see how sound their advice to consumers is. On that score, the Angie’s List piece...
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Why Realtors Hate Zillow

(And You Should, Too) My job — and every other Realtor’s — would be a lot easier if Zillow simply didn’t exist. Notwithstanding its (inexplicable to me) popularity, information on Zillow is frequently wrong, dated — or both. Oh, and one more thing:  Zillow’s margin of error for calculating home values — the “hook” that...
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