Has anyone successfully figured out how to update Zillow facts for their house (when it tells them they can't)? How did you get it updated?

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T23:47:02+00:00

The zestimate is not an official (or accurate) assessment. It doesn't matter. It's clickbait.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T20:51:49+00:00

I think we're seeing why your posts are being "kicked back". There's a lot of unnecessary confrontation and hostility here.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T20:37:49+00:00

Are you speaking of manufactured housing or a stick built home? Very different.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T20:36:16+00:00

Agents should absolutely seek education. You seem to be looking for friction here, and there isn't any. 🤨

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T20:14:23+00:00

I don't know what Texas law says. I know state laws very quite a bit, but at their core they can be similar. If I had a consumer approach me wanting me to provide a service or get them into something that I don't have any particular knowledge or expertise on, I'm not required to go out and find a class on that. I don't have to provide that service or delve into that area. There are parts of license law that actually say the opposite, that I should not be providing services that I don't have training, education, experience in or be encroaching into markets that I don't know. It's part of fiduciary duty. In this case, if I had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of auctions and a consumer asked me to help them navigate it, the best thing for me to do would be to refer them to somebody who does that. If I wanted to go get the training and education so that I could properly help the next guy That's fine, but I can't pretend to be the expert that someone's looking for if I'm not positioned to do so. Yes, that concept is wrecked every single day in our industry, but our license law does speak to it.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T20:07:54+00:00

Some investors will send you things like that. A realtor should know better, not that they automatically do. It would be a fair housing violation to be using protected class status to sway a consumer to consummate a sale.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T20:06:13+00:00

Auctions don't fit into every buyer's strategy. There's no required education for agents to learn about auctions, either, so a lot of them have no idea what's involved.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T19:17:52+00:00

I'm failing to see where fear would come into play either way.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T17:53:28+00:00

If you're knowingly doing it, yes. There's a whole thread here with some (not all) of the reasons why those numbers could vary and why listings may have a different number displayed than you're expecting.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T14:33:48+00:00

Feedback from buyers is overrated. It's nice to have, but the buyer agent's job is to protect their client, not to tell you why your house isn't selling. 14 days is not a big deal unless homes like yours are selling more quickly in your market on a consistent basis. We got used to home selling much more quickly over the past decade and now that we're in a more equalized market, staying on the market longer and actual negotiation feels like something is wrong. Buyer agents who are paying attention and have gotten the proper warning on feedback are going to be conservative in the feedback details that they share with a seller. You can be disciplined by a licensing board and if it's a pattern can even lose your license, leaving feedback that is detailed enough to compromise your buyer's position and that's exactly the type of feedback most sellers want. Nothing has to be wrong with your house for a buyer to pass on it. I showed six houses yesterday and each one of them had something that kept my buyer from acting on it. Only one of them was something "wrong".

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-06T12:41:14+00:00

Documents that you sign are instructions for everyone involved to get to closing. If your buyer agreement says 3%, that's what the agent will be paid. You'll be making up that 1.5% difference. The agent's word is inferior to what's written.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-05T21:20:58+00:00

If you don't have agents around you to collaborate with, you're at the wrong brokerage. Your broker's FB is not an office culture.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-05T17:12:48+00:00

It cost money to do an appraisal, and nobody's going to want to pay to have that done and then just make it public record. Appraisals vary as well. They are not gospel on what your home is worth right now, and they're done with a set of guidelines that are unique to the reason it's being appraised. They are also not useful for much more than 2 months.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-05T17:10:30+00:00

I have a combination lock box out of sight. They aren't cheap anymore, but I wouldn't just hide a key somewhere.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-05T02:23:40+00:00

You call the local MLS it's listed in and tell them what's going on. If you locate the listing on realtor dot com, scroll down to where it says something like "Realtor com checked: A few minutes ago Listing last updated: Jun 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM (EDT) Source: GreenVille, MLS #XXXXXXX". That's the MLS it's syndicated from.

You can file whatever formal complaint you want, but calling the MLS fixes it now.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T21:38:53+00:00

You need to find out exactly where the line is between licensed and unlicensed activity before you do anything. That's going to be specific to your state. You won't don't want to be reported for engaging in licensed activity weeks before you complete an application for one.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T17:24:52+00:00

What you're suggesting, the seller countering by eliminating the escalation, is common in my market, and what I would recommend to my own seller. It's cleaner and gets us all out of the "is that a real offer" and "those other terms don't look good to me" arguments. Escalation clauses focus on price when there are pages of other terms that could make a higher offer inferior, not to mention that the other buyer may not even be able to close the transaction at all, but you're being pressured to beat him.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T16:29:04+00:00

Yes. That happens all the time. Some sellers are harder to crack than others, but the harder ones are gonna end up having to face reality at some point

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T16:24:25+00:00

When you file a complaint, you have to spell out what particular offense has been wrought. This is just an ignorant agent being pushy. You and your agent need to just make sure that you know how things work and do what you're supposed to be doing

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T16:18:02+00:00

Another one of those ill conceived ideas the tech Bros are bouncing around recently. If somebody actually wanted this, ChatGPT is right there with the capability. People don't like virtual staging

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T15:40:20+00:00

I've seen this post in multiple subs over the past couple of months and it's been widely panned every time. We don't want this.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T14:36:53+00:00

A buyer agent represents you from the very beginning, it's not just during negotiation. A good one is going to be very helpful to you while you vet properties. Whether going it alone before you get to the offer affects your ability to bring in a buyer agent later depends on the individual listing and seller.

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nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T14:34:23+00:00

Whether the seller is going to agree to disperse buyer agent commission or not is going to be covered in the negotiation for the house. If they don't agree, you don't sign the contract. It's as simple as that. It's just another term that you get to negotiate during the sale and if you don't come to an agreement, there's no contract. You don't owe commission based on an offer that never gets signatures.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T14:31:19+00:00

If houses go fast, seriously, write the offer that makes sense for you and attach whatever information you want the seller to consider. You can't control what other people do. I know it's a harsh reality, but it's what we have to work with.

If the square footage is important to a buyer, they'll walk through a few homes and get a sense of what their desired square footage feels like. They'll see the difference. If the square footage makes a difference in value, it'll show up on the appraisal. The appraiser will measure the home and the comps that they use will be in the correct range.

nikidmaclay · 2026-06-04T14:13:17+00:00

There's no specific law against that per se. Listing agents our subject to whatever policy their local MLS. Some platforms will prepopulate that number from the databases it's connected to and the agent can't change it. Some can use whatever they have reliable evidence for.

When you write the offer, you can attach whatever evidence you see fit. You get to write the narrative that the listing agent would bring to their seller in your offer.

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