{"id":337856,"date":"2010-02-18T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/?p=17847"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:03:26","slug":"my-estimate-my-koi-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337856","title":{"rendered":"My Estimate, My Koi Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frustration with an unresponsive Zestimate\u00ae home value<\/a> is one of the most hotly debated complaints among Zillow users. You, the homeowner, have spent months and thousands of dollars updating your home. You’ve added landscaping, a fern-filled fishy paradise, and even a pool — but your Zestimate’s still flat. Why won’t Zillow update your Zestimate to reflect all your improvements? Why doesn’t Zillow care? These fish are tropical!<\/p>\n

The critics are on to something. Zillow’s Zestimate is a great place to start when investigating the value of a property. But Zillow relies on homeowners themselves to update their home facts<\/a>. General updates to the home facts, such as square footage changes, can affect the Zestimate. But if a homeowner has done grand renovations, or if they feel their property page still isn’t reflecting the value they feel it should, we steer them towards an extremely powerful Zillow tool: My Estimator<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The “My Estimator” tool, aka the Homeowner’s Estimate tool, is an unbelievably cool way to show the world what your home is worth with all the improvements you’ve made. If your home has a Zestimate, then you can create your own estimate. To get started:<\/p>\n

1. Log in to Zillow<\/p>\n

2. Go to your home’s actual home details page. Make sure you’ve claimed your home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. Click the My Estimate: [Create]<\/strong> button underneath your Zestimate at the top of the page, and begin!<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a><\/p>\n

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Your Estimate starts with a baseline value<\/em> of your Zestimate, and then lets you input all the improvements you’ve made. Then, you can add in comps<\/a>, even additional comments. This is especially great for sellers, because it can help explain the difference between the Zestimate and the for-sale price. It’s all fairly intuitive and if you need additional help, here’s another link to the explanatory video.<\/a> Just don’t forget to make your homeowner’s estimate public, so people can see your home’s value with all your updates.<\/p>\n

Now visitors to your property on Zillow will get the whole story — Zillow’s Zestimate, and your homeowner’s estimate, too. Try it today.<\/p>\n

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Frustration with an unresponsive Zestimate\u00ae home value is one of the most hotly debated complaints among Zillow users. You, the homeowner, have spent months and thousands of dollars updating your home. You’ve added landscaping, a fern-filled fishy paradise, and even a pool — but your Zestimate’s still flat. Why won’t Zillow update your Zestimate to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}