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To: altair19 who wrote (50164)	2/9/2006 8:28:16 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 104216

You had much better luck than me. I entered a dozen addresses that I know through out the country and I continued to get a very low tax accessed value along with this message: "County transactional data for this home is insufficient so we cannot calculate a Zestimate." Zestimate smestimate. They shouldn't bother going live and advertizing what a great service they have until it is at least 90% functional. Yesterday I couldn't even get on. They have a lot of work to do... -Clapper P.S. Minus 22 lbs. Consistently burning 500-600 cals every morning on my friend the tread mill. The calories and fat have surrendered and are jumping ship! They don't stand a chance. Oooh friggin rah!

To: altair19 who wrote (50164)	2/9/2006 1:23:49 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104216

a19- I was impressed at how accurate the average prices were. If you were moving to a new part of the country and didn't know much about it, this would certainly leverage your research and avoid having to listen to an agent drone on and on. zillow is a killer app... but it's full of crap (for new mexico real estate anyways) it's showing values that are 50% higher than today's listed prices. if you want to buy my house at zillow's price today, i'll give you $50,000 off and we'll both come out $50,000 ahead. <g> i checked some asking prices for some houses on the MLS... plugged those exact houses into zillow and found out that i can make millions of dollars buying and selling houses today by buying them at full asking price and selling them at a hefty discount off of zillow's prices. i've been waiting for an opportunity like this to come along ever since the stock market stalled. <g> -polvy

To: altair19 who wrote (50164)	2/9/2006 3:53:58 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 104216

<<...The application itself is very intuitive - I liked it...>> That's some good feedback...A friend of mine is Zillow's Chief Technology Officer...He was one of the original employees at Expedia and worked at Microsoft in the boom period...David is usually involved with a company when it's about ready to take off...Here's some background on him... zillow.com zillow.com <<...David Beitel is the Chief Technology Officer of Zillow.com. One of the initial members of the Expedia team, David held many leadership roles in product development during his 10-year tenure there. He began as a Software Design Engineer in 1994, and left Expedia as CTO in 2005. Before the Expedia years, David worked at Microsoft in the handheld computing group. David holds Bachelor of Science and Masters of Engineering degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University...>> -s2@It'sACompanyThatHasAttractedALotOfTopTalent.com