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Six,
It’s Friday, let’s sweep! This week, two tools for your toolbox + a reminder of the New Cell Phone Law (this Sunday!!!) + Amazon in the news + preparing for another roadshow at your office meetings. Let’s do this, let’s sweep…
Official Property Value Notices
I received mine in the mail. You know, that roughly 5.5″x4.5″ white and black notecard from the King County Assessor’s office that arrives annually in your mailbox (electronically for some of you) – breaking down what your property taxes will be the following year. Each year this notecard is a reminder for me to share a resource with you so that in turn it can be a tool in communicating with your people! Why not be the resource when people too receive their Official Property Value Notice in their mailbox?! Be a resource. Let me help – for answers to Common Questions + How Assessments Work + How to Appeal and more – a great resource to share…Tool: click here.
A note on Zillow – specifically to your listings
Tool: strategicsupport@zillow.com
Another resource we’ve drummed up that I’d like to share with each of you this week. First, always check your listings on Zillow. If the price, status or anything else is incorrect on Zillow – send an email immediately to strategicsupport@zillow.com. We’ve had success with this tool. And as a continued reminder, Zillow is not a Brokerage. Their data is not 100% accurate being that they do not have direct access to MLS data – instead they depend 100% on us and brokerages syndicating to them.
In the news | Amazon?
This was “news” was actually last week news yet worth sharing – at least for banter + awareness. Taken verbatim from one of our managers, “I just found a new definition for of one of my favorite words, “monetize,” in this article. And I quote: “Amazon is famous for tinkering with business plans to squeeze profit out of every field of human activity.”
Yes, Amazon has changed how my family lives, no doubt – convenience in all areas. Certainly these two articles gives me pause and provides us plenty of water cooler chatter. A Seattle Times article and a Geek Wire article on Amazon and a whiff of their interest in monetizing what we do. We shall see.
Amazon Heading into Real Estate? Fake news, source says
Zillow shares slump as Amazon webpage hints at expansion into real estate referrals
That’s a wrap from me this week – onward to preparing a weekend of celebrating our guy who has a birthday this weekend. We’ve been calling Shale “sticks” all week as he rounds the corner on to 11 years old…
And oh – Ps, another office meeting roadshow being created for Fall. The Tune Up team + I will be making our rounds to each of your office meetings. Until then – keep soaking up summer + navigating our local market and lean on us when you need support. Here to help, just ask – the ultimate goal. By the way, plenty of “at bats” left in 2017 – keep on swinging! We’ll turn our attention to finishing strong, together.
Laura Smith, General Manager | Windermere Real Estate Co.
Ballard + Eastlake + Madison Park + Northgate + Sand Point + Wedgwood
