Zillow and the prices they post

[MineralMan]

18. Zillow is a pretty poor price estimator.

But it's easy these days to look at listings in your area and do some comparables checks. Look at homes with about the same square footage and room counts. Find where most of them are, in terms of asking price. The closer you can come to what you have when looking, the better.

Ignore the highest priced similar homes and the lowest priced ones. Yours will be worth somewhere in the middle.

Also, keep your searching down to as small an area near you as you can.

That's how you find out what your place is worth, more or less. If you're ready to put it on the market, contact a real estate broker and get an evaluation. From them, you should get a range, based on what you're willing to do to improve value, and what the market is doing.

Zillow is useless if you're serious.