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Improve your home value on Zillow
When you sign up for a dating website, even if you're a fairly attractive individual, you lie. Or at least embellish a little bit. Make yourself look just a little better than you are, in the hopes that someone will be impressed enough to take a shot on you and will be so impressed by the actual you that they won't even notice the little fibs you might have told. Turns out you can do the same thing with your house.
Zillow.com, kind of like a hot or not for houses, tries to determine the value of houses by using public records for certain areas. It also allows homeowners to add certain information about their houses that may not be available in public records. Such as upgrades or improvements you may have made, like say, renovating your kitchen, or installing a solid gold chimney. Which, while aesthetically pleasing, may not be a terribly functional apparatus. Although it stands to reason that if you advertise the fact that if you say you have a solid gold fireplace, people will probably come to see. Then they'll be disappointed, but it'll at least get them in the door. Then you can rob them. Not a bad plan, actually. Anyway, learn more about it here.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bryan Price said 12:16PM on 5-11-2007
How about how to actually get it to know that there is an actual house at your street address?
They only list half the houses in my neighborhood.
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Mirko said 10:02AM on 5-19-2007
Well, if you say that you have solid gold fireplace, you will get people to your door, and when they see the scam, someone will be very pissed off. anyway as it is stated they will at least come and if you have some marketing skills something will happen.
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louis cammarosano said 4:38PM on 6-07-2007
HomeGain also has an instant homevaluation tool.
You can try it at http://www.homegain.com
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