Zillow new fee structure etc

[Paul M.]

Zillow used to cost $9.99 to post a rental, I was cool with that, good idea to weed out spam listings that would hide mine.  Now it seems to be either free or you can pay 29.95 for a premier listing.   I did it for free got tons of replies.   What would premier listing have gotten me, has anyone done that?   

Also with Zillow, a large chunk of the replies were generic "so and so would like to see this property" I think there is a button they can push to generate this with little effort.   I generally only want to do a showing to someone who writes me a personalized note so I know I'm not wasting my time, that they actually read the posting and matched up against their needs.   With craigslist I tend to get more actual emails from prospective tenants.   Just wondering what others' insights are on this.

Finally on the subject of that initial prospective tenant message I have been thinking about how buyer's letters that accompany offers on homes being sold are now discouraged/frowned upon (due to fair housing concerns) at least in my woke region and are those concerns coming for rentals too?   Where I will not be allowed any information whatsoever on the prospective renter they will do showing then it will turn out they are looking for a different start month or something.   I don't care at all any of the protected class characteristics of a tenant, I only want to gauge will they like the place can they afford it, so I can do fewer showings.