All Forum Posts by: Huiping S.

I emailed Zillow about this issue but have not received a response yet. I also tried calling their support line for listings, but no one answered.

To investigate further, I re-listed the property with identical information but without paying for the premium $29.99 option. Surprisingly, the new listing now appears correctly in the search results. This makes me wonder if paying the $29.99 fee might be causing some kind of issue with Zillow’s system.

Will update if Zillow can response me.

I listed a rental property on Zillow and paid for premium exposure to increase visibility. While I understand this may not be the best time for high demand, the lack of inquiries has been unusually low—something I’ve never experienced before.

When I searched for similar rentals in the area, I discovered that my listing does not show up properly. Instead, it is grouped under another address in the same community, which happens to have the lowest price. It’s similar to how apartment listings are grouped by bedroom count and price. However, I’ve never seen single-family home listings on Zillow presented this way. But some properties of same community is not under this chain and can be seen as  single listings.

If I don't scroll past the lowest-priced SFR listing in that chain, I can't even find mine. This is despite there being other similar single-family home listings in the area that are not grouped in this way.

I contacted Zillow about this issue, especially since when I search for my specific listing directly and click on the public view, it shows outdated information (e.g., old history) rather than listing it as available for rent.

What is going on with Zillow’s listing display? This is the first time I’ve had such few inquiries, and my research suggests Zillow might be selectively prioritizing certain properties, like the lowest-priced ones. Why is this happening? 

Thanks.

Thank you so much @Ashish Acharya to share your valuable knowledge!

Thanks to share valuable information!

Emailed CPA and no response. Investors here are much more knowledgeable and helpful than the CPA we hired. 

Thanks Zachary Jensen!

People are so emotional and just throw things away. There are people no mortgage and no any insurance neither.

Lots families were flooded from Hurricane Helene. The flood insurance will cover limited, structure may or may not the contents. Lots people's car, appliances were died. The loss is very big for those family. I drove through some community and like a after war field. 

How those people should be prepared to report loss on tax return? How detail to keep the loss?

Hope tax professionals or experienced people can give some suggestion.

Thanks!

We setup LLC for SDIRA. The LLC has EIN but not the SDIRA. One LLC of SDIRA has three parts: HSA, Ruth, IRA. LLC always has EIN but not the individual part of SDIRA.

The rentals of those LLCs run very well. But the headache: CPA said need to file tax of the SDIRA ; Lawyer who helped to setup LLC said you need not to file tax when you didn't get cash from SDIRA.

Do we need to file tax for SDIRA or not?

Thanks for your sharing!

@Michael Haynes. I know you are very critical but I take your comments. I agree that I paid too much and spend stupidly for this quality although I paid nothing to fix during warranty!! Just made up my mind to dump the new Trane from this experience but very confused to choose which one. 

One SFR of us has a Trane which is 21 years old and the AC maintenance report shows it is in very good shape. The new Trane is junk or I got a junk from a junk dealer! I did all the research but got this outcome.

Ok, Carrier! One brand new SFR with brand new Carrie and air handler's noise level reached 90db.

Brand new Lennox with one SFR replaced leaking coil twice in 3ed and 4th year.

Few Goodman, already there or new. All run well and cheapest price.

Not just AC, appliances of current are easier to break. I think not only me but everyone will experience poor quality for certain time, like the Boeing airplane.

Finally the future few bookings all be cancelled by guests(mainly returning guests).

We will finish few more months fully booked service and then switch to long-term.

We manage and run long-term much longer than short-term. CPA's analysis report helped to make this decision: ROI of this short-term is the lowest among all properties. The long-term rental price can cover loan and related cost when we purchased it 8 years ago.

AirBNB cancelled first family very easily; second one asked host lots questions; third one .... Hope AirBNB will not so obviously treat different people different on cancellation, especially race is one fact!

AirBNB emailed our guests information like this: please ask your host to cancel the reservation when they will not host you.... Our account be frozen by AirBNB.

Learned what is AirBNB now!