All Forum Posts by: John Suralik

Welcome to BP. Let me know if I can help. 

@Ryan Dossey I agree. Craigslist has had the same interface forever. Zillow, Hotpads, Trulia, and the others are making the advertising that property management companies used to do obsolete as well. 

Yoochul C. I'm not sure. How do you use Salesforce and is it effective? How much does it cost?

Arpad Racz I'm seeing the same thing. I'm getting a lot of military applicants from Zillow who are relocating here.

Shefali Raina That's interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Max Tanenbaum Yes it is free. I think that is what stopped me from trying Zillow and the others is that I thought it charged to list rentals, and I wasn't sure if you had to be a broker to list.

Jake Thomas It would be interesting to see if the same house would get just as much traffic from Zillow as Craigslist if it was even listed for 5% more. I know the market drives rents, but Zillow looks more professional.

Jassem A. I've already noticed that the emails that I am getting from Zillow seem to be better written and the leads from Zillow are more military and professionals. I don't know why it took me so long to add Zillow to advertising strategy.

Tzvi Ausubel Yeah, really like how Zillow shows the per square foot price of rentals. I checked other houses in the area and was able to raise the rent for the house by 10% to stay in line with the other remodeled rentals in the area.

Last night, I posted one of my houses that is coming up for rent on Craigslist and Zillow. I never posted on Zillow before, but figured that I should get with the times and try it out. Zillow has an option to automatically post on Hotpads and Trulia, which I did. So far Zillow is crushing Craigslist 5 to 1 in tenant leads. And Hotpads is in second with 3 to 1. I just thought I'd share. Are you seeing the same numbers in finding tenant leads in your areas?