Zillow openly explains this at https://www.zillow.com/zestimate/ and publishes their median error rates and other stats for some major metro areas at https://www.zillow.com/zestimate/#acc.The good news is, it's relatively easy to validate how accurate it is for your market:Have your realtor pull 50 or 100 active and sold homes in the market/neighborhood you want to analyze.Compare actual asking and sold prices to the Zestimate for each one, put them in a spreadsheet, and develop some averages. 

I just got my Agent's Exam out of the way.I wanted to see if there are any good Blogs or websites that has great information on the Real Estate Industry in general.For instance, Iman News seems to have a lot of interesting articles.

That's great news I would love to have coffee send me a pm anytime

When I asked him why, he said he figured once I saw him on the news I would have cancelled him.

Just a little worried with all the negative news about identity theft. 

Create a neighborhood website and post regularly news items that affect the neighbourhood. 

@Benjamin E.Sorry but I don't have any good news for you.

@Austin Davis I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but whoever told you that “if you have a deal raising the money is no issue” has given you some very bad advice.Raising money from outside investors is always difficult, even if you have a deal, and even if you have a good deal (or even a great one).

Definitely check out those areas, or even Newport News/Hampton Roads have a lot of great deals!   

The good news is buy and hold is very forgiving on numbers.