Are Your Home Details Accurate?
August 25th, 2008 by Allison JordanAll of the property information on eppraisal.com comes from public records. As such, that information is not always accurate or up-to-date. That’s why eppraisal.com launched a new feature that allows homeowners to update the information displayed about their property.
When a homeowner edits details such as the number of bedrooms or bathrooms, that information is displayed along with the information in the public records. To update public records, homeowners must contact their local assessor or recorder office to correct this information. Once the local assessor approves the changes, eppraisal.com will automatically reflect the change. If you want to display the updated information before approval from the assessor, you can do so using our “user edit” function.
Search for your home value on eppraisal.com to review your home details.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:54 am
It’s a useful function to be able to edit home info to correct the public record. But it’s not useful to wait until the county’s records are updated before using the info for an appraisal.
For one thing, a homeowner won’t report a larger size than the public record, unless they just like paying higher taxes, since taxes are based on square footage. Yet your announcement encourages exactly that behavior in order to help you be more accurate, not the homeowner.
Your competitor, Zillow, allows homeowners to certify ownership and edit the same info. Zillow then uses the revisions to set a value, which I think is very accurate for my home. The public record shows the house several hundred feet smaller than my actual home.
Eppraisal’s value range is not useful at all. For homes around mine, a range of $175,000 is a joke. How does it aid anyone trying to set a selling price or calculating an offer? It’s such a broad range that it’s the opposite of useful.
Keep trying, you make it right someday. If you are able to get it right, the world will beat a path to your door.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am
The fact that the photo is targeting the WRONG house bothers me quite a bit. If you can’t identify the correct house my faith in your estimation of value is not very strong.