Yes! I know that your home is not listed at the “correct” market value in Zillow but I have been a big fan of this website since they came out – one reason is the price – it is FREE. Zillow lets you type in an address and it will give you "comps" or comparable SOLD price of the home itself and the surrounding streets. For quick and dirty check when you are sifting and sorting through a foreclosure list in Michigan (which keep getting bigger every day) Zillow is almost perfect and without any serious competition.

But Zillow continues to add features that will make the lives of real estate investors in Michigan easy. Case in point what they just came out with yestereday – asking homeowners who are NOT in the market to sell yet to put up a price and see if anybody bites…

Here are the details:

Home listing site Zillow is making it possible to shop for homes that are not necessarily for sale with their new Make Me Move function, which launches on Thursday. Home owners who may have no intention of moving, but certainly would for the right price, can list information about their homes on Make Me Move so that gutsy buyers can try to make a deal.

“What number would it take for you to call the movers and hand over your keys?” said Lloyd Frink, Zillow’s co-founder and president, in a release about the new function. “Make Me Move is our twist on the traditional ‘For Sale’ sign.”

A homeowner can post a Make Me Move price without exposing any personal information. Zillow then enables interested buyers to contact the owner through an email “anonymizer.” The service is free.
Free is the magic word at Zillow lately because the company also announced that it will provide free listings for all home owners and realtors. Listings can include photos, and realtors can also create Web sites for each listing.