Zillow acquired Showing Time and that unleashed large amounts of angst. 

It seems theres much ado about something.  Once again.  

Zillow has been good to me in the past but at great expense.  Now I've weaned myself away from them, have built my own pipeline.  The real estate market is just booming, inventory is low here, I just don't even think about them. 

Redfin in business since 2004.

Zillow in business since 2006.

Negligible market share as far as their brokerage & buy programs are concerned.

Fear God, not Zillow.

Bob,

A great distraction for some, and there is always something!  A

Just this week? Over the last few they've been in the news all the time. It's the ShowingTime thing I believe.

RM HQ is going to state their position to us all on Monday. We moved away from DotLoop for this reason a few years ago.

Don't know. The showing time deal isn't final yet. My impression is most agents that like it will continue to use it.

Read Zig Ziglar ‘s
“ How do you cook a Frog”

Bob please don't take this the wrong way but Z is not your friend, now they are officially your competition they got a broker's license and if you are paying them to post your listings you are a fool by paying the competition...just sayin

I got nothing Bob Crane 

No freak out here.  

Zillow is purchasing Showingtime. Many agents populate Showingtime with records of client data. Zillow is now a brokerage. So now a competing brokerage has just purchased your client data.

I know some did go a bit over the top. I haven't paid attention to zillow from the start and that is not my source of business.  I do think our MLs will be looking into other scheduling programs.  Which is probably a wise idea.

Please supply more data regarding FREAK OUT.
Some folks do not like doing business with Zdevil.

Others don't like having there choices taken away without their input.
And some will FREAK OUT by your judgemental 'they don't preform at a high level' comment.
There is lots of FREAKING OUT going on but what you actually are referring to is unclear.
'Zdevil can not touch you' if they are embedded in your MLS is a nauive statement.

Who invited Zillow to the party? I didn't see them in the exam room either

I believe it's over showing time and the fact that zillow the company can see what listings are being shown when and somehow give zillow the brokerage an advantage.  I see no need to freak our.

Zillow is the elephant in the room and their push to make changes in the RE industry moves forward at greater speed

I spent some time with our local MLS director recently to see what kind of information showing time collects.  It was amazing how detailed and useful it could be. Showing time saves my a bunch of time right now.  A goal, which is getting harder and harder to do today, is to have and keep  more control over all aspects of my business. Not sure it is necessary or will be easy to take that control away from showing time but it is certainly something that needs to be investigated.

I do my thing and they do their thing. So they can't touch this!

I have just been focusing on what I need to do business-wise, and issues in my personal life. I have no time to worry too much about Z.

The concern about their purchase of showing time is no different than Gary Keller's concern over their purchase of DotLoop.  Having access to client information and what zillow's end goals seem to be.

I have been so busy selling real estate this week, I have barely had time to breathe.

So, nope, I'm not in the Z-bashing mode this week, Bob!

Zillow on my pillow...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ it was all a dream. 😴