Received a call today from House Values.  I think they are only in our pocket.  But I would like to hear from a agent with a success story.

I used them and they are in your pocket. The leads were cold or duplicates sent to other agents. They used my name to recruit other agents (  no referral fee) worst yet they are hard to cancel.  I had to close the account to get rid of them.

I have subscribed to HouseValues for the last 3 months and so far I had no good lead. Most of the referrals I receive do not include their phone number nor their address and frankly sometimes it is a fake e-mail address as well. I have signed up for one year but at this point I have no hope that I will ever receive a valid client from them. Ulli Rieckmann-Fechner REALTOR, SRES, e-PRO ulli4real@gmail.com 408.679.0333

I have to pipe in at this point, my partner and I have been HouseValues.com subscribers since 2000 or 2001 and have been EXTREMELY happy with the service.  Yes, it is expensive.  Yes, there will be some bum leads but our experience has been that there have been MUCH fewer “Bill Clintons” or other fake leads compared to ANY of the Internet buyer-lead services out there (and we have tried most of them).  These leads tend to give real information to you because they want something tangible in return, not just to browse listings.  It might be for a refinance or just curiosity and not an immediate sale but then you have their email addresses and I would rather email for follow-up than snail mail any day.   The seller leads do take patience and work.  We have had leads  turn into deals 1, 2, even 3 years later.  I do not have a current count of transactions we have gotten from HouseValues but our slowest years with them were around 15-18 transactions and our height was of course 2005 with over 40 closed deals just from HouseValues.  That being said I am in a very techno-savvy marketplace with most every consumer online and we are also in a populous area (DC suburb) that has seen tremendous growth the past few years.

Tan Tunador

Exit Realty Talbot and Company

ttunador@exitrealtytalbot.com

www.LoudounCountyHomeSales.com