What follows is the true story of the $203,000 mansion and what not to do while shopping for a home online in Myrtle beach.
So I’m working with a couple, I’m gonna name them, Rob and Linda, the names and faces have been changed to protect privacy. So we’re just gonna call ’em Rob and Linda, Rob and Linda text me, and they are super excited about this home that they found online. They went to a certain website that rhymes with pillow, but starts with a different letter.
Yeah. Them. So anyway, this house has listed on pillow for $203,000 and they send me some of the pictures of it. Here are the actual pictures that they sent me. I’d be excited too. I mean, look at those pictures. Oh my God. So I, anyway, there’s no street number associated with this. Why the website is trying to get Linda and Rob, but Linda to get in contact with them. We’ll get to that point later. So anyway, there’s no street address associated with this wild and amazing deal that they found online. So I start digging in turns out there’s only like 14, 16 houses that are actually on this street, which I have blanked out for privacy reasons for the person that owns the house. So I thought I was gonna have to drive down there, but finally, I was able to use some of my Google-Fu and figure out which home it was. Here are the actual pictures of that home. As you can see, they got reason to be excited. Do you think this is a $203,000 house guys?
No, no, no!!!
So at that point, what I do is I pop open my MLS and I start cross referencing to try to find the home for sale. And I’m thinking the whole time, there is no way that this house sells for $203,000. You know what I was right? Not only is there no way that that house would sell for $203,000, there’s no way that house would sell. It wasn’t even for sale. And it even been for sale for a year and a half at that point. And when it did sell, it sold for 1.7 million us dollars.
So I break the news to Linda that this house is not only not $203,000. It ain’t even for sale. And, uh, I caution her, Hey, maybe you should stay off a pillow. If you’re looking for a house, here’s why sites like pillow, quote unquote, what they do is they collect eyeballs. They collect traffic. They make money by selling your name to real estate companies. Now that’s all finding good. I mean, that’s their business model. You know, that’s, that’s what floats their boat. But if they don’t have something to put on their website, they don’t collect name. So they’re not necessarily, oh, how can we put this? They’re not necessarily really, really quick to get something off of their website. They’d rather have a picture up there for you to look at and then call them than nothing at all. So while they’ll add listings readily taking ’em off, sometimes it takes a while.
So when you’re looking at sites like pillow, you’re not necessarily gonna get the freshest most up to date information. So what can you do? There’s a site called mangohomes.kw.com. That’s personal site. You can use it. You don’t even have to register. If you don’t want to, to be honest with you, you can get a hold of all of the information straight out of my MLS, straight to your desk. It’s almost like you’re sitting right here with me. Uh, you can filter for houses, condos, townhouses, mobile homes, land, uh, pending sales just reduced. Um, oh my God. There’s a lot of stuff that you can do in there. Anyway, please. For the love of God, stay away from pillow. Go to mangohomes.kw.com. Use that in again. It’s totally anonymous. If you want to register, go ahead. You get some extra stuff by registering, but to be dead honest with you, it’s fine just as it is. And if you got any questions, tell me anyway, that’s the end of our story and there’s your moral stay away from pillow. Have a great day!!!