‘Contacts’ meaning on Zillow for a rental

[Account Closed]

Hi there,

My property has an upcoming vacancy and was just listed for rent by my property managers. It’s only been on the market for 2 days and I already see 17 contacts according to Zillow.

Should I be taking anything from this number? To me, 17 contacts in 2 days seems like pretty high demand for a unit but not sure if this number can be relied upon

[Kevin Zolea]

@Account Closed I just rented out a unit and had a lot of people contact me that just sent the automated message from zillow but once I responded never got back to me. It would be hard to know how many of those 17 contacts were actually leads unless you ask your property manager.

[Peter M.]

@Bret Habura Don't put any value in that number. Most are tire kickers. One nice feature for potential tenants is that they can fill out one application and pay one credit check fee to be sent to landlords for one month. So they do that and just shotgun blast to see what they can get

[Account Closed]

@Peter M. and @Kevin thanks a lot. I figured it didn’t make too much sense. Especially when I’ve seen a property listed for a day with 60+ “contacts”