u/ChiGuyDreamer

We have not looked in several years so I’m not sure how to understand the time in the market for Zillow.

So many posts talk about rabid competition but then I see apartments out there with 15-20 days on the market. Should I read anything into that? Does that indicate a problem?

These are all north side places. In the $3500-4200 range. Nothing fancy but decent. Something that I would have thought would go fairly quickly.

Wasn’t sure if listings stay up if leases have been signed but the new renter hasn’t yet taken over. Maybe they are using it as a lead magnet even though it’s not really for rent. Or maybe something is wrong with these places.

My wife and I started looking for a place and we ran across two places on the same street on Zillow. Different buildings. But same block. Both listings have a property manager under a broker. But the two properties managers are different. Same broker something like

ABC LLC
BIG BROKER

XYZ PROPERTY MGR
BIG BROKER

BUT both listings are sharing some of the same pictures. Clearly the same pic. Not just similar building style. Again these are two different buildings.

We can’t decide if these are lazy realtors, stupid realtors or just a simple scam. Is this common? We haven’t looked in a few years and didn’t run into this.