Improve your home value on Zillow

When you sign up for a dating website, even if you're a fairly attractive individual, you lie. Or at least embellish a little bit. Make yourself look just a little better than you are, in the hopes that someone will be impressed enough to take a shot on you and will be so impressed by the actual you that they won't even notice the little fibs you might have told. Turns out you can do the same thing with your house.

Zillow.com, kind of like a hot or not for houses, tries to determine the value of houses by using public records for certain areas. It also allows homeowners to add certain information about their houses that may not be available in public records. Such as upgrades or improvements you may have made, like say, renovating your kitchen, or installing a solid gold chimney. Which, while aesthetically pleasing, may not be a terribly functional apparatus. Although it stands to reason that if you advertise the fact that if you say you have a solid gold fireplace, people will probably come to see. Then they'll be disappointed, but it'll at least get them in the door. Then you can rob them. Not a bad plan, actually. Anyway, learn more about it here.