Zillow Rental Manager | Reviews and Pricing | 2024
Zillow Rental Manager is a property management tool from Zillow that allows DIY landlords to submit and manage their properties within the Zillow ecosystem. It includes tenant screening, lease signing, and rent collection.
Zillow Rental Manager was launched by Zillow in 2016. Founded in 2006, Zillow is headquartered in Seattle, WA.
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Use Zillow Rental Manager if…
- You love the usability and how easy it is to submit and manage listings and auto-pay
Skip Zillow Rental Manager if…
- You have more than 100 units (consider AppFolio)
- You need a lot more features while still sharing listings to Zillow (consider TenantCloud)
- You are a professional property manager with more than 20 units (consider Buildium)
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Best Features
Superb Usability
Using the manager and submitting properties is extremely easy. The UI is superb. Properties autofill when submitting and you can quickly set up your property listing.
Zillow Price My Rental
Zillow has a Rental Zestimate. It is probably one of the best rental AVMs because Zillow is the primary destination for single family rentals. Many property managers don’t put rentals on the MLS, which means Zillow likely has better data than anyone on rentals.
But I’m not talking about the Zestimate.
Zillow has a “Price My Rental” tool that is frustratingly basic, but also incredibly useful for finding not only active competition in your market but off market listings that were on the market recently. While Zillow can’t tell whether these former listings rented successfully or not, it is information you can’t get anywhere else.
It’s incredibly useful, even for institutional landlords, when it comes to correctly pricing rentals.
Biggest Pitfalls
Few Professional Features
Zillow doesn’t include maintenance tracking, rental insurance relationships, tenant portals, or sophisticated reporting.
Only Syndicates to Zillow
Zillow, Trulia, and Hotpads are usually important websites to get your rental listed on.
But there are others! And this is an anemic list compared to other tools that will syndicate your listing to Zillow’s ecosystem as well as the many others.
Zillow Rental Manager Pricing*
- $9.99/wk for a listing
- First listing is free
Zillow charges $9.99/week that your rental is listed.
*This is current to the best of my knowledge at the time of this writing. Contact the vendor directly to check current prices, discounts, and terms.
My Personal Recommendation
I submitted my own house as a Zillow rental, though I have not used it to collect rent. The user interface is seamless and incredibly easy to set up.
It was once free to submit listings to Zillow’s family of websites, but in 2019 Zillow began charging for posting listings. You can still display listings on Zillow via posting them on your MLS if your MLS syndicates to Zillow (but, per MLS rules, are then incurring an obligation to offer a leasing agent compensation).
However, there are other ways to get your listing onto Zillow, but with more sophisticated management tools. Avail and TenantCloud have free plans that have an option of syndicating to Zillow.
The Zillow UI is really good and makes it easy to use. You clients, who may already be familiar with Zillow, may also find it easy to use. But there are also more feature-rich options available for significantly less money.
Lastly, even if you don’t use Zillow Rental Manager extensively, having an account and using the Price My Rental Tool is probably a good idea.
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