Which year to put in for "year built"

Logan008
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My house had a massive remodel and now the title from the city has the date for "year built" as the date of the remodel. Can I put this in for Zillow or do I need to keep the original date?

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January 13 - Ballard

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Logan008
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Thanks everyone for your answers.

Logan

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January 16

wetdawgs
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If I were a buyer and looking for homes and saw a build date of something like 2010 (whenever your remodel was) - I would expect a home from the dirt up to be 2010, including sewer lines, electrical from the poles, everything meeting 2010 building codes etc. If a portion of the house is older, you might find keeping the older date with comments on the massive remodel date are more consistent with expectations. It is a difficult situation as any automated valuation system will use a single number, therefore, your home with a combination of some remodeled and some original would be outside the bounds of what the model would be capable of doing.

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January 13

Becky Rensing, "Becky Rensing"
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Your house "year built" date will be the original date of construction. Typically the taxing entity will show the actual year built and the year of remodel/addition separate.

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Becky Rensing
Real Estate Broker

Classic Homes Realty, LLC
Classic Property Management, LLC

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January 13

John Hurlbut, "jhurlbut"
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I would use original year built and make a comment about the massiv remodel. If they have an "effective year" you can use that field for the remodel date. John Hurlbut, Realtor, ABR, GRI, CFS John L Scott Real Estate