Find the houses whose numbers already work

No, and that is the most important thing to understand about this tool. It screens Zillow’s value and rent estimates across essentially every home in each city - roughly 21,000 in a single Frisco ZIP - and finds the ones whose numbers work. It carries no listing status, so a match may be for sale, may have sold last year, or may be a house someone has lived in for a decade. That is not a limitation to work around; it is the point. Every investor is looking at the same MLS inventory, and the ones with the best numbers are usually not on it. A list of addresses whose economics already pencil is where an off-market approach starts.

Because the address list is the part that took work to produce, and handing it to an anonymous browser is the one thing that makes it worthless to everyone. Everything the tool computes about the market - how many homes clear your bar, the medians, the per-city breakdown - is shown to you in full, for free, no email. What Mali sends is the identified list, and she reads it first: which of these are realistically approachable, which are already listed, which have numbers that look good only because the rent estimate is stale. That review is the actual product.

Gross yield is annual rent divided by value - $2,300 a month on a $365,000 house is 7.6%. It is deliberately not a cap rate, because a cap rate needs operating expenses and we do not know this specific property’s tax bill, insurance, HOA, vacancy history, or management arrangement. Publishing a cap rate built on assumed expenses would be a precise-looking number that is quietly wrong. Gross yield is the honest screen; the Rental Property Analyzer is where you build a real net number from figures you supply.

They are Zillow’s Rent Zestimates, and they carry the same caveats as any automated valuation: they are a model, not an appraisal or a signed lease. They are refreshed periodically rather than continuously, so the tool shows you the oldest refresh date in your result set - if that date is several months back, treat the yields as directional. Zillow’s own accuracy varies most on unusual properties and in thin submarkets. Verify against live lease comps before acting, which is exactly what Mali does street by street before she sends anything.

The city list is the North Texas footprint Mali actually works, and screening somewhere she cannot advise you on would be a lead-generation trick rather than a service. The run limit exists because each screen makes real, metered calls against a licensed property-data feed - it is a genuine cost per run, not artificial scarcity. The cap is set well above what any real investor comparing markets would need. If you hit it, email Mali and she will run whatever you want.

No. Every input is financial: estimated value, estimated rent, and the ratio between them. Nothing in this tool reads school ratings, demographics, or any neighborhood-composition signal. Steering a buyer toward or away from areas on those grounds is exactly the Fair Housing violation that gets agents sued, and the safest way not to steer is to have no such data in the model at all. Same rule the Market Finder follows.