Comments on: Trulia better real estate search http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/ Seattle's Leading Resource for Real Estate Information Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:47:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Real Estate Taxi http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-340913 Real Estate Taxi Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:12:45 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-340913 Trulia is really useful and it a really interesting real estate search engine. Walt Trulia is really useful and it a really interesting real estate search engine.

Walt

]]> By: My times have changed since… « 4realz.net http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-245474 My times have changed since… « 4realz.net Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:08:07 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-245474 [...] January 17, 2008 by Dustin I used to get negative comments (and worse emails) for liking Trulia!  [...] [...] January 17, 2008 by Dustin I used to get negative comments (and worse emails) for liking Trulia!  [...]

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Who is Trulia Serving? http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-2520 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Who is Trulia Serving? Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:27:00 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-2520 [...] In reading over my text, I can’t help but notice just how negative I sound on Trulia. In reality, they are a great group of people and I’ve enjoyed EVERY interaction I’ve ever had with them. Along those lines, I decided to go back and remind myself of why I found Trulia so inspiring when they launched: [...] [...] In reading over my text, I can’t help but notice just how negative I sound on Trulia. In reality, they are a great group of people and I’ve enjoyed EVERY interaction I’ve ever had with them. Along those lines, I decided to go back and remind myself of why I found Trulia so inspiring when they launched: [...]

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Cancel Your Plans And Join us for a Trulia Chat Tonight! http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-2455 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Cancel Your Plans And Join us for a Trulia Chat Tonight! Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:51:49 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-2455 [...] Cancel Your Plans And Join us for a Trulia Chat Tonight! March 2, 2006 I just spoke with Sami Inkinen and Kelly Roark of Trulia. They are currently making the rounds in Seattle, and we all agreed that it would be fun to spend some time talking “real estate technology” while they are in town! (Why aren’t they in Seattle yet???) [...] [...] Cancel Your Plans And Join us for a Trulia Chat Tonight! March 2, 2006 I just spoke with Sami Inkinen and Kelly Roark of Trulia. They are currently making the rounds in Seattle, and we all agreed that it would be fun to spend some time talking “real estate technology” while they are in town! (Why aren’t they in Seattle yet???) [...]

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Trulia Lands in New York http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-1747 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Trulia Lands in New York Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:28:04 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-1747 [...] I wrote a post on their service when they launched in California. In general, they have one of the nicest interfaces around for real estate search. If someone is looking for inspiration on how to build a tight real estate search that is focused on providing a maximum of useful information to buyers, they they need to look no farther than Trulia to see how it can be done. [...] [...] I wrote a post on their service when they launched in California. In general, they have one of the nicest interfaces around for real estate search. If someone is looking for inspiration on how to build a tight real estate search that is focused on providing a maximum of useful information to buyers, they they need to look no farther than Trulia to see how it can be done. [...]

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » The State of Real Estate Search http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-814 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » The State of Real Estate Search Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:14:48 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-814 [...] cussion on how new real estate search tools will affect the real estate agents. (Sep 28) Trulia Better Search Engine: Analysis of Trulia’s home search tool. (Sep 11) Latest Stab at On-line M [...] [...] cussion on how new real estate search tools will affect the real estate agents. (Sep 28) Trulia Better Search Engine: Analysis of Trulia’s home search tool. (Sep 11) Latest Stab at On-line M [...]

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Better Late than Never http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-733 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Better Late than Never Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:14:52 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-733 [...] ail, IM, comments, etc that the data on Trulia is incomplete and outdated. In many ways, my heart is really with the Trulia team because I think they are offering a superior search. I really like t [...] [...] ail, IM, comments, etc that the data on Trulia is incomplete and outdated. In many ways, my heart is really with the Trulia team because I think they are offering a superior search. I really like t [...]

]]> By: eddie rosenthal http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-692 eddie rosenthal Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:05:59 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-692 Wow Trulia is truly wonderful! I expect some day it will become real time, and be an accurate source of real data. I like the graphical pins stuck in a map, similar to the sort of thing with google maps. Right now the only problem with its content is that it is rather old data. I live in Petaluma so I went to Trulia (first timer) and loved its simplicity. But I picked a Petaluma Home that was for sale on Trulia and it sold ages ago. I mean the 'selling' price was already listed in the local MLS here, so presumably it has been at least 30 days since it recorded and the selling price published. The main problem behind the internet hype of these products is that they do sell the sizzle rather well, but for actual product there is something lacking. There are for example many companies that had no brick and mortar and played with an internet business model and lost a lot of money. Most companies still go out of busines because they have flair but no substance. I have no objection at all with the data being there, as long as the client / owner has agreed to have it placed on the internet. I presume the final say belongs to the client and not the brokerage. For a buyer seeking to find product there has to be real communication in real time. It will get really good if a voice activated robot can chat with a seeker in real time to say if that home is still available. And then there is the 'map is not the territory' problem. I mean a client may really like what is written down, but to purchase without foot stomping through the thing is usually a waste of time ( discounting the remote investor types ). And for that I am grateful, for at least that way I can meet a human being and be of service with local knowledge and a truer relationship. Wow Trulia is truly wonderful! I expect some day it will become real time, and be an accurate source of real data. I like the graphical pins stuck in a map, similar to the sort of thing with google maps. Right now the only problem with its content is that it is rather old data. I live in Petaluma so I went to Trulia (first timer) and loved its simplicity. But I picked a Petaluma Home that was for sale on Trulia and it sold ages ago. I mean the ’selling’ price was already listed in the local MLS here, so presumably it has been at least 30 days since it recorded and the selling price published.
The main problem behind the internet hype of these products is that they do sell the sizzle rather well, but for actual product there is something lacking. There are for example many companies that had no brick and mortar and played with an internet business model and lost a lot of money. Most companies still go out of busines because they have flair but no substance. I have no objection at all with the data being there, as long as the client / owner has agreed to have it placed on the internet. I presume the final say belongs to the client and not the brokerage.
For a buyer seeking to find product there has to be real communication in real time. It will get really good if a voice activated robot can chat with a seeker in real time to say if that home is still available.
And then there is the ‘map is not the territory’ problem. I mean a client may really like what is written down, but to purchase without foot stomping through the thing is usually a waste of time ( discounting the remote investor types ). And for that I am grateful, for at least that way I can meet a human being and be of service with local knowledge and a truer relationship.

]]> By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Agents: Are you prepared? http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-675 Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » Agents: Are you prepared? Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:42:45 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-675 [...] letely disagreed with me, although only one agent, John Lockwood , took the initiative to responded on the record). Thank you John! I’m going to pick on your comments in this post on [...] [...] letely disagreed with me, although only one agent, John Lockwood , took the initiative to responded on the record). Thank you John! I’m going to pick on your comments in this post on [...]

]]> By: John Lockwood http://raincityguide.com/2005/09/28/trulia-better-real-estate-search/#comment-672 John Lockwood Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:45:39 +0000 http://raincityguide.com/?p=184#comment-672 Hoarding the data? That's a good one. Have you seen my <a href="http://www.sacramento-home.com/Search.php" rel="nofollow">Sacramento Search Page</a> -- to name just one place where I'm not hoarding it? I make my living publishing the data, and I'm <i>licensed</i> to make my living publishing it. But as for your pal, Pete, how long after this site catches on do you think it will be before he and his company decide they can have a nice tasty new revenue stream, the Trulia For Sale By Owner listing? Why bother just selling ad space to agents when they can make one or two hundred bucks per house listing your home for sale on the national MLS that they've created and all the agents have tripped over themselves to suck up to? Anna likes the idea now, sure. Let me know what she thinks five years from now when whatever Trulia leads she manages to get against the 150 other Seattle agents who are also competing for them start asking her to drive them around to all those nice Trulia FSBOs they pulled up. "It was on the web site -- why CAN'T you take me?" Or here's one -- $29.95 premium Trulia membership includes a free list of Trulia-approved agents in your area, all of whom give you a 50% commission rebate? They're already linking to those marvelous commission rebaters over at Zip Realty, 20% off the top. What's to prevent them from competing with that business model with the Trulia-discount-Realtor (tm). Here's a ready made motto: "We bend over twice as far because we're competing on service." Sure, it's sour grapes -- if NAR hadn't allowed for IDX, I'd never be making the living I am now. Now Trulia can take that away. We don't manufacture anything any more in this country -- we used to make software and I did that for awhile until Bill Gates lobbied successfully to allow everyone and their brother through the gates, and the rest of it shipped off to Bangalore. The only wealth we have left is our Real Estate, and now some son-of-a-prawn-farmer will probably get a boatload of Trulia stock options for suggesting some way to screw people like me and your wife that I haven't even considered yet. But hey, maybe you can be the first-listed in Seattle and make a few bucks before they turn on you. Hoarding the data? That’s a good one. Have you seen my Sacramento Search Page — to name just one place where I’m not hoarding it? I make my living publishing the data, and I’m licensed to make my living publishing it.

But as for your pal, Pete, how long after this site catches on do you think it will be before he and his company decide they can have a nice tasty new revenue stream, the Trulia For Sale By Owner listing? Why bother just selling ad space to agents when they can make one or two hundred bucks per house listing your home for sale on the national MLS that they’ve created and all the agents have tripped over themselves to suck up to?

Anna likes the idea now, sure. Let me know what she thinks five years from now when whatever Trulia leads she manages to get against the 150 other Seattle agents who are also competing for them start asking her to drive them around to all those nice Trulia FSBOs they pulled up. “It was on the web site — why CAN’T you take me?”

Or here’s one — $29.95 premium Trulia membership includes a free list of Trulia-approved agents in your area, all of whom give you a 50% commission rebate? They’re already linking to those marvelous commission rebaters over at Zip Realty, 20% off the top. What’s to prevent them from competing with that business model with the Trulia-discount-Realtor ™. Here’s a ready made motto: “We bend over twice as far because we’re competing on service.”

Sure, it’s sour grapes — if NAR hadn’t allowed for IDX, I’d never be making the living I am now. Now Trulia can take that away. We don’t manufacture anything any more in this country — we used to make software and I did that for awhile until Bill Gates lobbied successfully to allow everyone and their brother through the gates, and the rest of it shipped off to Bangalore. The only wealth we have left is our Real Estate, and now some son-of-a-prawn-farmer will probably get a boatload of Trulia stock options for suggesting some way to screw people like me and your wife that I haven’t even considered yet.

But hey, maybe you can be the first-listed in Seattle and make a few bucks before they turn on you.

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