Trulia; Friend or Foe?

Consumers in no way benifit from this companies service, I think as Realtors® it's our job to educate the public, let them know that Trulia does not have all the listings for an area the consumer is shopping in. Trulia only has listings from agents that have been fooled into believing Trulia is offering them a service they need. Any other agents reading this, I hope you realize that Trulia is your competitor, they very smoothly have tried to give you the impression they are helping you market your listings. In Reality Trulia is competing with you, so don't be fooled by their offers of a map with your listings for your website and other features that can be found elsewhere. They are nice gimmicks to give you the impression they are helping you when in reality you are giving them one-way backlinks to make sure they are at the top of the search engines, not you!

Agents, your clients should know that you are the expert in your market, not Trulia. you have ALL the listings, not Trulia. If we as Realtors® support a company like this by feeding them our listings and adding their mapping to our websites we will soon be paying them for leads, that's right. We will have helped create a company bigger and better than Homegain. Bottom Feeders that want to suck money from us.

Keep in mind, these are our listings. Your fiduciary responsabilty to your seller is to market and sell their real estate. Not to sell your business and soul to a company like Trilia.

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