Comments on: Online Case Study: Gib Olander Buys a House

By: mike huskins

mike huskins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:28:45 +0000

Now if Trulia could offer a product that allows the seller to list their home along side the MLS… click & brick method, this would allow the seller to improve the reach of their listing by allowing both the old & new programs a place. I am a ecommerce candiate and no longer require someone to open the front door, set up inspections, loan approval, drive bys, school info, title & escrow selection, so take this out of my costs. In the past 2 years I sold a home in S.F.(Marin) and bought a home in SoCal and Tucson. As long as Realtor’s lobbyist continue to own our state capitals, and newspapers (Real estate advertisers) the consumer will suffer..What are all those great agents doing now for the Real Estate Mkt? Open Houses, running ads and virtual tours…time for a change.

By: Pete Flint from Trulia.com

Pete Flint from Trulia.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:27:58 +0000

Gib,
Great to hear your perspectives. We’re honored.

Overall, we are just at the very early stages of where we want to take the product and think we can do a much much better job and we’re making improvements every week. Keep on watching. Perhaps it is just that everyone else does a worse job that we do…?!

I would also love to hear about the experiences of some real users test driving some of the newer social tools in their real estate research. For example, ask a question or for advice at http://www.trulia.com/voices/ and on similar services at linkedin and Y! Answers. Would be great to see how the responses differed and how useful they were from any of the readers who are in the market.

Pete