Trulia category archives

“This is not my Locker” I know it is inevitable that I will be asked (perhaps 100′s of times) “What did you learn from Inman Connect SF this week”? or “What was the most interesting thing you learned at Inman Connect SF”? or some variation of that general question. In years past I may have [...]

Ok, first off, if I am wrong I will write a letter of apology to all person’s involved in this. But, I came across, an all to familiar, exchange on Trulia Voices today. Granted, I AM NOT A PRACTICING REALTOR (though I do hold a license to do so). I work with Realtors, assisting them [...]

Your favorite real estate sites and blogs today are slick and shiny, modern and contemporary, functional and 2.0. But that wasn’t always the case. Check out some of your favorite sites way back when: Zillow.com circa January 2005 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy circa January 2006 Trulia.com circa October 2005 AgentGenius circa October 2007 RealCentralVA [...]

As the event gets closer, many are rushing to get flights, accommodations and tickets to Brad Inmans RE Connect in San Francisco next week. The event is scheduled for 3 days July 23rd – 25th. The REBlogCamp will be on Tuesday, July 22nd. Here are the Top 10 Reasons you’ll want to consider attending this [...]

Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to reaping the benefits of Blogging and Blog-Surfing. Over the past 5 days I have found MakeUseof.com, a fantastic post by Matt Rathbun, and a web 2.0 tool that every stinkin Realtor/Real Estate Agent/Anybody in Real Estate should be using, without fail…because once again, the [...]

Trulia announces a partnership that allows viewers of listings in 30 or so cities to “Walk The Neighborhood” using Google’s Street View technology. Street view is a service introduced by Google last year that allows viewers to navigate mapped 360 panoramic images from street level in around 30 regions in the U.S.Google’s Street View uses [...]

Yesterday on my personal blog I wrote of the concept of going “Viral” as it pertained to a recent segment I was featured in on a local news program regarding how the Internet is effecting Real Estate in the California Central Valley. Well that clip made it to BlipTV, then to websites throughout the company [...]

What a week for Prudential Real Estate, I guess scheduling a National Convention in New Orleans has spurred some sort of Revolutionary thought process or perhaps Bourbon St has “relaxed” the decision makers to the point where they have a new found understanding of Web 2.0. No matter what the reason, anyone working under “The [...]

For those of you who actually read The Coaches Blogs (thanks to both of you BTW), you remember my post on March 10th stating a new relationship with Trulia.com. Well it’s official now as witnessed by this Yahoo post. What does this mean for Prudential Realtors and offices? First and foremost, this we will give them the “inside track” [...]

I have coffee every weekday morning with a group of guys at our local Starbucks. Yesterday our resident “Answer Man”, Gerry (Gerry is like 50 yrs old or so), ran across a young “Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent in line with a rather unique hairdo…. “Tech Savvy” Real Estate Agent …Ok, so while Gerry is [...]

Well we now know who it is that will replace Yahoo as the recipient of 4million + leads. Read the full story at The Real Estate Coach Blog. Very exciting for all Pru Agents!!

A few weeks ago Michael Wurzer of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) posted an open letter to the Yahoo!, Google, Zillow, and Trulia (David Harris touched on this here on GeekEstate too) requesting that we adopt and contribute to the RETS 2.0 standard. From my standpoint, this was great timing because for the past [...]