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James Boyer said:
Trulia has the look and feel of a company who is yet another in a long line of companies who provides a little bit of honey at first in order to get people (in this case the REALTORS) to give them for free what they cannot get by even paying for it, any other way. From what it looks like to me, this is all done with the long term goals of building a profit center which likely will be funded from the back pockets of the very REALTORS who are giving the data away to Trulia for free today.

James, you are completely correct.  That is most definitely Trulia's strategy.   This strategy is clever &…

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My blog account just got activated here.  The blog post below was originally posted to GoonDocks.com.

Recently there was a post made to "RealEstateWebMasters.com" by a REALTOR who was annoyed that other REALTORS were linking to and consequently "feeding" Trulia.

What followed were responses by other REALTORS who supported this idea and questioned why consumers need Trulia. Many implied Trulia was hurting consumers by providing inaccurate information. Many others expressed their frustration that Trulia was ranking ahead of them in search engines.

I don't work for Trulia. I am not a real estate agent. I am a web application developer with over 5 years of experience working in the real estate industry. I am also an admirer of what Trulia has…

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