Great hanging w/ you and the rest of the crew on Sunday. Hopefully we’ll get another chance to get to know each other even better in the near future.

Stay well my friend.

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia

I’m glad Rudy came by and clarified the company’s position, at least with me. I do wonder how many other agents read the announcement as other than “showing some personality”, but never chose to voice an opinion, and thus have will never know what Trulia’s actual intent with the message was.

I think Trulia has the potential to and often does great things for buyers, sellers, and agents. But I also think Trulia’s system encourages agents to behave in unethical and sometimes illegal ways. My only request has been, to remove those “features” that encourage bad behavior by agents. Pete promised changes, and a couple of small steps in the right direction have definitely been taken. As you can see, I didn’t read the email today as tongue in cheek, so today stunned me as a major step in the wrong direction.

Anyway, I welcome the opportunity to provide input in the future. I’d like nothing more than for Trulia Voices to be a place where the public can consistently get expert advice, in a legal and ethical way.

PS- just a simple cleaning today was all…but it played nicely with the dialogue.

I hope you feel better. I know how those dental appointments can be….Hey, you’re entitled to your opinion about how our community operates. I respect that and value your participation on Voices. I will most certainly keep you in the loop as to any changes we make.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best,

Rudy

P.S. Your profile is looking good……

I also know about the way that the community polices itself…as I wrote previously, I think it’s ineffective. I do understand that Trulia feels it is effective, because the system hasn’t changed, even though myself and several other agents have been vocal in our opinion to the contrary.

Thanks. We appreciate your feedback.

The use of “best Realtor® around” was tongue in cheek. Sorry if it
didn’t come across that way.

We do not police the community so to speak, instead we give agents and consumers the opportunity to do so…and this has been very effective thus far.

We ran multiple agent focus groups to get feedback from Realtors® prior to launching the new profile to make it as useful and robust as possible and to give consumers the most useful information while helping agents market themselves more effectively.

We will continue to improve and enhance the profile as well as all other aspects of the site. We’re truly heading in the right direction.

Regards,

Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia.com