It’s ridiculously late Monday night, and I have a long day scheduled tomorrow, but I can’t let the day end without making a quick comment regarding a conversation on Trulia Voices. A recent poster asked about searching the MLS for homes without needing to sign up at the site they were searching on. Several agents responded that their site offered free searching, with no need to register. In fact, my site offers that feature as well. Try it. I dare you. Actually don’t do that right now. Finish reading this, and then look for your new home. There are 46,861 homes offered for sale via ARMLS, so I’m pretty sure the one you want will still be there in 2 more minutes.
Ooops, I digress. Anyway, as it would happen, Jay Thompson recently upgraded his site’s MLS search feature. He’s practically in love with it, and I don’t blame him. It’s pretty cool. Thus, my answer to the Trulia Voices poster was akin to, “You could use my site, but Jay’s is better, so just use his.”
A short while later, Sylvia Barry from Marin County, California pops into the conversation. Now, I normally don’t enjoy seeing out-of-state agents poking around in the Arizona section of Trulia Voices, which is a viewpoint I’ve even discussed with Sylvia in the past. I have nothing against her personally, but rather with the majority of out-of-state agents that seem to be focused solely on increasing their Trulia stats, and not truly helping people. In this conversation, Sylvia had a great reply that added to the discussion. Subsequently Jay responded to Sylvia with this (and why I had to write this post before the day ended):
Sylvia – just to be clear, I have no respect for Steve.
I’M KIDDING!! He’s a great guy, and quite possibly the third best agent in the Phoenix area — my wife being the best of course, followed distantly by me <wink>
I have to say Jay, “thanks a bajillion for the kind words.” I do, however, wonder if you were drinking that funny Kool-Aid a tad early today.
After my head stopped spinning, I noticed that Sylvia’s reply had received the all powerful thumbs down. Pooo on whomever did that. And just for the record, here’s my repeat vote for the complete removal of the thumbs up/down voting system on Trulia Voices.
I’m done now, so I’ll let you start searching MLS without any further interruption. You won’t get an email or any other type of contact from me until you decide to call or email me to schedule some showings. Thank you for your time.
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Lol. Steve, did you really leave that comment? “You could use my site, but Jay’s is better, so just use his.”
I think I’d just use yours for making me laugh and being so stand-up and honest about it.
On a more serious note, I’m not sure how I feel about the thumbs up- and down- feature on Trulia. For the most part, I seem to like it. Then again, maybe I haven’t participated long enough to experience the abuses of the system.
Now get some rest, have some strong coffee (better make that two) in the morning & have a kick-@$& Tuesday!
You’re more than welcome for the kind words – they are deserved.
And thanks for the kind words to me!
Now let’s join hands and sing kum-ba-ya!
I’m with you on the Trulia Voices thumbs. Seems to be abused and provides no real value…
@Ricardo, I really did say that. Follow the link, and you’ll see. And being more honest…I was hoping humor would get me a tiny bit of love, given it’s my best feature now.
@Jay, I’m really looking forward to the next couple of weeks working together/meeting up with our various get-togethers. And even better, meeting Francy in person.
And Rudy from Trulia suggested he’d consider feedback from me in the future. Hopefully the thumbing feature is something they’ll listen to me about.
Great post Steve, had me laughing! Seems to be a lot of love between the agents in the Phoenix Metro area and third best is very respectable!
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