Trulia Voices: An Alternative
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Jonathan Dalton
When I was in management I always used to tell my employees not to come to me with complaints unless they had alternatives and or solutions in mind. Of course, now that I have my own blog and don’t have any employees (at least any that don’t walk on all fours and require knee surgery), I can complain all I want and you can’t stop me.
I’d offered one possible solution to the dilemma of agents answering questions on Trulia Voices with virtually no knowledge of the area of which they are speaking. Life in Metairie is different than life in Maricopa County, after all.
(Ah, local knowledge … I just realized in one answer I had mentioned Metairie County which isn’t really a county after all. Not to mention there are no counties in Louisiana, only parishes, which is one of those quirky little oddities that escapes the notice of most outside the area.)
In any event I’ve come up with an alternative to Trulia Voices, at least here in the Phoenix area. I’m not going to speak for Jay and Steve and Heather but I’m sure they’ll want nothing to do with it so just stay here and DON’T EVER LOOK AT THEIR BLOGS!
I jest.
My great solution is called “Tobey’s Voice” otherwise known as “Ask the Agent.” Send an e-mail or post a comment and you’ll get an answer from a real live agent who actually lives and works in the Phoenix area. Your answer will be screened to avoid any Fair Housing violations and every answer will not begin with “have you asked your agent?”
Note: if the question is about your home and it’s currently listed (i.e., you’ve hired an agent to sell your home) I’ll probably tell you to ask the person you hired first.
It’s a novel concept only being practiced by a few dozen real estate agents across the country - or, to the point, almost any blogger out there except for the few who don’t allow comments or don’t have a conspicuous e-mail address.
Who knows if something so 1.0 will catch on but Tobey and I will give it a shot.
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