Sell residential real estate in Northern Virgina and Washington DC operating the JustNewListings.com team using a real estate 2.0 model for serving consumers.
I think they're waste of time. Probably less than 1% use them. I use 3 android batteries a day with 3000 unique visitors to my website and I use a QR code personally probably 1x/3 months. So it's accomplishing nothing in the RE marketplace. jay (owner) JustNewListings.com Realty Inc.
@John, "as agencies hoard their listings". Please don't lie to people or misinform genuine consumers out there, John, with such mistatements. All the listings in most regions on are the MLS on hundreds and 1000s of sites in EVERY market. And many of those require no registration whatsoever to view homes. That reality is NOT arguable. And it certainly does NOT constitute hoarding listings as you put it.
Partnering with the devil.... All these 3rd parties do several things: 1) drive consumers directly to listing agents...so these partnerships are inherently biased towards a small portion of listing agents--particularly the high powered listing agents that control so much of the listings. [note to everybody I love working with the dominant listing agents; they are the most professional and able $$$ to solve problems, put out fires and get the job done for my buyers in the end] --- so for the buyers agents at these firms, you are being sold out 2) trick/manipulate agents into boosting the SEO of the 3rd parties sites such as the number one expert campaign that got Trulia high up in the search engines...over the local agents who were/are competing for keyword google search influence and rankings. 3) take business away from 2.0 realtors who are offering tons of local content and consumer advocacy to rank high for keyword searches in the market 4) greatly diminish registrations of buyers at local agent's websites as Trulia ranks higher for a high percentage of local niche searches--thanks in part for taking advantage of the ignorance of agents initially on SEO matters and its backlinking scheme for number one expert. Our interests would be better served if all major real estate players withdrew all their listings from Trulia so that local agents or national brokers could offer the ACCURATE AND LIVE data that consumers are seeking. Helping your competition to go to another agent/broker/3rd party is on the high end of a stupid business policy akin to Verizon making me wait another 8 months to shell out $250 for the new phone I want versus letting me buy it now for the same price. I find RE/MAX's policy to sell out disappointing and flabbergasting. jay
