I added the Trulia Voices feed for questions about the Arizona Real Estate market to my Google RSS reader last week when the feature was introduced, primarily so I could jump in and answer questions as they were posted.

My thought, and presumably that of the folks at Trulia, is the Voices feature would serve as a sounding board for the buyers who visit Trulia and would like to learn more about a given area without having to contact an actual agent, losing anonymity and taking the risk of having to hear from this agent again in the future.

After a week, though, I’m still waiting to see whether the general public is going to jump in and start their own information gathering. Real estate agents have done so with gusto so far, which can be expected on any site where there’s a counter for how many questions a person asks or how many answers someone provides.

And the count for answers doesn’t stop with sheer volume - you also see how many times you provided the “best answer” in the estimation of the asker, how many times you provided the first answer and how many times you provided a useful answer.

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