Margaret, and people wonder why we don't like aggregate sites. I get so frustrated when I see this kind of thing.

I get lots of buyers calling me and quoting homes for sale on Trulia..it's a really poor reference site.

And the whole thing will get even worse now that Realtor.com is going to allow "any old body" to post on their site. 

I had a listing that was a short sale and the sellers were current and they called me and asked why it appeared as a foreclosure on a site.

Hi Margaret, we tell clients that the only web site less reiable than Trulia is Zillow.

I find that it is very frustrating when client rely on these other websites- our MLS just made a change that allows our clients to do their own searches and save  them- this provides them with the most accurate information!  Hopefully this change will stop all of the "for a charge"  websites.  It also eliminates IDX.

Trulia makes me so mad sometimes I could just spit!

According to Trulia there is a house in our market that has been listed for over 2 years at $49,000.00 and I get calls all the time.  The problem is, the cute house shown on Trulia is not on the market, it is the VACANT lot next door.

I have checked the MLS info and it is correct.  Obviously Trulia is screwing up the IDX feed.

All MLS's need their own public website and let's do away with the "info re-propagators"

What is also very frustrating is that so many people believe that "if it is on the internet, it must be true."  

People simply don't want to believe the numbers and the expert in the field, especially if the real numbers are not in their favor.  They would much rather believe the website publishing this "true" information.  WE must be wrong and pulling data from the wrong sources.

I rant about this all the time and it is not just Trulia.  AS Realtors we ought to have rules about our information being mixed with bad info. It is all bait and switch selling.

I only hope that when I explain this misinformation that the buyers will stop using these sites and allow me to create an automated search directly from the MLS.  But I don't think it truthfully stops them from going back and checking them out - and wondering if what I'm telling them is the truth.

Excellent post, Margaret!

Wow!  That still goes on?  Thought that false reporting like that was "history!"

the information age has given rise to a new phenomenon, dis-information age..mis-information age

I'm always amazed at the "other similar properties for sale or sold." I often get small condos in ungated communities listed as "similar" properties to a 4,500 sq. ft. home in a gated community I have listed.

Zillow and trulia may post lots of questionable listings and questionable info on these, but at least they don't try to get you to sign up for a PAID subscription, to see the rest of the info on listings that I often wonder about the existence of like realty trac.

The information that Trulia and Zillow use are inaccurate for the most part... the zillow estimates are ridiculous. Now Trulia has added crime rates ... in my little town it makes it appear we are the hot bed of criminal activity we had 2....I wish there was a way to work with them to get bad prices and info off their sites. The sellers really do not like it!