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My note to her: “Trulia and Zillow both present inactive listings as though they were active to fool the public into thinking that they have more inventory than the agents they exploit for advertising money, even though their listings come straight from the MLS systems. Mere real estate brokers would be fined out of business for pulling these stunts.”<\/p>\n
Despair you nothing, though, hard-working dogs. Every time Trulia or Zillow are caught pulling these bait-and-switch stunts, one more active real estate shopper is turned off of their sites forever. Nice going, suits…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My note to her: “Trulia and Zillow both present inactive listings as though they were active to fool the public into thinking that they have more inventory than the agents they exploit for advertising money, even though their listings come straight from the MLS systems. Mere real estate brokers would be fined out of business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,524,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-fun-with-vendorsluts","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-zillowcom","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1474,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1474\/myspace-should-buy-trulia-zillow-and-active-rain\/","url_meta":{"origin":16285,"position":0},"title":"MySpace Should Buy Trulia, Zillow and Active Rain","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"MySpace, Active Rain, Trulia, and Zillow. 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