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My company, Trusty, is designed to bring transparency and unbiased opinions to real estate. Our tagline is "real estate made real" through crowdsourced insights

My company, Trusty, is designed to bring transparency and unbiased opinions to real estate. Our tagline is "real estate made real" through crowdsourced insights and some refer to us as a "Social Zillow" since we encourage conversation about specific homes, neighborhoods, and the market in general. All of this community content creates a Wikipedia-style database that rivals the long-standing MLS monopoly as the source of truth for housing information, both on and off-market. We're disrupting residential real estate in 3 key ways: 1) More transparency Trusty is like a "Yelp for real estate" where the community rates, reviews, adds price estimates and other user-generated content to houses. 2) More data Through UGC, we’re building a Wikipedia-style database that is evergreen and houses both quantitative and qualitative data, the latter of which has never been available through the MLS or any other real estate portal. 3) More options With all our user commentary and data, people can discover and make pre-emptive offers on any home, whether it’s for sale or not. We launched in California and have UGC on 3,000+ properties in NorCal with an emphasis on Sacramento and Marin County. But our community covers 90% of the state of CA so feel free to login and ask questions about any property you find and someone will likely chime in with their opinion. https://trustyco.com/ https://trustyco.com/ Since it sounds like you have some specific needs, I'd be happy to connect 1:1 to see how we may be able to assist with your real estate endeavors. Our passion is helping people just like you find the unbiased truth when it comes to real estate. That's why we named the company Trusty. Reach out anytime. Tim -- Tim Hyer Co-founder and CEO | Trusty tim@trustyco.com https://trustyco.com/ https://trustyco.com/

Otternonsenz 5y ago
Hey Tim, If I can, I’d like to ask a few questions here, in the name of transparency and as someone whose license is predicated on “unbiased opinions”: 1. How does a “social Zillow” engender trust if anyone can post an opinion on a property? What stops bad actors from “review bombing” a listing on your platform? 2.What exactly are you disrupting? While I am with you that more people should have access to these systems, they are still run locally by the realtors that are putting their own listings on, and are held to certain standards of data reliability under penalty of being booted off these systems. Can the same be said for those that submit bad data to your platform? 3. Do homeowners get a say in not receiving these offers when they aren’t selling? It certainly sounds like it would be adding more spam sent to homeowners that do not need it, but I would love to be educated on why that wouldn’t be the case. 4. What value are you as a company extracting from crowdsourcing this data on the homes in your platform? Will you be taking a cut from offers made, or is this more of a way to connect interested parties? 5. I see all these buzzwords trying to connect a cohesive story to spin your product, but how is your platform providing value to end users, especially if you are touting it as a Wikipedia-style database?
- lbr 5y ago
  I like this concept. Finding and assessing agents stinks. I've spent a bunch of time looking at places in the Truckee, CA area. Finding the good agent was the hardest part - I wish I had been able to look at their opinions on places, and how they compared to the consensus. Care less about the social features with random people. But I suppose I do care about yelp reviews, and trip advisor reviews... so maybe my thinking is flawed.

Otternonsenz 5y ago

Hey Tim, If I can, I’d like to ask a few questions here, in the name of transparency and as someone whose license is predicated on “unbiased opinions”: 1. How does a “social Zillow” engender trust if anyone can post an opinion on a property? What stops bad actors from “review bombing” a listing on your platform? 2.What exactly are you disrupting? While I am with you that more people should have access to these systems, they are still run locally by the realtors that are putting their own listings on, and are held to certain standards of data reliability under penalty of being booted off these systems. Can the same be said for those that submit bad data to your platform? 3. Do homeowners get a say in not receiving these offers when they aren’t selling? It certainly sounds like it would be adding more spam sent to homeowners that do not need it, but I would love to be educated on why that wouldn’t be the case. 4. What value are you as a company extracting from crowdsourcing this data on the homes in your platform? Will you be taking a cut from offers made, or is this more of a way to connect interested parties? 5. I see all these buzzwords trying to connect a cohesive story to spin your product, but how is your platform providing value to end users, especially if you are touting it as a Wikipedia-style database?

lbr 5y ago
I like this concept. Finding and assessing agents stinks. I've spent a bunch of time looking at places in the Truckee, CA area. Finding the good agent was the hardest part - I wish I had been able to look at their opinions on places, and how they compared to the consensus. Care less about the social features with random people. But I suppose I do care about yelp reviews, and trip advisor reviews... so maybe my thinking is flawed.