This. We tried a few agents, and there's nothing better than a tenacious agent fighting for the house you want. It wasn't even obvious to me to not use my agen

This. We tried a few agents, and there's nothing better than a tenacious agent fighting for the house you want. It wasn't even obvious to me to not use my agent when using Trulia, which I told my agent about when I was doing my own house research; we both just ended up using the tool to weed through some of the properties. I used Trulia to find houses I was interested in, and then I would string them all together in order, share them with my agent, and then we'd use our phones to drive from property to property to check them out. Their mobile app experience was pretty great, we could see what school zones/crime, etc. and a bunch of other stuff. It was _much_ more efficient than the first time we had tried it where an agent brings a printout of nothing but MLK numbers. I ran into some Trulia folks at a conference and wondered why they don't have like a "Pro" account or a way to pay them. I guess it's just not part of the business model, which is weird. When we flew into town to do shopping we had to see as many houses as we could and Trulia was just an amazing value. I would have _easily_ paid a hundred bucks for the time and effort Trulia saved us. As far as using the agent, once we found the house we wanted the agent took it from there.