Carol J.

I have tried almost a dozen websites like Trulia and Trulia hands down has the HIGHEST DENSITY OF SCAMS per listing of them all. I live in Denver and the market for renters has become rapidly very tough and it can be hard to find something in your budget if you make less than 70k. I was initially excited to see that Trulia had so many affordable listings near my partner's place of work (I drive, he doesn't). A couple of these listings were ridiculously cheap, which I figured were probably scams, but all the others I had no reason to suspect were anything other than good deals that I should pounce on immediately. I contacted at least 13 "property managers." As it turns out, I have received responses from about 75% of the "property managers" that I have contacted and 100% of those responses were outright attempted scams. I was able to flag and have these listings taken down, but my time spent on Trulia was completely wasted as I was put in contact with zero legitimate rentals within my budget (and I know for a fact that my budget is not THAT low). Trulia has absolutely zero infrastructure in place to screen potential listers, which is actually worse than Craigslist, a non-profit entity.