Trulia Rentals

I be been using this app for about 2 years for 3 different moves! I love using the trulia app because it’s so easy to use and extremely helpful when finding a place. I always recommend it to anyone looking for a place! I do have a suggestion though. On the filers where you can select how many bedrooms your looking for, could you change it from “1+” to just 1 and so on with all the others? It just doesn’t make any sense. No matter if I choose “1+” 3 and 4 bedrooms still show up, so I might as well leave the filter on “any.” If I’m only looking for a 1 bedroom apartment why would I be looking for “1+”? I think it’s make more sense if the filters were just “1, 2, 3, 4, 5+” bedrooms. Just a suggestion, I still LOVE your app!

?. Period. I am a quadriplegic I think that you should have a link that complements explain from the start the disabilities of you hope to be able to interrogation handicap people, praying that everything is not going to feed the needs of us. I say, but at least list and show some of the things us people the handicap or we in wheelchairs which means the most of us how can’t go upstairs. All we ask is if wecan at least feature an app that shows all flat existing homes is whether intrance is by the garage the front door, maybe even the basement level is where they’re being able to enter. Even if they just have all the things needed to live in the basement, or that upstairs (if I had a upstairs house long as everything I need) is on the main floor that I can enter and there’s no need for me to be upstairs the upstairs wouldn’t even exist to me that’s just like if I got a rent house there’s no upstairs there’s no basement there’s everything I need on one slab so why even imagine having that when there’s no need. Please excuse the miss spelled since it since words, and read between the lines. I’m a quadriplegic again I can’t use my hand so I’m talking to this computer and it says what it wants to say sometime and I can’t fix it. Again I ask to take out what needs to be taken out and read between the lines, Please and thank you.

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My review follows three attempts to contact Trulia’s Customer Support regarding the fluidity of the Trulia Rentals App (to which there was no follow-up from Trulia). Despite running the latest iOS Version, I have experienced numerous issues with my usage of the app. The biggest bug that is quite frustrating involves viewed rentals not indicating that the user has looked at the property by “greying out” the item. As soon as the app is closed out, the user has no indication of what has been seen versus what has not...because all properties reset to green. Which leads to the user spending more time reviewing items that they have previously considered during their last session. Additionally, the “NEW” tag is marked on properties that have been posted for weeks or even months. Even when this is “reported”, they remain within the system. Lately, even rentals that are no longer available are still labeled as “NEW” or “Available”. The app also doesn’t create a user experience based on the parameters and filters set by the users. The “Feed” portion is not properly customized based on user algorithms to show rental content that would interest the users based on their provided information. It is overloaded with rentals that do not match queries.

This is a very well designed app!! Better than Zillow in certain ways. The things that would make it better, is on the renters side it would be nice to hide rentals you definitely know you would never rent so you don’t keep seeing those. What would also be great is a up or down arrow (like a scoring system) for good photos/descriptions and bad (like arrow down on blurry photos) maybe this is only shown to the person who posted?? This way so the owner knows their listing could be better. I find that many property managers don’t click on the all the items you can search for like remodeled, fireplace or even better “working fireplace!!”, balcony etc. so they don’t show up when you typed that in, but the see it in the photos. I just think this app could be even more precise and sophisticated. I love that you can see all the photos on the list page by sliding them without having to go into that page, and, that’s where you can rule out properties right off the bat (they could show up on a hidden page).

I have really enjoyed using Trulia rentals each time I have to move my family. It’s a great design and I love searching by map. The overall user experience is great and I completely recommend it to anyone looking for a rental home. But (the reasons for only 4 stars and not 5) there are a few things that I’d like to see added. First of which is how it shows the local schools. While you can get a listing of all the local schools near by, and a map of the schools, I would like to know which school is ASSIGNED to that address I’m looking at without having to sift through each school’s information to find out. Second: it would be a great added feature to be able to input some local address (like a future work address, or school or some other place that you’re likely to go to every day) and have each rental show the distance/drive time to work. For me, the drive time to work is a huge factor in where I choose to live. Lastly, I’m not sure the app is representing the whole market. I suspect that might be a harder fix, but I’ve seen some rentals elsewhere that weren’t represented in Trulia. I like the app and I’d like it to be my single resource for my home search. Those three issues are really smaller than I make them seem, and I do love the app, but I’d like to see them addressed. I love the app and completely recommend it for anyone looking to find a new home.