Most real estate home buyers are obsessed with finding the next great deal. So much so that they stay up into the wee hours of the night scouring the internet for properties, As real estate agents know, our livelihoods depend on the accuracy of the data we analyze and for that reason I’m begging you to PLEASE stop searching for real estate on nationwide portals like Trulia, Zillow and Homes.com - amongst many others! For the past 12 months brokerage after brokerage has decided to withdrawal their listings from the nationwide real estate search portals citing, among other things, horribly inaccurate information and in some cases outright scams. Very Inaccurate Real Estate Search Results National portals like Trulia and Zilliow are slow to show new listings. When a property is listed for sale it hits the local MLS in a matter of minutes, usually about 15, but can take as long as 9 days to populate to nationally syndicated sites according to studies on t...