jcartano

That is a fair point. I do think this report comes from briefing.com and when msn authors an article they mention that Microsoft owns msn.

That is great advice, it is very easy to add locations so I could add some other locations to the mix without much trouble. I started with Seattle since I personally follow the listings there. I'll strongly consider narrowing the focus of the site and work on a decent color scheme as well :) Thanks

* Who's the target audience for this?

The target audience for this is people that want to evaluate the value of an MLS listing. For instance, I see a listing I am interested in on Redfin/Trulia/Zillow, and search for it at Reyalitor. In the comments I can see that somebody has visited the house and it really does not have 3 bedrooms, or there is mold, or in their opinion it is overpriced. Or positive feedback such as a nice view or a good floorplan. My friends and I discuss houses we see online but there is not a good medium to share this information online.

* Why are you launching in eight cities when you don't have critical mass in one or two yet?

Honestly this is random, but I could scale back to Seattle for now.

* Bright lime green: why!?

I need to get some css skills

* Street addresses don't make for very interesting / differentiated headlines. Have you thought about alternatives? Can you require a picture with submission that you can thumbnail?

I have thought about a picture or being able to get a screen grab using ajax. It might get tricky to require a picture since this would result in copy pasting content from other websites. I'll investigate

I think the main piece of UGC that would really add value to listings are tags. Not for stuff that's already captured in the listing data, like "1 bed", "2 bath", etc. but for more subjective ratings. del.icio.us-like shading of tags to show how many people had tagged a listing with certain qualities would be awesome.

That sounds like an interesting feature. I will look into it.

Thanks for the great feedback!

I started this website as a personal project to learn more about ASP.NET MVC. Now that the site is almost fully functional, I actually think it could be pretty useful as a forum to discuss real estate listings. I know major listing sites will not allow user generated content for listings for legal reasons so this could fill that gap. I would love to get feedback and constructive criticism as well as ideas to make the site more useful.

Thanks, Joe Cartano