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Hi there!   I’m Brandon, and I’m a new product manager at Trulia.  I recently joined the team, and look forward to contributing to making the consumer experience great for home buyers, sellers, and renters.  As you may have heard, since we launched our new rental platform, we have been hard at work to address a feature that many Trulia users have asked for.  More local data!

For a long time Trulia has been providing school information, crime statistics, and market trends for local areas in an effort to help our buyers research neighborhoods they live in, or may want to live in.  Three weeks ago, we added local area ratings as yet another tool in this arsenal.  The response has been overwhelming, with over 140,000 ratings submitted since that time.  The cities with most ratings to date are:

• Chicago, IL : 2,052 ratings
• Philadelphia, PA:  1,754 ratings
• San Francisco, CA:  1,034 ratings
• Los Angeles, CA: 974 ratings
• Brooklyn, NY:  942 ratings

This week, I’m pleased to announce the launch of another great addition to our local area content:  Local area reviews.

To submit a local area review, click the rate and review button on the main property page, or on the maps and nearby tab.  From the there you can:

• Provide an overall rating
• Rate by category
• Recommend the area
• Specify how you know the area
• Review the area

Be sure to tell us about the surrounding area, be it the neighborhood, sub-neighborhood, or actual block.  The more local your knowledge, the more helpful it will be to another person!  Do you live on the coolest block in your city?  Tell us about it.  Does your neighborhood have the best restaurants and stores?  We want to know.  Over time we will be able to showcase the Trulia community’s aggregated local area ratings, and reviews for every neighborhood and every block!

As an added bonus, we’ve added reviews as an element of our VIP program.  And, for all you mobile users, be sure to try out local ratings on your mobile phone as well.  You can read more about our other newly launched mobile features in Rob’s blog post from last week.

Happy rating and reviewing everyone!

-Brandon

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