Trulia has rolled out a bot that can dig up rental listings and local information in response to questions asked through Facebook Messenger. The bot appears to mark the first foray by a listing portal into a technology that some believe will come to play an important role in the early stages of the home search — to the benefit of real estate agents and search sites alike. Trulia’s bot only supports rental searches for now, but the listing portal hinted that it might lend a helping hand to homebuyers in the future. Consumers can access the bot by opening Facebook Messenger on a smartphone and performing a search of “Trulia” in the app’s search bar. After tapping “Trulia” in the same way that you would tap a Facebook friend to send a message to that friend, you ca…