Monday, August 25, 2008

Househunters take note!

Gotta love that Sun Wonk. She is prolific! In Sunday's paper I noticed her piece on homesearch web sites. Very good as far as it goes. Check it out here:

'Net assets -- baltimoresun.com

The only problem is she covered only Multiple Listing Service (MLS) sites. IOW, no for sale by owner... no investors wholesale deals...no outside the box thinking.

So here's my epilog:

www.fsbo.com
FSBO = "For Sale By Owner"
(pronounced "fizz-bo")
Found another 30 listings not uncovered by the Wonk. Admittedly the search engine is not as fine tuned...this is within a 50 mile radius of Hampden!

www.forsalebyowner.com
Found another 128 listings, possibly some overlap, but hey, I'm not going to look at every single one!

www.homesbyowner.com
Kinda lame, really, only produced one listing (3 br, 2 bath) in Baltimore, period. But still possibly a valuable resource if checked regularly.

baltimore.craigslist.org
Craig's List is definitely hit-or-miss, but every active investor I know posts their properties for sale here. Check it daily, and call the sellers asap if you're serious. Even if the house you find isn't perfect, the seller may have others coming soon. Or they may know about others coming soon.

Google Alerts
The true beauty of the web is that it's run by computers! Search smarter, not harder! Set up an automated search that will email you whenever a new home is added, or a new web site is setup, or a new blog post talks about your neighborhood of choice. The possibilities are endless. Try some different searches from Google's homepage until you are getting the types of results you want. Then create alerts with the search term(s) you like, and set them to email you once daily or in real time, as you prefer.

Happy hunting!

Cass
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is a good idea to set up a Google alert for you name too. That way you know if someone is writing about you.

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