September 7, 2007
How to find short sales and foreclosures
So you’re buying a house and you’re thinking to yourself, “I want a deal, and in this market I should be able to find someone who is represented by an amateur (who blew their staging and marketing) and will sell their house for less than it’s worth. Or better yet, someone who has to sell or they’ll be foreclosed on.” (That’s a dangling participle, if you’re keeping score)
You’re in luck. Short sales are being advertised.
You only need to search for the code words. Here is what the code words for foreclosure are showing us today:
“Short Sale” - 18 homes and condos for sale in the greater Seattle area
“Motivated Seller” - 125 homes for sale in the greater Seattle area
“Foreclosure” - 11 homes and condos for sale in the greater Seattle area
If you want to see foreclosures as they come on the market, you can save a search with one of those keywords and subscribe to get emails every time a foreclosure comes on the market.
While doing this survey I spotted another example of mediocre representation. Directly from the description of one of the foreclosure homes: “All offers will be reviewed 07/31/2007 and may be subject to bank approval.” The home is still for sale. Oops! Maybe the agent should have included more than one photo. Or more than 2 sentences in the description. Seller, you need to ditch that loser and try out Estately Agent Match.
Have more words we should add to the list? Let me know if the comments and I’ll add ‘em.
September 7th, 2007 at 10:42 am
[…] (formerly the ShackBlog) we did a little digging into how easy it is to find publicly advertised Short sales and foreclosures in the MLS and we found afew. […]
September 21st, 2007 at 9:06 pm
It’s not a dangling participle, you just ended a sentence with a preposition. You should be fined… or flogged… or something. Liked your post.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:06 pm
It’s not a dangling participle, you just ended a sentence with a preposition. You should be fined… or flogged… or something. Liked your post.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:40 am
Oooo. Good point Hutch. The falsely self-accused dangler. After tripping me up, I hope I got the best of the dangling participle.
Tina Blue (that’s a real name?) says it’s ok to end a sentence with a preposition.