Minnesota Foreclosure Mini-Tours

A spontaneous video tour of some fine foreclosed homes
in Minneapolis area

If you are interested in buying a fabulous foreclosure, and would like to get in on one of our area tours, please contact me. We are planning several "Foreclosure Power Tours" through our Minnesota Exit Realty affiliates. We will target specific areas of the Twin Cities, and will be accompanied by experts in the real estate industry who can guide you through the houses, and answer your questions about finding and financing foreclosures in Minnesota. It will be fun....and it's FREE.

Home Shoppers Disappointed by Most Realtor Web Sites

Imagine doing a Google search for real estate in your city and clicking on the first listing that comes up in Google’s search results because we think it will be relevant, only to find a bunch of regurgitated facts and figures about buying and selling a home and 3 “featured listings”. Well that’s what many home shoppers are finding on the internet today. Thousands of Realtors have web sites that simply do not deliver what savvy internet home buyers are searching for, inventory!!.

The worst part is that many of these Realtor web sites are optimized so that they come up on the first page of the search engines, only to disappoint the web visitor who has come to know and trust the search engines for weeding out the useless web sites.

The good news is that there are some Realtor sites that offer their visitors exactly what they are looking for, most of the homes for sale in their local area. It is called the MLS or Multiple Listing Service and it’s the very same system that Realtors have been using to buy and sell our homes for many years. Surprisingly, while roughly 600,000 plus real estate agents have web sites, very few of those actually offer their visitors access to the “holy grail” and as a result, are disappointing visitors who found them with searches like; “Denver real estate”, Orlando real estate, etc.

The best way for consumers to cut through the waste of Realtor web sites and quickly find sites that show thousands of homes for sale in their area is to search using terms like “Miami mls listings”, “Dallas mls listings”, or “Memphis mls search” etc. When you use the more specific term “mls” in your search phrase, only sites that have the term mls somewhere on the page will come up and most of these will offer you access to the biggest database of homes for sale in your area.

An even quicker way to find these useful local real estate web sites is to visit www.mlsmaps.com. MLS Maps has created a national MLS directory which gives you direct access to the MLS listings in 230 cities in the US as well as school information and links to every city and county web site.

For further explanation on how the MLS can help you search for real estate, read;

How to search for homes when you don’t want to be bothered by a real estate agent, and

How to find a home in exactly the neighborhood where you want to live

First Time Home Buyers Resource Blog Launches

Thanks for checking out our blog, dedicated to helping first time home buyers find and finance their first home. As the First Home Guys, we bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the home buying process. We are two guys, one a real estate agent and the other a loan officer who have years of experience helping people buy and finance homes. Having both been first time home buyers, we know how you feel when you begin the process. In the begining, it all may seem very confusing and scary but the good news is when you team up with people who specialize in working with first time home buyers, your dreams can become a reality instead of a nightmare. Not all real estate agents and loan officers are equal and it is important to find professionals who specialize in working with buyers like you, because finding and financing first homes requires a little more patience, a greater ability to explain things and a willingness to take the extra time to make it happen.

We are able to simplify the process and make it a suprisingly easy. We will be posting information from both the real estate and mortgage points of view on a regular basis. Feel free to comment or ask questions anytime. If we don't have the answer, we'll get it for you promptly. You can also see homes for sale in the First Time Homebuyer price range and many other resources at our website like information about first time home buyer seminars in your area and first time home buyer programs at www.firsthomeguide.com. For more information about us you can visit our personal websites at www.thegreatrate.com or www.mnagents.com
Enjoy our blog and happy house hunting!