I received a few questions in the comments and via email last week about how to find bank-owned homes, so I thought I’d put together a little guide. For the purposes of this post, we’ll consider foreclosures in three stages: Pre-Foreclosure, Unlisted Bank-Owned, and On-Market Bank-Owned. Pre-Foreclosure A home in pre-foreclosure is one where the…
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Guided Tour: King County’s New Online Property Records
If you’re like me and you tend to do a lot of public records searches when you’re researching properties, you have probably noticed that King County has given their online property records a big face lift. As far as I can tell all the same information is available as before, plus a few new bonuses…
Top Three Improvements to Sell Quickly?
Great question in today’s open thread: What are the top three things you would spend money on to get a house sold quickly? Here are my top three: curb appeal serious cleaning staging By “curb appeal” I mean literally anything that is visible from the curb. You want your home to make the best possible…
How-To: Navigate and Understand Public Records
Yesterday a reader emailed me asking how to look up public foreclosure documents. Since it’s been over a year since I covered the topic of researching public records, I thought this would be a good time to review the process. In this post we’ll be discussing the process and providing links for King County. For…
How-To Sell Your Home: Deep Clean to Make Your House Shine
A few weeks ago we kicked off a new series: How-To: Sell Your Home in a Down Market with an overview of the important factors that home sellers must address if they want to succeed in selling their homes in today’s market: Pricing Marketing Cleaning Extras Rather than tackling these in the above order of…