{"id":12126,"date":"2010-08-16T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2010-08-15T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T00:21:11","slug":"real-estate-search-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/real-estate-search-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Search Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone remember what searching for a home was like in the dark ages before the dawn of amazing internet tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/\" title=\"Redfin\">Redfin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estately.com\/\" title=\"Estately\">Estately<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/\" title=\"Zillow\">Zillow<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I was watching the classic real estate flick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091541\/\" title=\"The Money Pit\">The Money Pit<\/a> this weekend, and this scene in particular stood out to me.  Note that The Money Pit was released in 1986, well before anyone outside of academia or government had any clue what the internet even was.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:5px auto; width:560px;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RP1ZVxpTlJc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Fortunately by the time I was old enough to start thinking about buying a home, there were already a variety of halfway decent options for searching real estate online.  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