Actually this isn’t the begining, but it is the begining of us really house hunting. For the past 6 months we have been using Redfin and Trulia to search for homes that we might be interested in. The problem we ran into with Redfin is that the concept is great and their search is top notch, but they won’t work with short sales. Now hold on before you tell me short sales suck, I already know this. I’m just interested in trying for the homes we like, and if that involves the possibility of a short sale I want to be able to make sure I’m using a Realtor that wants to work with us to find our home. This is what brings us to our possible new Realtor, Dan Slater from Orange Realty. He seems like a really nice guy so that’s a start. He mentioned he is a board member on the city of Orange Chamber of Commerce and he knows one of the marketing guys at my work. Next I’ll have to see if my barber knows him (Dick seems to know everyone). Here are our housing qualifications.
We are looking for homes under the $400k range and we don’t want to deal with PMI
We love Orange and would love to live in the Plaza area but we know we can’t afford that, so we are looking in a couple various Neighborhoods in Orange and also Garden Grove.
3 Bedroom 1+/2 Bath
1000+ Sq/Ft house on 7000+ Sq/Ft lot
Prefer to have a back yard without a pool
2 car garage is a must
He’s going to take us out looking at homes on Sunday, so that should be fun. I will keep you all posted on how things go and I’ll try to take some pictures of the homes we go look at.
Oh and for you political fans, no this is now Dan Slater from Colorado. ;)
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4 thoughts on “House Hunting – The Begining”
Hey there,
I saw this blog and wanted to pass on http://www.ziprealty.com. We used that site to buy our place and they do work with short sales. Plus, you get some return back on the sale. Hope that helps. We looked for our places for 6 months before we found the one we wanted. Happy hunting! Oh, and our relator was Dale Wood. He was pretty decent, but not quite as aggressive as we wanted.
Hey there,
I saw this blog and wanted to pass on http://www.ziprealty.com. We used that site to buy our place and they do work with short sales. Plus, you get some return back on the sale. Hope that helps. We looked for our places for 6 months before we found the one we wanted. Happy hunting! Oh, and our relator was Dale Wood. He was pretty decent, but not quite as aggressive as we wanted.
@Kacy
OMG, Kacy! Long time no talk. I’m really happy to hear from you. I’ll check out that site today. I hope everything is going well with you!
@Kacy
OMG, Kacy! Long time no talk. I’m really happy to hear from you. I’ll check out that site today. I hope everything is going well with you!