Using the Internet to Buy a Home in Denver
By Judith Clausen, Judith R. Clausen
(Buyers Advantage Real Estate of Metro Denver)
Buying a home in Denver is not for the uninformed! You can look at a lot of different places on the internet for Denver real estate, but more than a few are just plain bad. Denver home buyers should avoid CraigsList.com which doesn't have much inventory (a few hundred compared to 24,000+ on the Denver MLS) and is mostly used by listing agents who want to publicize their listing on all the advertising venues or For Sale By Owners whose homes may well be overpriced. What you need when you look at CraigsList is the ability to know whether a home has been on the market FOREVER, whether it's on a busy street, whether it's in foreclosure, whether it's a "fix and flip", what the seller paid for it, and any number of other data that will help a home buyer determine: Is this home a good buy?And ...
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