June 18, 2003

Helloooo Blog

Well, for some strange reason a week has gone by since my last entry. Not sure how that happened. Sometimes I get overwhelmed enough that I don't feel as able to express myself. This last week was also busy. I've been preoccupied by my house hunt, I went to Bend for two days to do some hiking, and there are rumors that work will be picking up again soon.

For the house hunt, I'm mired deep in both mls number hell and getting to know neighborhoods. Portland sucks for house hunting. I hate it. Maybe every city is like this. I want a small cute house and I have decent money to offer. Shouldn't be a big deal, right? Instead I get tons of LARGE houses thrown at me that turn out to either be dumps or in crappy neighborhoods. What sucks is that I'm looking in Northeast, which changes in quality within four-block regions. Impossible to search for regions that small on the web-based services.

The other thing that sucks is that the best online service I've found so far is realtor.com, which lets me save searches and save favorite listings, but doesn't tell me what houses are no longer available, doesn't allow me to annotate notes, and doesn't let me specify things like maximum square footage or smaller areas to search in. If anyone knows search engines with greater granularity, let me know.

Posted by Curt at June 18, 2003 06:18 PM

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http://portlandmlsdirect.com/myhomes.idx

Posted by: at June 18, 2003 10:49 PM

bleah. That has the fewest search options of any of them.

Posted by: Curt at June 19, 2003 01:01 AM

I used the Portland MLS Direct to assist me with my relocation from Boston. I found their property search very effective and received e-mail updates daily on newly listed properties. I found the perfect home and they help me with the entire move.

I would highly recommend www.portlandmlsdirect.com

Posted by: Brad Smith at October 22, 2003 08:13 PM

Do a search of your local area (Portland, Chicago, Denver, etc) and add 'idx search' or 'mls search' to it. This will show you up to date info and you can bypass REALTOR.com ,which is worthless.

Posted by: John Garrett at January 19, 2004 08:08 PM
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