subject: Foreclosures Listings: Finding The Best Deal [print this page] Foreclosures Listings: Finding The Best Deal
Finding foreclosure listings are easy to find since you will have many websites at your fingertips with foreclosure listings just by googling foreclosure listings, but how about finding the best deal? You can scroll through several different websites in hopes of finding a good deal, and most likely you will since foreclosed properties generally sell for less, but you may not get the absolute best deal by doing it that way, even if you spend a lot of time on it.
To ensure you get the best deal possible, you would need to subscribe to one of the foreclosure listing websites that allow subscriptions to view the best deals. Subscribing to one of these sites is much like a magazine subscription, and therefore, you see the best deals that others who don't subscribe many times don't see, and even if they do eventually see them, you, along with the other subscribers, are generally the first ones to see them. Even though you will be one of the first to see these good deals, it is a good idea to check through the listings often because the best deals are the ones that typically get sold the quickest!
Although subscribing to foreclosure listings do cost a fee, the charge is very low. Subscribing to foreclosure listings will also, most likely, save you thousands of dollars by getting you the best deal. Since others are paid to find the best deals and put them on the subscribed listings, they charge a low fee, however, there are many subscribed websites that will allow you a free trial period. Many times, these free trial periods last for a week, or even longer. You can cancel at anytime during or right after your trial period, thus not having to pay any money. However, you would need to find your deal very quickly doing it this way, and you would be at the mercy of whatever listings happened to be up that week, or for however long your trial period lasts for.