Your ';MLS'; (Multi-Listing Service) list usually won't help you. Real estate agents list those among other real estate agents in order to get a piece of the commissions for the resulting sales. ';For Sale by Owner'; houses are very rarely on MLS lists--that was the whole idea, an individual did not want to pay commissions to someone else to sell their house. This can save thousands of dollars, especially if the agent simply listed the house and let others sell it--in exchange for a piece of the pie. The big suits, big offices, and big cars are obviously paid for from something, so some people want to sell a house not give big profits to someone who lies (sells) to people all day. It is a pretty cynical thing, but then sales people often deserve the reputation the cynics hold of them.
Nope, you'll have to scour the newspaper ads or drive the neighborhoods you are interested in to find ';For Sale by Owner'; homes. PS: Be sure to get your own appraisals and inspections and a real estate lawyer, because sometimes these owners deserve a bad reputation too.Need To Look For a House That Is FOR SALE BY OWNER AND I HAVE THE NUMBER . I DONT WONT TO FILL OUT FORM?
Try realtor.com. It is not the most up to date but it does give you a field to enter an MLS number and it does have nationwide coverage.
There isn't really any public database for looking up MLS numbers -- you would have to have a real estate agent look up the number in their system. The MLS system is only made available to licensed real estate agents. Sorry, I know it's a PIA. Thankfully, I have a friend who got his hands on the software and lets me use it.
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