Apartment Finder VS Auction.com

We've been searching apartments.com, apartmentfinder.com and craigslist (which gets sketchy / scams). Source: 9 months ago

Since you're new to the area, renting an apt would be a good first start. You probably know all the websites for searching- apartments.com, apartmentfinder.com, apartmentguide.com, rent.com, but avoid craigslist, facebook- lots of sketchy landlords. A good rule for new resident is to stick with regular apt complexes instead of small landlords; there are more protections and infrastructure for dealing with repairs,... Source: 11 months ago

Zillow is probably the best. apartmentfinder.com is another good one. Source: 12 months ago

I'm an incoming PhD student, and I'm way behind on getting housing for the fall. I've called practically every complex within a thirty minute walk of campus, and studios and one bedrooms are pretty much all full unless you've got 3k a month for housing. I've been looking at Collegetown Center / Collegetown Plaza today, and I've been coming up emptyhanded other than apartments.com and apartmentfinder.com I sent a... Source: about 1 year ago

Apartments.com Apartmentfinder.com Apartmentguide.com Zillow.com. Source: about 1 year ago

Interesting. Where are you looking for auctions at? hubzu? auction.com? Not seeing great deals on either... What areas are you looking at? Source: about 1 year ago

What are your experience with buying house through auction and is it worth the time. Do you use auction.com or it best to connect with the county? Please help. Source: over 1 year ago

All of the other properties they own were bought at significant discounts. This could mean anything from buying them during market crashes (2008-2009), buying non-livable properties and fixing them up, finding properties zoned for multi-family with a single unit and knocking the unit down and building multi-family, adding ADUs where properties were already zoned and garages were already built, h over 2.5 - it's... Source: over 1 year ago

So I did a little bit of digging on auction.com's website, and it does seem like they have a "first look" program for basically everyone except investors. This house isn't coming up as a first look property though. I think I'm going to bid and hopefully not run into any issues. I guess the worst thing that can happen is I lose the EMD. Source: over 1 year ago

Also noticing auction.com has had bed/bath wrong. They were wrong on my current house, 2/1 not a 3/1, and are wrong on another house I was thinking about buying, 3/1 not a 3/2. Not sure if this is intentional or not... Source: over 1 year ago