| Don’t worry – you don’t need to sacrifice | | | | through all of the foreclosure lists of all of the banks |
| your firstborn in order to find true free foreclosure | | | | and courthouses in those areas, will drive you nuts, so |
| listings. Banks, insurance companies and even the | | | | you need to find consolidated listings. Check first with |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) | | | | HUD, as they will have foreclosure listings buy state |
| are required by law to make information about | | | | and city. Keep in mind that this will not be a |
| foreclosed property available to the public for free. All | | | | comprehensive list, but there will still be a lot of |
| you need to do is find them and read them. | | | | tempting properties on offer. |
| Hector Milla Editor of the "Free Home Foreclosure | | | | There are many free comprehensive national |
| Listings" website -- -- pointed out; | | | | foreclosure listings on the web, but how do you |
| “… There are two ways to check for free | | | | choose from them all? First, check to see how often |
| foreclosure listings – by a specific location or | | | | the information is updated. Next, be sure they do not |
| nationally. If you have been into real estate speculation | | | | charge any money for "special services". All these |
| for a while, chances are you will prefer to get property | | | | sites are doing is gathering information that banks, |
| in the markets that you know best. You know the | | | | brokerages and HUD has made available for free in |
| streets in the counties with the best reputations and | | | | the first place. There's no need to pay for what is |
| you know which areas that people are clamoring for. If | | | | already available for free. |
| you stick to a specific area, then you can check the | | | | “… Remember, nothing replaces your own |
| pre-foreclosure notices in the county courthouses in | | | | eyeballs for determining how much a foreclosed |
| order to get a jump on the competition …” | | | | property is worth to you. But using free listing services |
| But perhaps you are more interested in the available | | | | can certainly help push your eyeballs in the right |
| properties of an entire state or region. Trying to go | | | | direction …” H.Milla added. |