https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:52:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2480879 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:06:59 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2480879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My MIL drove by the neighborhood and thought that we would like the houses. We already had a realtor and were looking so we asked our realtor to take us there and we then put in an offer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2480457 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:59:34 +0000 MediaNaranja 2480457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a realtor. He had a website set up w/ MLS listings, and set it up to send me a daily digest of things that went on the market and followed my parameters. I could "favorite" the ones I liked and he would set up to go see them. I also cruised zillow, realtor.com, and a local classifieds page. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2480416 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:34:58 +0000 mrswilson2012 2480416@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We found the builders information on Redfin. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2480377 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 16:19:29 +0000 Alivoo01 2480377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We looked at the MLS listing on our realtor's site along with looking on Zillow.com. All houses we looked at were already on the market. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2479724 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:46:29 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2479724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They have a one primary site that lists all homes being sold here in Sweden - hemnet.se. We first saw it online, but we pretty much skipped past it until we saw it in the local paper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2479447 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:14:19 +0000 Littlebit7 2479447@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've found all of our housing on, of all places, Craigslist. I feel like 99% of Craigslist is crap but I've gotten really good at spotting for rent by owners. Our upper east side apt was craigslist! One tiny terrible picture looking out a window posted by a broker. And it was the most fantastic unicorn apartment of all time (1500 sq ft 2 bed prewar with a fireplace and a full floor for the price of a studio/1 bedroom. We stayed there 7 years). Our current place I also found on Craigslist. Listed by a broker, rented by an individual who I am now friends with!</p> <p>I feel like Craigslist takes daily scouring with a sharp eye to weed out the crap. There is a lot of fake crap esp in NYC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house/page/2#post-2479432 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:58:04 +0000 peachykeen 2479432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Another vote for Redfin! We bought through Redfin as well, and were pretty happy with them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479409 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:30:39 +0000 MrsKoala 2479409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Through our realtor. He got the scoop that it was going on the market and was able to show it to us before it was even listed. The neighborhood is one of the best in our town and if we hadn't had our realtor, we wouldn't have seen it in time. The next day when it was listed we put an offer in and there were two other buyers doing the same. Luckily, ours was strongest so we got it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479404 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:19:58 +0000 ValentineMommy 2479404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We found ours through our realtor. It had been on the market for 18+ months! We bought it for waaaaay under what they were asking lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479326 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:41:40 +0000 gingerbebe 2479326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Redfin for searching - we didn't use their realtor. We wanted a specific floorplan in a specific established neighborhood and just scanned Redfin to see if a house in that floorplan popped up. I saw our house just as it hit the MLS listing late on a Thursday night and knew from the photos it was the floorplan we wanted. I went to see it at the open house on Saturday and thought it was a good fit, so I had the realtor pop the lock on Sunday so DH could see it, and we put in an offer the next day or two. We said it was the easiest money our realtor made all year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479311 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:24:52 +0000 fussygal 2479311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: @FancyGem: @Portboston: Stories like your guys' are so fun and make me have hope that we will find the perfect house! Seems like fate that you found the house for you :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479303 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:18:12 +0000 Finfan 2479303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Realtor.com and set up showings with an agent a friend in the area we were moving to had used. The house we wound up buying, the realtor did find for us. She called a friend who has a bunch of listings and gave her our parameters and asked if she had anything with those specs. Well, it turned out she did but we hadn't looked at the house because it was $30,000 over our budget and had no photos on the listing. We wound up getting it for $ 25,000 less than the asking price. </p> <p>Our original realtor mostly works in County B and we were looking in neighboring County A, which is the primary focus of the other realtor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479213 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:55:19 +0000 autumnlove 2479213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were looking at the house across the street with our realtor when we saw the selling agent put out a sign. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479172 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:32:38 +0000 Smurfette 2479172@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a realtor. We got daily emails with new listings in our search area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479110 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:50:11 +0000 MenagerieMama 2479110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Redfin! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479100 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:44:32 +0000 Andrea 2479100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a realtor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479097 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:41:27 +0000 Miss Ariel 2479097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>While we did find a bunch of houses through Zillow the one we bought our realtor found instead. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479037 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:35:19 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2479037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Through our realtor. We initially passed on it because it wasn't in our desired developmemt. When the homes in our first choice development we wanted kept getting snatched up we decided to finally look at the house. As soon as I walked in I knew it was home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479034 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:31:47 +0000 MrsRoo 2479034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We found ours on realtor.com </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479028 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:24:16 +0000 Charm54 2479028@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mls.ca </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2479018 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:17:28 +0000 sapphire 2479018@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Stalked the Builder's website over and over until they listed a house in our price range. Besides that, we mostly used Redfin (and used Redfin as our realtor). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478826 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:09:14 +0000 FancyGem 2478826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were looking to build homes, but nothing seemed like the right fit for us. Our realtor asked us if we wanted to look at the builder next door and we said no. (We looked at them months ago, but it was out of our price range at the time) My husband called one day and we were surprised to find the house in our price range that someone backed out on. We rushed over and checked it out. It had everything we wanted. It was an inventory home, but since they hadn't started construction we were able to pick everything out (except the lot and floor plan). We got in at the right time because the prices went up drastically after we signed the contract. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478772 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:42:01 +0000 Portboston 2478772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I found ours online but we had a realtor as well. Our market is crazy so I was super on top of it. I viewed it the morning it listed and we had an offer in by that evening. They waited until the open house that weekend before accepting any offers and we were in competition with one other one. I wrote a letter to the sellers because we both had a boston terrier so that won them over. Thank goodness because it was the 4th home we were making an offer on and I was about to give up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478771 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:40:27 +0000 fussygal 2478771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rocker2014: lol, it's almost like drunk-buying stuff on Amazon at 2am, but way better!</p> <p>@yoursilverlining: Wow, that's a long time! I can be super picky so I have a feeling I'll be the same way about not fully trusting our realtor to know our wants/needs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478769 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:39:07 +0000 danda 2478769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Through our realtor. We had been looking for a while and he knew exactly what we wanted. Anytime anything close came on the market, he'd send us an instant email and we'd usually visit the property the same day it came on the market. The types of houses we were interested in generally were going under contract within a day or two so without him we would have missed out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478768 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:37:46 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 2478768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We found ours through Zillow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478765 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:33:43 +0000 bushelandapeck 2478765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I found it online...probably Redfin or Zillow. I called our realtor and we went to look at the house before they even had an open house. We put an offer in the same day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478760 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:30:05 +0000 Rocker2014 2478760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Drunk Trulia.com searching at 2am.</p> <p>It had been on the market for over 6 months and horribly overpriced. The price dropped the next morning, and our realtor, who I had emailed at 2am, called us at 9am to go to an open house that started at 10am. Our hangovers magically disappeared when we saw how great the house was for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478756 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:27:23 +0000 yoursilverlining 2478756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stalked my local MLS listing service every single day for 2+ years until I found what we were looking for. (We looked at many, many homes in that time!). Our realtor also sent us weekly emails, but I felt like only *I* really knew what I wanted, etc. so I kept on stalking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-you-find-your-house#post-2478752 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:20:12 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2478752@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used Realtor.com to go through a bunch of listings. Finally got a realtor and saw another house we liked in the neighborhood. It was short sale and we put an offer on it but got outbid. When that happened, we said we loved the location (location to town and the neighborhood) and we went a street over and bought the only other house that was for sale. </p>