FORECLOSURE LISTINGS

 

 

The services offered by Foreclosure represent a tremendous value for your money. With over 1.5 million property listings available, state-of-the-art features that make finding and previewing those properties very easy, and a complete Training and Learning Center, Foreclosure earns our highest marks.

To start with, a property listings service should deliver a large and up-to-date inventory of properties. To its credit, Foreclosure offers over 1.5 million property listings, including foreclosures, pre-foreclosures, sheriff sales, bankruptcies, FSBO's (For Sale By Owner), and Tax Liens. The database is updated twice a day, every day. This gives you a wide, up-to-date selection of properties to choose from.

Next, Foreclosure makes it easy for you to find and locate the homes you're interested in. Foreclosure rises above their competition by offering easy-to-use search options. You can hunt for homes by zip code, city, price range, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, or specific listing id if you have one. The results are shown to you in a list accompanied with an aerial map of the properties. The mapping function is impressive and graphically shows you where the houses are in a community. For more detailed information, you simply click on the house listing and you are shown the complete information for the home, including address, square footage, property description, and even a photo of the residence.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Want to know community information for the property you're looking at? School information - grade school, middle school, and high schools for the home? How about forecasted monthly payments? It's all just one click away, including contact information for each particular house.

In addition to the property listing information, Foreclosure gives you access to a host of training materials so you can be as successful as possible. They constantly schedule "webinars" where you can watch, listen, and participate in live training opportunities. If you can't make the scheduled time, Foreclosure offers "on-demand" webinars that you can watch and listen to whenever you want - on your schedule. They have a variety of articles, ebooks, calculators, and even offer one-on-one coaching to make sure you're making the most out of your opportunities.

Foreclosure offers a free 1-week trial period for you to use their services. There's no limitation on what you get during that free trial; everything that is available to paid members is yours too. If you decide to continue with the service after the seven days, you are billed $39.80/month (if you opt for a 12-month subscription, the price drops to $24.90/month). The free trial is really a great way to try the service with no cost or obligation. If you take advantage of what Foreclosure has to offer, the price is very reasonable and you can easily cancel the service at any time.

Foreclosure delivers everything you could want in a property listing service. A large and constantly updated database, multiple search options with state-of-the-art property listings, plus in-depth training materials to help you succeed, all combine to earn Foreclosure our highest rating.

 

 

Alexis McGee is the co-founder of this site and brings 20 years of real estate industry experience to the table. Foreclosures is laid out in a professional and insightful manner that allows the user to really get a feel for the foreclosure market.

This site is not cheap, but the resources are incredible. The cost is $49.95 a month - easily the most expensive site in our review. There is a seven day free trial, the caveat being that you still have to put in your credit card information and cancel within seven days so the card is not charged the $49.95.

However, for that monthly fee you have access to over 5 million property listings - three times as many as its closest competitor. Foreclosures also offers a huge amount of helpful information, including how-to guides, training programs, webinars, hands-on tutoring, a newsletter, and more.

Customer Service can be reached via email, two phone numbers, fax, and a mailing address. When contacted, the staff was well-informed and helpful in answering our questions.

Foreclosures is truly a complete foreclosure listings service. If you can afford the higher monthly fee, you will definitely get your money out of this service.

 

 

Realty Trac is a trusted, comprehensive and convenient marketplace for homeowners, investors and real estate professionals. The site offers almost a million property listings to its members, and a variety of additional materials to members and visitors.

Realty Trac offers its members listings of homes that include pre-foreclosures, foreclosure auctions, bank owned foreclosure, for sale by owner, resales, and new home listings. The site offers a one week free trial with a submission of a valid credit card. After one week, if the subscription isn't canceled, the card will be charged $49.95 a month. Like the higher-rated Foreclosure service, Realty Trac offers a mapping feature to members, showing available properties in an overhead presentation. The map displays locations of homes that are pre-foreclosures, auctions, bank owned, government owned, for sale by owner, resale or new homes in an easy to decipher manner.

Realty Trac also has a helpful learning page that is categorized into different sections. With this you can easily find quick answers to a variety of subjects. Also available for purchase are ebooks, coaching, seminars, audios, videos, manuals, and mortgage services. Customer support is knowledgeable and can be reached via email, live chat, mail and fax.

 

 

Foreclosure Data is a no-frills service with a database of over a million properties and numerous helpful links. It is easy to navigate and all the services are displayed in a convenient layout.

On the homepage of the site there is a property search. A user name and an email address have to be submitted in order to view the properties.

All the services can be accessed through a one time membership fee of $39.95. If you're not pleased with the service, the entire fee is refundable within the first eight weeks of purchase. However, once you're a member, you have access to over 1.2 million property listings. The listings are nationwide and updated daily. The site displays both bank and government foreclosures. The site offers a sample listing of foreclosed properties - but the pertinent information, such as loan amount, assessed value, address and the specifications on the home - is not available until a membership has been purchased.

Another feature of this site is that it includes a step by step process that describes how to go through the purchase of foreclosed properties. There is also a series of financial calculators to help you analyze the benefits of buying a particular home.

Unfortunately, the only way to contact Foreclosure Data is through email. There is no phone number for any questions.

A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page and more customer support options, would benefit Foreclosure Data greatly. Still, for a one-time fee, this site offers a good option for your dollar.

 

 

Foreclosure Free Search is a very friendly site that offers information on foreclosed properties throughout the United States. In addition to foreclosed homes, the site also lists properties in pre-foreclosure, for sale by owners, and bankruptcies.

Foreclosure Free Search offers a one week free trial of the site. After the trial week the cost is $9.95 a week. Membership can be canceled at any time. For visitors, Foreclosure Free Search displays actual listings of foreclosed property - minus pertinent information, such as actual location, current photos, etc. this information is revealed to paid members. This is a good feature to get the feel of what the site has to offer.

Foreclosure Free Search provides listings of pre-foreclosures, for sale by owners, and bankruptcies. For new visitors, Foreclosure Free Search provides a video demo that demonstrates the various features of the site. In addition to property listings there are books and online training available, plus email alerts on properties. There are a variety of free tools for visitors to use such as home loan calculators, renting vs. buying, mortgage refinance calculators, biweekly loan mortgages and many more. Customer Support is available via email, phone, or fax.

 

 

Bargain Network Homes is a very plain and simple web site. There is a home page with a link to join. The homepage has a map of the United States that allows a visitor to see foreclosed properties available in any zip code.

This website advertises over 700,000 listings available to view, but that pales in comparison with some of the higher-rated services. The enjoyable feature of this site is the ability to search the United States for foreclosed properties. The site provides visitors the price, description, and general location of the property, but the specific address is reserved for members.

The search page is broken down into different categories; pre-foreclosures, foreclosures, for sale by owner, for sale by realtor, and online auctions. There are a variety of search options available, including zip code radius, price, bedrooms and bathrooms. Many of the properties that are for sale have photos available. Unfortunately, due to the layout and navigation of the site, visitors have to "dig" to find all the options available to them.

Membership is $39.80 a month plus a $1.25 a month for their buying tools. Membership can be canceled at anytime by calling a toll-free number. There is a one week free trial; your credit card is charged a $1.00 and then credited back to your credit card. The trial has to be canceled in order to avoid being charged for membership. Although the site contains useful information on properties for visitors, there is no preview of the tools that are available.

 

 

Foreclosure Pass is an easy website to navigate. The home page does a good job previewing the services offered. The homepage does a great job of offering enough items to wet one's curiosity to surf the rest of the site. Our biggest gripe is the number of home listings - 300,000 - is less than 25% of those offered by the top services in our review.

The website cost is a one time fee of $39.50, which represents a lifetime membership. One attractive feature of the website is that it allows users to key in a zip code to see how many foreclosed homes are in the given area. The actual property addresses are not given, but the price and description of the home is presented.

Once you purchase a membership, you then have access to the member's only area. The member's area offers further information to help members understand the foreclosure market, with immediate access to information designed to help you succeed at buying and selling houses at auctions.

Foreclosure Pass backs their lifetime membership with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, good for the first 8 weeks of purchase. Unfortunately, like the other one-time fee site in our review, customer service is only offered by email- there are no phone numbers available.

Although we enjoyed the layout and navigation that this site offers, you can receive far more property listings for the same or less cost with our top-rated selections.

 

 

Realty Store has an efficient website that is pleasing to the eye. The site offers nearly 500,000 property listings that are in different stages of the foreclosure process. Unfortunately, this is less than one-third of the listings available in our top-rated selections.

Realty Store has listings of bank foreclosures, hud homes, pre-foreclosures, and land auctions. The site has a one week trial membership available for $1.00. This allows the user full access for 7 days. The full membership fee is $39.80 a month. If the trial membership is not canceled the full membership will be automatically charged.

Realty Store offers a couple of nice features to supplement its property listings. A ten chapter overview of the foreclosure process and a glossary of terms is a valuable tool for members and visitors of this site. Also, Realty Store provides convenient options for financing through their lending partners if that is a need.

Customer service prefers to be contacted by email, although a phone number is provided if the email is not responded to within twenty four hours. Realty Store is a member of the Better Business Bureau.

Although the website is clean and easy to use, the site doesn't compare to the top-rated services. For the money we'd expect a much larger selection of properties and better supplemental information.