The online real estate listings around here are so far superior to anything a newspaper can do, it is hard to believe there are ANY ads in the papers.
In an hour, I can look at color pics of the outside and inside of dozens of houses. I can select/sort them by price, acreage, square footage, number of bedrooms and baths, length of time for sale, etc. I can also look at satellite shots of the property and the neighborhood. This allows me to immediately narrow the list of available properties to what I am looking for. Never have to get out of my ‘pajamas.’ And, if I want to be nosy and look at the inside and yards of the multi-million dollar mansions along the lake, no problem.
Newspapers? No way.
“Never look at a newspaper again.” Agreed. And with city-data.com and other such engines you can find out about the weather, median home prices, how local property is held (mortgages, rentals, etc.) schools, population age, income, ethnicity, what people do for a living, etc., etc., etc.
I’m planning to flee Mordor-by-the-Sea next year and move back to America. It’s still there, I saw it with my own eyes on a visit back to the Midwest in May. The online real estate search engines and sites like city-data.com are making the planning possible.
Never look at a newspaper again. I loved the sound of that so much I had to repeat it. No more neighbors stealing the paper, no more soggy papers, no more papers in the bushes or under the neighbor’s car. No more dealing with hostile and rude indifferent customer service people when calling to complain about any of the above.
No more putting up with the liberal Party line on the op-ed page and the same liberal oriented news service stories from the same handful of Old Media outlets.
I love it. Hoping to see the former news hacks standing by the on ramps holding hand lettered signs reading: “plese giv, hungri, no latte for 2 week” !
Past freerepublic one of my favorite sites is the local real estate site for checking those multimillion dollar mansions.
Generally, I’m looking for bad color schemes and misuses of animal prints. It’ a whole lot of fun.
Seriously, though, the website was amazing when I started my condo search. There were two complexes that I had no idea were condos when I started my search and I got them by entering my requirements. I may not have thought to look for them in the paper. I have always loved the apartments in one of them. Now it is on the short list for a purchase.