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You don't have to commit to a Realtor just because you call for information. If you're not in a contract with an agent, call the agent on the sign. If the agent asks 'if you're working with an agent', please don't assume the agent is pushing to get you in his/her car. I'm sure most states are like VA...we are required to ask if you have an agent or not. It helps us determine whether we can help you or if we have to refer you back to your agent.
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Originally Posted by jon-jon
Sometimes just want to do a simple drive-by of a property after doing search from an MLS. However the results typically don't include street address. So all of the time I have to engage a realtor to help me just to locate the listing property which I found myself online.
Is there a way to find out the address of the MLS listing for a drive-by with out actually committing to a realtor?
Some clients don't want their address shown, usually in higher price ranges where they're concerned about burglaries, or more private communities where they don't want to inconvenience neighbors with "unwanted" traffic.
There are also agents who don't show it in ads, and sometimes won't give it out over the phone, because certain real estate trainers use a strategy of "get them into the office", and they think that allowing people to drive by contradicts with this. My theory is let them drive by, so I don't have to drive them around only to find out they don't like any of the neighborhoods - if they're interested, they'll call.
That doesn't always work. Here in VA, if the seller doesn't allow us to show their address over the MLS, we have to honor that request.
That's an option here, but I've never known anyone to exercise it. If you want to actually sell your home, you have to be willing to put it out there, with the exception of certain exclusive areas or price ranges, where making it harder to get information can ironically be appealing to the type of buyers you are looking for.
I didn't know there were entire MLSs that don't publish addresses. That seems silly to me. If that's the case, you aren't going to get those address from anywhere except a realtor. Period.
I don't know where you are looking but the counties served by the Greater Hudson Valley MLS service are unable to display property addresses alongside the MLS numbers. I called, I complained and no one listened. The short answer from my MLS was: There isn't a demand for it so we aren't adding it. When I asked how to fix it I was given an even shorter answer: GFY. So until the MLS board changes it's ways don't expect a lot of MLS' to display property addresses.
They say there isn't a demand. That's another way of saying you have to go to a realtor to find it so they can also show you some other houses you didn't originally want to see.
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Originally Posted by sarmike
What I did when I needed to find a address is simply google the MLS number.
Be careful with google. We tried that and some of the houses were 2 or 3 blocks away from where google showed us. They have corrected this now, but a while back we googled, just playing around on the puter, the directions to Nashville, Tn. from here. I'm in western Kentucky, maybe an hour from Nashville via I-24, which goes right by my town. Google had me going some 2 lane roads up almost to Marion, Illinois, then get on I-24 and take it to Nashville! lol
No address??? So do they want to sell the house or not???
Sometimes there are reluctant sellers. Sometimes they just want to protect their privacy and with hold the address and make showings by appt only. However if you check several online realtors sites you usually will find one that lists the address unless it is not in the MLS at all. Once you do find a street lcoation you can do a virtual drive by using Google Earth. We were able to eliminate several homes from our searches in advance using Google Earth. Saved us a lot of time especially since we were looking in an area 500 miles away and only had one weekend to pick and purchase the house.
I have a rental house listed with realtor and my tenants say people, including agents stop by frequently without notice and knock on the door asking to look inside. That would **** me off. I guess this would be a good reason people would not want the address listed, although it does hinder the sales process. I agree it would be nice (as a buyer) to have the address listed.
Does the listing show the subdivision name? Start there. Enlarge the photo of the house front on your screen to see if you can see the house number on the house. Our tax assessor website lets you search with partial info, you could specify the subdivision and the house number and it will bring up all the "123" house numbers in the subdivision. Google earth street view is great, too.
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