{"id":1572,"date":"2013-03-24T16:53:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T20:08:21","slug":"what-online-home-searches-lack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/what-online-home-searches-lack\/","title":{"rendered":"What online home searches lack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The human connection.<\/p>\n<p>Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and all the other online websites for searching homes, have helped home buyers find properties faster and easier. But what they don&#8217;t provide is someone to talk to.<\/p>\n<p>Buying or selling a house is one of the biggest transactions most people will complete in their lives.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Quality real estate agents can help you above and beyond the online searches in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help negotiate prices and terms<\/li>\n<li>Provide expert local advice<\/li>\n<li>Guide buyers and sellers through the many obstacles in home ownership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Online searches are great\u00a0places to start your\u00a0home search or even when selling your home. Be careful though, most sites don&#8217;t have the most up-to-date information.\u00a0Here are some things to look out for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Outdated information<\/strong><br \/>\nHouses come and go all the time and many real estate websites don&#8217;t offer the most up-to-date information. Buyers often waste their time looking at houses that are already in contract with another buyer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home values are estimated<\/strong><br \/>\nEstimates usually don&#8217;t take into account the different neighborhoods, conditions or other criteria when providing\u00a0a value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A real estate agent can provide you the most accurate and up-to-date information available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human connection. Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and all the other online websites for searching homes, have helped home buyers find properties faster and easier. But what they don&#8217;t provide is someone to talk to. Buying or selling a house is one of the biggest transactions most people will complete in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintaford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}