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identifying reposessions
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Does it have to be a repossession? How much extra will you pay for one?Been away for a while.0
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Running_Horse wrote: »Does it have to be a repossession? How much extra will you pay for one?
Obviously not only a repossession, hilarious joke.
What I am trying to do is find out alternative search strategies.
I am wondering if there is a way to identify repossessions across a wide area in much the same way as it is easy to quickly identify auctions because they are listed separately to rightmove.
Searches for a specific price bracket across a very wide area on rightmove returns masses of results and I am only interested in non-citylocations. Unfortunately there is no boolean "not" search on rightmove, so you can't say Hampshire NOT Basingstoke NOT Southampton for example.
So you have to include a wide area e.g. within 25 miles or just conduct lots of specific searches on specific towns/villages. Obviously as one person suggested I could conduct all these specific searches and then get them set up to email me every day with properties in those areas in a particular price bracket. That way I only have to do the miriad of mini searches once.
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Not bored. Just still confused why it has to be a repossession.Been away for a while.0
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Running_Horse wrote: »Not bored. Just still confused why it has to be a repossession.
The reason I would search for them is because reposessions in my area are significantly cheaper than other property - on the few rare occasions in the last couple of years when they have come up in rural areas.
Obviously if one entered into a bidding war it might be different.
I asked how to identify them, if indeed there is a way to do this that I haven't thought of, in much the same way that you can identify houses at auction very easily.
I did not say "I am only looking at repossessions whatsoever in my house search".0 -
Oh no! just been trying out the save search email thing and apparently:
"Sorry, you already have 10 searches saved and this is the maximum we allow"
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Set up another account with another email address = another batch of searches you can create / save
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