MLS property online alerts - which site do you use?

[Sam Leon]

For me I signed up for FloridaMoves.com as well as Realtor.com. Both have it's pros and cons. I like FloridaMoves mostly because it allows for custom search by zip codes, so if there is a specific neighborhood I am interested in, I can use zip codes and ask for alerts when a property within my strike price range etc...are available.

I request a daily email compiling all for that day, and look through it once a day.

What I am curious is for those who do not have direct access to it, what site do you use to be kept on the changes to MLS?

Some specifics I am looking for:

(1) Seems these sites are running 1 or 2 days late on the listing. Say the listing is available on Monday, I get an alert for it on Wednesday, and won't look at it till Wednesday night. I am already behind by then.

(2) I can't seem to find one that will allow me to put in a narrower search then zip code. If I can set up automatic alerts by subdivision or community names, or block names, that would make it much easier...are there any out there?

(3) I can only set up alerts when a property becomes AVAILABLE, as in new listing, or when the price changes. I cannot find out that would tell me when the "status" of a property has changed, say from AVAILABLE to PENDING or from PENDING to SOLD or whatever. It would be really helpful to know if a status has changed, granted, some realtor don't even change statuses, I see many pending properties listed as available and it's only when you call they say they have a contract on it. Recently I had a short sale property I lost out on, asking 230K, I put in an offer at 200K cash and didn't get it. What I didn't know, was for whatever reason the deal fell through, may be a failure of inspection, or financing, I have no idea, and the property went to foreclosure, and was sold to someone for 180K in auction. I had submitted a backup offer to said property, which the agent asked for but never had the seller execute, only to sit on. Could not figure out the logic to it, but had I knew the property went from PENDING back to AVAILABLE or to FORECLOSED, I may be able to do something in retrospect.

So just curious to what others are doing on keeping up with the MLS.