BiggerPockets Find deals Foreclosures.

[Eric Betten]

Hello BP Community and hopefully admin, I have noticed that some of the foreclosure listings on your find deal sections are either not listed on other mainstream real estate sites or come up as already sold on sites like Foreclosure.com, Realtor.com or Zillow.com. How does one discern which foreclosures are still active and which ones have been sold? A BP realtor did tell me to watch out for fake listings, not just on the BP website but foreclosure websites in general. I had run into these problems with HUDhomes.com before I knew what BiggerPiockets was.  I am a newcomer starting this year so any tips on how to know if a foreclosure listed is in fact available or not or other resources I can use to reliably cross reference would be very much appreciated. 

Thanks for your time, BP community. Keep hustling the good hustle.