All Forum Posts by: Tom MacDonald

Can anyone tell me how I can find out details on how many houses/what types of houses were sold in a certain area in within a particular time frame?

Thanks!

Can anyone recommend a good realtor/buyers agent for the south Houston areas of Alvin /Pearland / League City / Friendswood?

Thanks!

Tom

If you're in a sellers market and you're looking at the MLS, I would guess that it's going to be very difficult (borderline impossible?) to find a deal that will make a real profit. Auctions might produce some results, but are you able to walk through the property before buying? If not, and you're a new investor, how would you know if the house were really a good deal? Seems like you might want to investigate other means of identifying distressed properties and distressed sellers (look into acquiring lists, perhaps? direct mail campaign?)

just my 2c :)

I'm actually looking in my hometown area, the suburbs between Houston and Galveston.  Can I ask how you're searching for your deals?

Noobie question - I'm searching on Realtor.com and I see a house listed but it has a red tag by the name that says 'pending.'  What does this mean, exactly?  If I really want the property should I contact the realtor and submit an offer?

Thanks!
Tom

Wow great progress, Sohail!  Congrats on putting your first one under contract.  I am landscape architect/urban designer and am (working to start) investing in Texas.  This thread has provided some great info!

Thanks Alex.  Pocketdeed.com doesn't seem to recognize my filter inputs - when I tell it to search 'League City, Texas' or '77573' it comes back with properties from all over the county.  Perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

Also, I currently live in Australia, and for some reason you can't view loop.net from here!  So last week I purchased a VPN service just to get access to loop.net, although I haven't gotten it working yet.  I'll be trying to sort it out tonight.

That's a good idea, Meghan, I'll try that.

Hi BP, I am researching my market, and I want to find all 8-30 unit apartment buildings in my area.  It doesn't matter if they are currently for listed for sale or not, I just want to understand what's out there.  I have asked my real-estate agent to supply a list, but I'm wondering if this information is publicly available some where as a database.

I guess alternatively I could just drive around my target area on google maps street view and make my own map, but this would take quite a while...

Cheers,
Tom

Mario, this is excellent info.  For the record both my partner and I are US citizens, he lives in Houston and I live in Melbourne.  I will think about your comments and check out the links.

Thanks for the response!
Tom