From the course: Real Estate: Navigating the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

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How you can excel in your MLS searches

How you can excel in your MLS searches

- [Instructor] Besides including your buying criteria, here are pointers on organizing effective MLS searches. Identify all the zip codes in your market then organize the zip codes into farms. Farms are simply the areas of focus or expertise. Be aware that most MLSs are already organized into specific areas. Consider using these geographical areas as your farms because agents are familiar with where they are located. Use these powerful types of searches to find potential deals on the MLS. The first one is keyword searches. These provide targeted and flexible results. Let's take a minute to look at the top 50 MLS keywords for real estate investors, which you have as a resource for this course. Here, you will see a list of useful terms to find distress property listings on the MLS. You will see terms such as inherited, investor special, preforeclosure, as-is, mold. Make sure you set up the MLS keyword search as contained and…

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