Due to some technical issues that we’re currently trying to resolve, we’ve had to put the public foreclosure listings on hold temporarily; in the interim, if you’re interested in seeing the foreclosure listings for a specific area, please contact us and let us know what area you’re interested in and we can send you those listings directly or set you up with an automatic search to email them to you regularly.
For those who are interested, the specific problem is that MRIS, the local multiple listing company through whom we were posting those foreclosure listings, recently added some features to their software, including the ability for users to tag properties that they might be interested in. The problem is that for public listings like these, that “feature” was more of a bug, since there is no way for their software to distinguish between the hundreds of different anonymous visitors who were reviewing the listings; as a result, everyone’s “favorite” properties were all mixed together, so that everyone could see each others’ listings and there was no way to know which ones were yours.
Unfortunately, there’s currently no simple way to turn those features off, and the confusion among the people who were contacting us after they saw other people’s listings in “their” list was just too much to deal with, so for now we’ve had to suspend the public listings. It’s a perfect example of unintended consequences–MRIS had simply never thought about the possibility that more than one person would be viewing a particular posted set of listings–and we’re busy working with them to get this resolved in a way that will let us resume those postings, hopefully this week.
Again, if you’re interested in seeing the foreclosure listings for a specific area, please contact us and let us know what area you’re interested in.
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