If you ask anyone doing serious house hunting in Metairie
how they are going about it, there are few who won’t point to the web (nationally,
88% use it) as at least one of the top two most useful tools (their Metairie Realtor® is the other one:
87%).
Yes, yard signs are helpful, and its first cousin, the Open
House, is another (they’re related since it’s hard to imagine an Open House
without a yard sign or two). Both come into the house hunting picture a little
less than half the time, according to NAR® statistics. A quarter of
house hunting expeditions also rely on one or more online video sites, but I
think that’s just because online listings frequently link to those to display
virtual tours. To a prospective buyer, it may not even be evident that a
different site has been used. In fact, who cares?
What is important—and
what shoppers who are actively embarked on an Metairie house hunting foray do care about—is what is the best way to
find the Metairie homes for sale that best fit their requirements. Along with
size and price guidelines, usually location turns out to be a leading
specification—sometimes the leading
spec. Most of the online search tools let you enter location in a form that
allows “city, state, neighborhood, or zip code.” Sometimes, “county” is
allowed.
Especially for anyone planning to move to an area that is
largely unfamiliar, it’s here that assumptions can be misleading. Of course,
house hunting using a sizeable “City” is likely to deliver unwieldy results. If
you entered “Los Angeles,” for instance, the difference between a nice little parcel
on Mount Lukens (elevation 5,000+ feet) and one by Point Dume (elevation zero) makes
such an entry all but useless. “Neighborhood” will usually yield much more
meaningful results—but only for those who are already familiar with the area.
This is where entering a “Zip Code” might seem to be the
most likely way to get the house hunting results you’re looking for. Sometimes
it might. Yet a word of caution is in order—this is where a little practical zip
code knowledge could come in handy. A zip isn’t always as cozy an area as you
might think. For instance:
·
Towns and cities sport different zip code
“overlays.” More than one town name may be in a single zip (but that zip might
not cover the entirety of any of them).
·
Many zips can share the same town name (for
instance, Austin has 78).
·
If commute time and/or fuel economy is an issue,
entering 89049 (Tonopah, NV) might not be helpful. It covers 10,000 square
miles, which makes it slightly larger than Maryland.
·
On the other hand, some zips cover just one
building.
But if you do decide to use the zip code to specify a search
area, steer clear of “48222.” It’s the one that delivers mail to passing ships.
Also, if you’re interested in Centralia PA, don’t bother looking for its zip; just
enter ‘Centralia.’ (It’s the only town that has no zip code).
No matter what online search method you use, when the house
hunting destination is in the Metairie vicinity, there won’t be any more foolproof
way to locate the home you’re looking for than to give me a call. I’ll put
together a list that takes all your specifications into account…after which we
can set out for a real-life, non-virtual
tour!
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