Everett Herald on Redfin
Everett Herald, Buying a house for less:
“I want to do this myself, I don’t want someone telling me what I like,” said Ward, a 42-year-old freelance video and film producer. “A couple of good photographs and a description can really narrow things down and all that’s available on the Internet.”
So Ward bypassed the regular real estate route and tried Redfin, an online brokerage company that offers no field agents and a deeply discounted price.
He said he and his wife saved $9,000 on the purchase of their Mountlake Terrace home, money they put toward new appliances.
There were hiccups: The Redfin people didn’t update him as often as he would have liked during the sale. He had to have access to a fax machine, and there were some problems with the signatures becoming fuzzy from copying.
About the hiccups, we are striving to put more and more of the transaction online. I know that I desperately want the days to end where you need a fax machine to buy a home.