I’ve received a number of calls from people looking at homes they’ve found on Realtor.com or Zillow who just aren’t having great luck with their searches. These people are striking out because there are multiple problems with trying to search for homes on your own. Today I want to address this topic and provide some insight on how you can have a successful home search and, eventually, a successful home purchase. One of the biggest benefits of hiring a licensed, professional real estate agent (like myself) is that we can assist you with this process from beginning to end, starting by filtering out false listings on those popular sites.