[mreid]

Use Zillow, then find an agent to show you the homes you like.

Interesting story and the reason why you need a good agent, the wife and I are selling our property in NY and buying a house. We looked in Woodstock and found a few we thought would be nice. I screened a few agents and found one a really liked. She interviewed us for about a half hour and when we were in town, took us to three houses we found and two she found. One of them is not listed and was Bob Dylan’s first home and is currently owned by Donald Fagen. It was a very cool English arts and crafts home built in 1904. I loved it, wife not so much.

Anyway, you can do 90% of the work online, but you need a realtor to get the total picture and in most states access to the available homes.