Everyone who wants to buy real estate, especially in a coastal area, has an idea of the perfect property. Many during the current market think that a foreclosure or short-sale automatically means they are getting the best deal so they are asking for a "fixer-upper". The facts that those of us working in the Myrtle Beach area have discovered are a foreclosure or short-sale could be a new construction and if any foreclosure or short-sale was a purchase made during the "boom" in real estate they may be priced well above a similar property selling normally.
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Are there specific locations to find these great deal? And not the Carolina Forest area. Somewhere relatively closer to the ocean than Carolina Forest
Some foreclosures and brand new construction are the best deals at the moment. You just have to search outside of Carolina Forest.