My wife and I have been looking for 3 years now. Robert has a great point, things are going so quickly you need to contact the listing agent and do it yourself sometimes, we've done just that. Houses around here in our price range are selling within a day or 2 of being listed. If we relied on zillow or one of those sites, the houses are under agreement sometimes before zillow gets it. We are set up thru an agent to get the listings the moment they are listed, it helps, trust me. The problem in my area is the days of making an offer below asking price are over, offers being put in are at and ABOVE asking price, so it's can be a tricky game. Have your preappeoval ready, a down payment ready, and be prepared to make an offer literally on the spot. If you don't get the emails from your agent with the listing as they hit the market, forget looking in this market. Good luck, dont get discouraged. We don't have to move, we just want to. We've looked at probably 40 houses in the last couple years, so it can be a process.