1) Search for homes

Do a search on RealtyStore.com using Advanced Search, selecting Pre-Foreclosure (Lis Pendens) and Pre-Foreclosure (NOD) checkboxes in your search criteria.

2) Work with a Buyer Agent

Select a Preferred Partner from those listed in the Property Summary page, and let them know that you're interested in this property.

3) Contact the Owner

I know what you're thinking. November 30th is coming at us faster than a Mac truck, and you're wondering if you'll have time to close on a house before the First-Time Homebuyer Federal Tax Credit expires.

Like the cash-for-clunkers program that swept the nation earlier this year, the Federal Tax Credit has generated a flurry of sales activity as homebuyers hurry to benefit from the up to $8,000 incentive.

And now we're only a couple of months away from the end. Or are we?

Santa Barbara, CA August 30, 2009 -- RealtyStore (www.realtystore.com), the nation's leading provider of foreclosure listings, released its year-to-date California Foreclosure Report for 2009.

Santa Barbara, CA July 14, 2009 -- RealtyStore (www.realtystore.com) recorded 6,906 Notices of Trustee Sale (NTS) in Oregon year to date; nearly double the figure from the first half of 2008, and more than triple that for the same period in 2007. Such notices are posted when a property is formally scheduled for public auction through foreclosure proceedings.

Overlooked signs the U.S. housing market is turning

SAN FRANCISCO - In the Sacramento Delta suburbs east of San Francisco - where home prices soared and fell as viciously as anywhere in the country - a housing market rebound is feverishly under way.