# Buying a house in Buffalo?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 3, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buying-a-house-in-buffalo/3005 "2005-10-03T17:45:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buying-a-house-in-buffalo/3005/21 "2005-10-04T12:28:19Z")

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> [@Jack](#):
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> How do I find information on a house that isn’t necessarily on the market? Like a survey of the land, the title information, and what its apraised at?

Call the town’s assesor’s office. It’s also pretty easy to find online (although they can also tell you if you call) what the house sold for and when. The appraiser can tell you when/for how much the house was appraised at for tax purposes, but that usually has little to nothing to do with the market value of the house.

For instance:  
[http://www.amherst.ny.us/govt/assessor/assessor.asp](http://www.amherst.ny.us/govt/assessor/assessor.asp)  
[http://www.domania.com/](http://www.domania.com/)

Poopra: Yeah, if you find a realtor you like working with then I guess it would be helpful to have a buyer’s agent to find houses for you and help you with the process and all that. Haha I guess I’ve just been soured by my bad one. And what I mean about her getting my money is that they split the commission with the seller’s agent, which ultimately comes out of what I pay the seller. As for them charging a fee, you’re right in that they don’t.

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buying-a-house-in-buffalo/3005/22 "2005-10-04T12:49:40Z")

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2nd link is blocked @ work… but do you happen to know the address for the Akron NY site?

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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buying-a-house-in-buffalo/3005/23 "2005-10-04T12:56:23Z")

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I don’t see any assessor’s office for Akron, but here is the village clerk. It looks like the clerk would be who to contact for assessments in Akron:

[http://www.erie.gov/akron/village\_gov\_clerk.asp](http://www.erie.gov/akron/village_gov_clerk.asp)

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**Author:** ![Zer0DazE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zer0daze/32/7624_2.png) [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buying-a-house-in-buffalo/3005/24 "2005-10-04T13:04:36Z")

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> [@newman](#):
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> i know its out of your league, but there was a bitching house on elmwood for 150K. it was huge. right near “we never close” or “weiner close”… or “ver close” depending on what part of the sign happens to be burned out that week.

when i lived there it was “we ne lose”

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buying-a-house-in-buffalo/3005/25 "2005-10-04T13:33:46Z")

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still no luck online, I’ll just have to call.

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