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No. We work with many investors who only purchase one property at a time and use our service only until they find and close on that deal. They cancel and then return later when they are ready for the next deal.

To keep our prices low and affordable for all, we do not currently offer a free trial. There are no membership contracts; you can just pay month-to-month as you go. You can cancel and re-join at any time. You are also fully protected by our 30-day money-back 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you aren’t happy with our service, just let us know within the first 30 days, and we’ll send you a prompt refund.

Investway currently serves the Dallas area. For details on which counties that includes, please see our blog post on “What Areas Does Investway Cover?”

We derive our data directly from the local REALTOR’s MLS in the areas that we currently serve. Data is “live” and updated several times daily. For more details on where our data comes from, please see our blog post “Where Does Investway Get Its Data?”

MLS data is “live” and updated several times daily.

While there is some information which we don’t display such as security codes, agent to agent remarks, agent contact details, etc., all the MLS property data you need to find and make a decision is there.

A comparative market analysis, also known as a comparable, or comp, gives you true market data to compare property and determine values. There are two types of market analysis; both are critical in understanding the market. A competitive market analysis shows what is currently on the market for sale. This helps determine market supply and how a property you want to sell “competes” with other for-sale property. A comparative market analysis shows what has recently sold—important in establishing what the market was willing to pay for similar property in the recent past. Investway’s comps include actives (currently for sale), solds, and expireds which will provide you all the data you need to make reasonable analysis of property value.

After you hit “submit” on a comp, you should get a message that says your comps are sent. Once you get this notice, your comps have left our servers and are on their way to your inbox. If there is a delay of more than a minute or two, check your junk email folder.

To avoid future emails going to your junk folder, be sure to add the following addresses to your “safe senders” list:

comps@investway.com (for comp reports)
deals@investway.com (for email alerts of listings)
service@investway.com (for customer service communications)

If your comps didn’t even make it to your “junk” folder, then it is most likely that your Email Service Provider (ESP) flagged the email as SPAM, and never sent it to you. Mail providers are constantly changing and trying to improve their spam filtering, so it is possible that you were receiving your comps just fine until changes were made by your ESP. For more info on how to solve problems related to your ESP, check out this blog post “We’re at the Mercy of the ISP Gods”

Our most trusted email provider that regularly delivers comps without issue is gmail.com. If your email provider is not delivering our comps, consider creating a free gmail account.

Why do we have to deliver comps via email? Per MLS Licensing Rules and Regulations, we are required to email you comps. We are not allowed to link to them directly on our website.

Yes. Contact us and tell us what you have in mind. Each situation is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Yes. When submitting a comp, you are asked which style report you want. Select the  simple line-item report. Select “landscape” mode on your printer, then print.

Our MLS data may contain up to a five year history. The amount of historical data varies based on the data our MLS provider provides.

Yes! We are a licensed brokerage. To submit offers, you may email service@investway.com for help in submitting an offer.

Investway accounts are limited to one email address per account. If you are trying to have comp reports emailed to a work and home address, or if you are trying to share comps with partners, you can sign up for a shared email account or use an email group forwarding feature. Most of the big free online email services allow you to do this. You can find more information on how to set this up here:

http://www.emailquestions.com/gmail/362-automatically-forward-all-e-mail-your-gmail-account.html
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Due to agency and data licensing issues, our service agreement is between the member and Investway only. Any new members would need to register for their own account and agree to the terms of service posted on our site. As for partners and/or assistants, just be sure you trust them! Your private information, including some sensitive billing information, is accessible to whomever logs into your account. In addition, anyone using your account is able to change your account preferences, alter/delete your saved searches, and make changes to your account.

Probably because your comp report maxed out. If you look towards the top of the report, you may see this message: “Your report produced more than 250 property listings. Results are limited to the first 250 results.” Comp reports are limited to 250 total properties per report, including active, sold, and expired property. A cap of 250 keeps our database running efficiently, which keeps our members happy. A meaningful comp report can have as little as 5 and as many as 50 properties. Any report that has more than 250 total results means you need to better segment your report by size, age, or location. On comp reports, we prioritize sold property first, then active, then expired, so keep that in mind if you aren’t seeing any active or expired listings, as well.

Yes. We can put you in contact with one of our partner agents. Simply contact us for more information.

In short, yes, you may use any REALTOR. We are a licensed real estate brokerage, and we exclusively work with real estate investors, and we want your business. However, we don’t force you to use us as your agent. You can use our service and opt to work with another agent if you desire.

There is one exception: you may not have an exclusive buyer representation agreement with another REALTOR and use our service. If you have an exclusive agreement with another agent, then, naturally, your agent should be the one providing you with real estate information.

We are allowed under MLS rules and regulation to provide our data and service to “clients” and “potential clients.” Once you sign an exclusive buyer agency contract with another agent, you cease to be qualified as a “potential client,” and we can’t provide our service to you. Exclusive agency agreements usually aren’t a problem with most investors, since most don’t like to sign them.

The bottom line, you aren’t obligated to use us to purchase or sell your property, but if you do sign a buyer representation agreement with another agent, you should let us know, and we will need to cancel your service. This does not apply to listing agreements, as we exclusively work as a buyer agency.

Yes. Investway provides the name of the listing agent on the property detail page. From there, you can visit your local state’s Real Estate Commission’s public website and perform a search on the listing agent’s name to acquire his/her contact info.

That said, we would appreciate the opportunity to earn your business and work your offer. Our Agent Partners are highly qualified to help you create offers and close the deal on a property.

You need to pull a comp report on that property in order to see the sales price and date sold. Due to MLS licensing restrictions, we are limited in the ways we display data.

You can view a list of expireds as part of a comp report. MLS licensing rules and regulations prohibit us from providing you a downloadable or searchable expired listings report.

Only the listing agent and listing office know the listing expiration date while a property is still active. The expiration date of a listed property is not widely available to MLS-subscribers.

MLS rules prohibit us from allowing you to directly search for pending properties. However, you are able to find pending sales on a comp report.

Yes. On the MLS, the sales price is the total selling price of the home, including any seller-paid contributions. We do try to disclose the actual seller-paid contributions if the data is available in the MLS, but the data inputed by selling agents isn’t always reliable.

Yes, there is a field in the MLS where the agent indicates the owner-type. Foreclosure is one of those options, and you are able to select this option in your MLS search on Investway.

Note: foreclosures are bank- or government-owned property. We do not currently offer pre-foreclosure or auction data, where property is still owned privately, but the mortgagee is threatening to foreclose due to missed payments.

No. Our system is mainly for real estate analysis. MLS rules prohibit us from allowing you to data scrape.

Investway is tested and best experienced in the latest operating systems and Internet browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. You may continue to use Investway using an outdated browser, but you may experience degraded performance, and the functionality of the site may not work as intended.

Currently, the MLS listing data contains tax data fields. We include this information on the property detail page. However, we do not have separate tax data information at this time.

Investway is primarily for residential property. Some multi-family and commercial properties are included in the MLS, our primary data source, but residential properties are the shining star around here.

Unfortunately, no. Investway doesn’t take listings at this time. We work exclusively as a buyer agency.

According to the National Association of REALTORs (NAR), For Sale By Owner properties only make up about 2-5% of all sold property in the nation. Investway focuses on the 95 to 98% of for-sale property, property listed for sale in the MLS.

Most MLS’s don’t classify mobile homes differently than it does single family property. Your best bet is to search with “mobile” or “manufactured housing” in the keywords field. Take note that most mobile homes for sale in the MLS are attached to land, and the land goes with the sale. If you are just looking to buy the home without the land, then you’ll need to look elsewhere.

We suggest you search the MLS marketing remarks using our “keyword” feature in the advanced options search section. Search for “cash” or “cash offers.”

If the property isn’t currently listed in the MLS, then you won’t find it on Investway’s search feature.

You may find the property on a comp report if it has been listed in the MLS within the last few years. Our data availability could be anywhere between one to five years, depending on the market history available to us.

More times than not, discrepancies are due to an agent not selecting the same criteria in the MLS as you select in Investway. If there truly are discrepancies, please contact us and provide screen shots, addresses, MLS #s, etc., so we can further investigate. Accurate data is our livelihood– and we take it very seriously.

The data we have comes directly off the MLS. So it is most likely that the HUD agents aren’t updating the HUD listings as soon as changes are made. For additional info on HUD, VA and other government property, visit http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/topics/homes_for_sale

You can change your email by logging into your account. Go to myProfile, then click on your email address. Enter your new email address and click the blue check mark. IMPORTANT: Once you change your email address, the new email address will be your new username/login.

You can change your password by logging into your account. Go to myProfile, then click on “change password.” Enter your old password and your new password as requested, then click the blue check mark. Your password can be any combination of letters and numbers, needs to be at least 6 characters long, and not more than 20 characters in length. Passwords are not case-sensitive. If you’ve forgotten your password, you can select “Forgot your password?” and follow the prompts to reset your password.

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