Hi Nick, Since I’m still in the looking phase of buying my first home, I do see a lot of home prices that have risen exponentially in the last few years. For instance, maybe somebody bought a home for 200, kept it for four months, fixed it up, and now they want 400 for it. I often feel like realtors are in the game of not offering a low offer “because the comps.” I also find it frustrating that first Zillow, and now Trulia, are not showing anything but about a year’s back worth of sales prices and history. It feels like everybody is colluding to keep everything so secret and the fact that maybe the bottom is falling out of the market after riding high for so long people are defaulting, etc..Is there any way to find this information without going to the county records department in person? Are there ways to determine true comps? If I were a cash buyer, how much would you say could be offered below asking price in this market , because we all know that asking prices are oftentimes just a wish.

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