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If you've been looking around online for information about buying foreclosures, you've probably come across the name RealtyTrac a few times. What exactly makes RealtyTrac foreclosures so popular and different from the other lists out there, though?

Types of Foreclosures
RealtyTrac foreclosures include pre-foreclosures (default homes), properties soon to be auctioned, and bank- and real estate-owned homes. Their database includes homes from more than 94 percent of U.S. Listings are aggregated from a wide variety of sources and they update the whole database twice a day.

Foreclosure listings
RealtyTrac foreclosures are listed along with a variety of information to help you decide whether or not the property is something you want to investigate further. Some 10 percent of the listings include photos and they're all accompanied by mapping technology that lets you see not only the location, but aerial photos, too.

Their specially designed algorithms provide an estimate of property value for you. This comes along with information on comparable property sales recent sales of nearby homes so you can form your own idea of the property's market value.

Listings of RealtyTrac foreclosures also won't leave you in the dark about critical financial and legal matters like liens, bankruptcy filings, and loans out on the properties. This gives you the chance to pass over any home that might end up too expensive or complicated to bother with.

Services
RealtyTrac is more than just a list of foreclosures, though. The company also provides a wide variety of services. With their interactive mapping system, you can easily search for properties within your chosen geographic area. To keep you up to date, ReatlyTrac lets you set up a profile with your purchase criteria so you can receive email notification whenever a property you might be interested in enters the database. If you want to contact an owner, instead of calling, use RealtyTrac's postcard service to directly contact the homeowner easily for free. Tired of foreclosure lists that force you to transfer listings individually into Excel files or mail merge lists? At RealtyTrac, their software makes large scale data sorting easy.

RealtyTrac reviews
Naturally, before you invest money and time in trying out a foreclosure list, it's wise to take a look at the reviews. Among the companies that have reviewed and use RealtyTrac foreclosure listings are MSN Real Estate, Yahoo! Real Estate, and The Wall Street Journal's Real Estate Journal. These companies use ReatlyTrac's listings and services on a daily basis to keep their readers up to date. Who else is better qualified to provide ReatlyTrac reviews?

Of course, with a company this size, there are bound to be a few complaints here and there.

Some users have found out-of-date listings and have had trouble canceling their subscriptions. With the huge number of ReatlyTrac foreclosures processed daily, it may well happen that some sold homes were overlooked and left in the database for a while. As for subscription cancellations, if you've ever used automatic payments, you know problems can happen with nearly any company, no matter how reliable.

Purchasing access to the database of Realtytrac foreclosures has its pros and cons, but if you're looking for a large national database with homes in all stages of the foreclosure process and access to solid training material, RealtyTrac is worth looking into.