to put the number of bedrooms bathrooms square Property Valuations blue mountains footage and that sort of information as part of their assessment but they get that wrong all the time because they rarely get access inside a property and like I said before most property owners try to push down how many bedrooms and bathrooms they have because it’ll reduce their overall tax appraisal so County Recorder’s offices then both the recorders to the Register of Deeds and then the tax assessor these two you know
comprise county records and county records can be way off that makes sense okay so if they’re way off where do I get you know where do you get the rest the information from good question the MLS the MLS is the Multiple Listing Service it’s controlled by the the realtors and more specifically each MLS is independently owned and they’re literally there can be more than one in the same geographic area I live in Volusia County Florida there are three MLS systems in Volusia
County so the MLS I’m going to just say collectively the MLS here but each one is actually localized and independently owned and it is the informations put in there by real estate agents and the great thing about the MLS is that real estate agents have this natural checks and balances system so that insures that the listing information of each property is accurate here’s how it works let’s say you’re a listing agent you list the property if you put in the wrong bedroom bought wrong bathroom wrong square footage wrong anything someone’s going to find out about it when they go show the
property and they’re looking at the listing sheet and they say hey there’s not three bedrooms in this house there’s only two and they’re going to get upset with that listing agent and then that listing agent either is going to make the changes or get a fine from the MLS so what happens is you have this natural checks and balances this accountability system with the MLS so the data is just flat good it’s real good