# What goes into buying a foreclosure?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-into-buying-a-foreclosure/400056
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 14, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-into-buying-a-foreclosure/400056 "2007-04-14T03:38:33Z")
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### Author: ![King\_Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@King\_Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Friday)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-into-buying-a-foreclosure/400056/1 "2007-04-14T03:38:33Z")

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I’ve found all the legal mumbo-jumbo but can anyone give me a real life account of the steps you went through to buy one? How long did it take? Does it go through an agent? Is it all that different than buying a house the conventional way? Stuff like that…