Throughout the blogathon, I’ll be sharing some of the different ways you can find your first home.

• In the newspaper. One of the few remaining good uses for a newspaper is opening it up on a Sunday morning and looking for all the open houses that were listed overnight. Some of them may have already made it to the MLS while others won’t appear until after the open house is over. And others may be For Sale By Owner and won’t show up on the MLS at all! Be sure to consult this low-tech trove of information for properties that might otherwise slip right under your radar.