Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market

If you’re in the process of buying a Kansas City home, you’re going to have to get your utility services set up soon. Going through that process while considering electric, gas, phone, internet, cable and other services can be a daunting task. So when I found about WhiteFence.com, I knew it could be of interest to Kansas City homebuyers. I quickly realized that it could also benefit existing homeowners just wanting an easy way to shop around and verify they’re currently getting the best utility services and rates available in their area. WhiteFence.com promotes itself as a search engine where you can search 40+ different ways for local service providers of home phone, internet, television and other utility services. I found the service to be a great way to see many of the options available in a given area and compare  them either individually or as bundled packages.

Whether or not you actually use WhiteFence.com’s services is a decision you can make AFTER doing your preliminary searches. Should you decide to sign up and go the route of using WhiteFence.com as your utility setup middle man, keep in mind there could be risks involved. I don’t know what those may be but just keep in mind that you’re dealing with a middle man and not any particular utility company directly. The service is certainly intriguing though since it listed all of the major utility providers in my particular area — including, off the top of my head, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Direct TV, Verizon, Comcast, Qwest, Dish Network, Cox, At&T U-Verse, DPI, KCPL, Kansas Gas, Atmos Energy, Embarq, SureWest, etc.  I have to assume that WhiteFence.com probably benefits by getting some type of kick-back from the companies they bundle (i.e. recommend), but the prices I saw were better than what I’m currently paying for my home phone, long distance, high-speed internet and cable TV. And that’s why I recommend checking it out.

The site had added value in that it also listed security companies, financial companies and insurance companies servicing my area. Once you find the ideal package, I’d recommend then going directly to the service provider’s site to be sure a better deal isn’t available by going direct. To get going on WhiteFence.com, simply enter your address and give it a minute to run the search. Even if you get cold feet about signing up, your likely to have gotten some valuable information on your area’s utility providers, services, rates and bundles.  If nothing else, maybe you could your findings directly to the particular service provider in hopes of negotiating a similar deal. Should you want to go the old-fashioned route of a static list of utility companies servicing many of our local areas, you can find that information on my Kansas City real estate site.

Posted by Jason A. Brown