TAKE SOME OF THE MYSTERY OUT OF BUYING A HOUSE SIGHT UNSEEN Share Now! Last fall, when planning a move from North Carolina to Stillwater, Oklahoma, for a new job that would start in January, Andreza Conti Patara and her husband, Marcelo Patara, decided to buy a house. But the couple wanted to avoid air travel due to COVID-19, and buyers were snapping up homes in Stillwater soon after they came on the market, leaving no time to drive out to see new listings. So they researched neighborhoods online, hired a real estate agent, and bought a four-bedroom, two-story house sight unseen.