Find a home in Hollywood
A search somebody actually reads beats a portal alert that sends you everything.
Every portal will email you every three-bedroom in the zip code. That is not a shortlist, it is a firehose, and the things that would actually rule a house out for you are not fields you can filter on.
Tell Rivka what matters and she sets the search up herself, on the MLS, with your own criteria written down rather than approximated by a filter. Buyers here name things like a walk to a particular shul, a school run they are willing to make, or which streets flood. Whatever yours are, they are what the search is built on. She works with any buyer, on whatever matters to them.
Tell her what you are looking for
Price, size, and the things a filter cannot hold. She sends what fits and says why, usually the same day something comes up.
Not sure where yet?
Which street decides the walk to shul, the school run and the Friday shopping. That is worth settling before a price filter.