I run my own data company so we're very niche, I'm getting clients that are no longer satisfied with propstream and similar products as everyone is targetting the same lists. Below I'm going to cover where you can get this information for free! As a quick summary here's where you can find other relevant real-estate data if you're an investor and what does the data contain: - County appraisal data - Absentee owned, Owner information (mailing address, years of ownership), Probate. Parcel property details such as single/multi-family, SQ/FT, # of rooms, etc. "Google your county + appraisal data") - County District clerk (Criminal/civil data) - Divorce, Tax delinquency, Foreclosure, Felony convictions. Preforeclosure data as well (Lis pendends, Reassignment of trustee, etc..) - Justice of peace courts (Lookup your Precinct) - Debt claims, Evictions, Small claims, etc.. - Public real Estate Agent records - Many real estate agents are actually buyers (you can pull up their company info and match it with appraisal district data and identify cash buyers to build your cash list, for example in Texas you can download the entire list from the state site ). - Regrid - is a great place to pull USPS vacant lists. - Public City Works - Code violation data, Water shutoff (although there's been privacy changes with this) - 311 Service requests data - Great to identify bad land lords, code violations, vacant properties, etc. (Think of this list as Driving for $'s as the neighbors/concerned citizens are the ones making the calls to complain). - Other Public sites such as nextdoor[.]com & Facebook - People will tell you what's going on in their neighborhoods (complaints about homeless camps, breaking into houses, etc.) Back to the County Appraisal District Data: This is where as I mentioned you'll find your "Absentee owners", all this really means is that the property site address is different from the Mailing address as an individual may own multiple properties and the only thing that will tie them together is the owner name along with the mailiing address, how can I get ahead of these data vendors and use my competitive advantage? I've put together a Google sheets with the top cities/counties in the U.S that include downloads to the appraisal district/Parcel data which can be accessed here

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My usual disclaimer: although I had a year of pre-law back in the day, I ain’t a lawyer, and I don’t play one on TV; I don’t have fiduciary responsibility towards you, your business, or to anyone else; and none of what I’m about to say here can be considered legal, financial, or taxation advice because I am not competent to give such to anyone. Run it by your own legal counsel, and conduct your business accordingly. Getting ahead of "the sky is falling" FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) that you may have been seeing in Facebook groups & elsewhere about all of this 🙄 First of all, these regulations are NOT "new". The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was signed into law in 1991, and it amended the Communications Act of 1934. Every so often, the two bodies charged with enforcing the law (the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission) issue updated regulations and rules as technology changes and as people use and abuse that technology to the detriment of consumers. Just over a year ago (on December 18, 2023), the FCC issued FCC Rule 23-107: “Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages, Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls”. As usual, such rule changes go into effect in a rolling 12 months after being published in the Federal Register. Hence while the FCC gave everyone a year to get their acts together, the enforcement of FCC Rule 23-107 is going to come into effect on January 27, 2025. The TL;DR of this underlining of already-existing parts of the TCPA as well as emphasis of new enforcement of it, that has gotten wholesalers and other business owners into such a tizzy: Obtaining consumer leads from a lead seller is OK, as long as the lead seller is TCPA-compliant: * 1:1 consent: marketers MUST get CLEAR, INDIVIDUAL, WRITTEN CONSENT from EACH consumer for EACH specific seller, BEFORE you reach out to a consumer with your marketing message;

focus on small local preforeclosure and probate leads not the ones on propstream or any software that provides them pull you a good 10-20 from local county records. I promise you’ll find 1 deal in there and skip trace it via whitepages.com paid version $20for month. I closed my first 20deals this way $500k + plus in assignment we have to get everyone out of pull these big list that are trash with skip trace that is trash. Also another note if you can’t find the owner go to the last payment on the taxes and see who paid it that’s your go to person. These are the little trick you’re not gonna find on YouTube IYKYK. Thats $100k secret I just gave ya for free.