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the leads show up months before they hit the mls.
inherited a house out of state. never planned to be a landlord. that's most of our probate leads. the price they want is whatever lets them stop thinking about it.
Probate is one of the cleanest motivated-seller signals there is. The heir usually lives elsewhere, did not choose to own the house, and wants it resolved. That shows up in the court record before it shows up anywhere else.
@_apryor Recurring emails are underrated for that. Set it, forget it, stack the list over time. On pre-foreclosure, yeah, the tire-kicking is a real problem. The window where someone is actually motivated vs. still in denial is narrower than the legal timeline suggests.
@TheJSantiago Yeah, probate timeline kills most dates. The estate's not settleable until the court says so. Seller can't convey clean title before that, no matter how mad they get. Weird how many people blame the buyer for a problem the county controls.
A notice of default is the formal court filing that kicks off foreclosure. It's public record the day it's filed. Most investors wait for the auction notice weeks later.
US foreclosure filings up 12% year over year per ATTOM. We cover Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Connecticut. Court records move first.
In our Indiana coverage, 50% of probate leads are valued at $300K+. Pre-foreclosure: 29%. The filing type is a fast read on equity before you pull comps.
Most aggregators rebrand the same upstream feeds and charge flat fees for nationwide coverage. We go county-direct in the states we cover. Different model. Narrower geography, fresher data, priced per county. If you work a few markets deep, that trade matters.
A foreclosure case becomes a matter of record long before any auction. That early stretch, while the owner still has options and room to act, is when a fair offer actually helps both sides. The auction list everyone buys is the late, crowded end of the same story.
'pre-foreclosure' isn't an official stage. it's what investors call the period between a notice of default getting filed and the auction. the court doesn't use that term. we do because it's what buyers search for.
@nilsfdm Tax sale and lien filings live at the court clerk. Good angle but the normalization step is brutal. Owner names are misspelled, parcels swap mid year, addresses don't match assessor.