Driving for Dollars Question

[Joseph Leonard]

BP Community,

I recently learned about the strategy of "driving for dollars" on a BP podcast. Love the idea. My question is, once you find a home that is abandoned, how do you go about finding who owns the property so you can contact them to see if they would be interested in selling? 

I gave "driving for dollars" a shot tonight and found a couple places. I went to the neighbor's house, knocked on the door and spoke to one neighbor but she kind of looked at me in a very confused manner and didn't have any knowledge of the name of the owner or anything helpful.

[Kyle J.]

The County Assessor usually maintains the property owner's info and it's public record.  In some counties (like mine), you have to go in to their office in person to look it up.  But I've dealt with other counties where you can email them and ask for the info to be emailed back to you, and some others who make it available online so you can just look it up yourself from home.