Property lists and where to find them?

[Anthony Ross]

Where do you find property lists for your area?  I've been "driving for dollars" here which is good but I'm also open to starting with a list of homes and targeting that way.  I'm in NC but I'm curious if these lists exist anywhere?  I'm specifically targeting homes that are not on the market.

[Merrick Loveland]

There are several places you can pull lists, it just depends on what you're looking to target.  For absentee owners, cash buyers, & high equity you can pull from Listsource.com or Realquest (basically the same company one is pay as you go the other is subscription based).  Foreclosuresdaily.com is a good source (they also provide probate info).  Things like vacant and closed lists and code violations from your local inspections department.  Delinquent Taxes can be pulled from Durham County's website data files.  You can also grab probate info yourself from the county, but you'll have to physically go to the courthouse and go through each file to pull address & executor/admin info.

There are a lot of new data feed sources popping up lately, but I don't have any experience with them.  REWW is supposed to be pretty good.

Hope that helps.