Los Angeles appraisal district website sucks!

[Account Closed]

Hey guys, 

As many of you Los Angeles investors know, our assessor/appraisal district website sucks. When you look up a property, you don't get much information. You can't see the person's mailing address to see if they're absentee owners, etc. I was wondering if you guys had any tips or strategies on finding more information about sellers/properties. When I go driving for dollars and see properties that I might be interested in, I can't look up the owner or anything. Is the only option to pay for these services through places like Propertyradar?

[Arthur Fuller II]

You might consider using a taskrabbit or fiver - compose a list you're interested in, either from driving for dollars or from that horrible list from the assessor and then give it to a taskrabbit - pay them to go down to the assessors office and manually look up the address - that is what I'm working on now because I have a 8-5 gig: if you have time during the week then you can hit the office your self.