Direct Mail Campaign HELP

[Uniqueka Anderson]

I live in Jacksonville,Fl and am currently starting my REI career. I know that marketing and networking is essential. I've decided to start my direct mail campaign. Wholesaling is my niche, so I would like to find inheritance owners. I've searched public MLS, Craigslist, Zillow, realtor etc. How do I find these homeowners that are not listed online? Is there any public records that I could access to find them? I'm brand new to investing and I could really use the feedback. - Unique'ka

[Dev Horn]

When a homeowner passes, generally their estate is handled in Probate court - that's where the will is executed and changes are ultimately made to deeds, titles, etc.

You can get probate information from your county.  But an estate can be in probate for months, even a year or more, and the heirs cannot sell an inherited house until probate is complete and the deed is changed to reflect the new ownership.

Once the heirs own the house, it will often show up in ABSENTEE OWNER lists, if none of the heirs live in the house.  We find a lot of inherited houses when we mail to absentees, and you can get that list from a public source such as Listsource.com.