Ideas on how to get a homeowners phone number

[Jay Mott]

Hello fellow BP members! I have a couple of vacant house leads(2 of which I think are extremely hot) on my desk and I’ve searched for the owner of the properties on the county website so I know who owns them but I’d love to be able to get them on the phone. Any ideas on ways that I could get these persons phone numbers in my hands ? Thanks !

[Laura Alamery]

@Jay Mott

I always say you have to become a private investigator as well when you become a real estate investor. :) 

Once I confirm ownership through the county website, I use WhitePages Premium (paid version - $20/month) as the first easy source to locate phone number and confirm mailing address. I have pretty good success with WhitePages (70% success rate.) If that doesn't work though, other sites to try are Intelius and beenverified.com.

If they all cannot get you good numbers, you can hire a private investigator, who can use a skip tracing service, and you can expect to pay $50+ per lead, but the success rate is pretty high.