Harris county/houston probate leads (vacants?)

[Troy Lilly]

Hey guys, I came across some interesting statistics when looking into the probate leads I was buying. Which were $150 for the month. I use to pull the records myself and do the data entry myself, and I noticed that when I did that my response rate was higher and my leads were stronger. I realized that in buying my leads, there was no check on if there was actually inherited property, only that there was a probate. To make the long story short, I now make my own lists and my response rate more than tripled! 

My list is checked to make sure that there's property inherited, it pulls the inherited property information which is right 90% of the time, and I even scrubbed it to make the inherited property different from the mailing address (absentee). This makes the inherited property, not only inherited, but most likely vacant. Instead of 1000 leads its cut to about 450 solid leads. This has been a gold mine for me. I'm still thinking if I want to share it with others, and I am considering charging for the list, as it takes me over 70 hours to put it together. I may hire a va if I can trust one to produce it as well as me. But it looks like similar lists, which aren't as good as mine, charge like $1.50 per lead. That's insane. I do understand it though because of how valuable the list is and how hard it is to put together. 

Anyway, I wanted to share and hear talks experience with probates or probate lists in Harris county!

[Renee Harris]

not in Harris county, but wanted to thank you for your post. It is time consuming to put together the lists. I've been doing it out here in Los Angeles and it's a lot of work. I decided I needed to do it myself so I can see how it's done then pay for the leads, so I find your post interesting. It makes sense in the, if you want something done right, do it yourself, sense.

I have to go down to the courthouse and search on the computer. What do you have to do to get yours?