All Forum Posts by: Jordan H.

@Evan Chesterman See if they have a layout file explaining the fields, or just call them / email them. They will usually explain things if you need clarification.

Sometimes with the Tax Delinquent lists from the county some preferred data is missing. In the case of this data, the property address appears to be missing. This is no problem for them because they use the parcel id (Map Number) to tie everything back to the rest of the assessment data. 

I find it helpful to go to the county website and look at the delinquent information of a few records. This should clarify the the data a bit for you.

@Nakeisha D. you got a few options here.

Hire a programmer (someone from upwork or fiver maybe) to sort through everything.

Hire a Virtual Assistant to sort through manually.

Get some Excel Macros to do some work for ya

@Nakeisha D. Sometimes data comes from the county in a less than desirable format. 

Getting the Layout file from the county may help you decipher what is inside of the data file. 

In the future, before spending money on data, I would recommend asking the county for some sample data so you know what you are getting yourself into. This way you know if you might need to spend additional money on other steps required to get your list market ready.

@Derrick Redd that line wouldn't happen to be from the County of San Bernardino, would it? ;) There are no addresses in the San Bernadino tax roll. This is available in a separate, friendlier, delimited txt file @ http://www.sbcounty.gov/arc/ma...

Interesting to note here that San Bernadino is the only county I've seen so far in CA to keep ownership information publicly available.

Ugly is an understatement when describing the process of parsing the tax data delivered by the counties in the great state of California. 

Reply to the county and ask them to send you the layout of the file. They should have sent it to you when they delivered you the data.

Hi @Choncere Watson. The Dallas County Tax Office can provide you with the location of their tax roll. But beware, it is not in a user friendly "list" format. It is a fixed length file and will almost definitely require a programmer to sort everything out for you.  

Jake, I agree with you when you say that you should not blindly trust data providers. It is almost always worth your time to check your data for accuracy. The method for checking Tax Delinquent accuracy is simple. 

Pull up 10 or so of their "Delinquent" records.

Go to the county tax website and look up these properties to see If the Delinquent data from your provider matches the county Delinquent data.

Be sure to report back here with your findings!

@Debbie J. SkoraWhat search criteria? AgentPro247 is a BlackKnight product and ListSource is a CoreLogic product. Both BlackKnight and CoreLogic claim to have the same data nationwide coverage (100%) when it comes to basic property data. We've done extensive research on both of them, and they are virtually equal when it comes to the basics. 

I would bet that you could compare their basic property data in every area in the county and the only differences you would find would would be due to data entry errors (and possible a technical error here and there). I'm also willing to bet here that the major difference in record count is coming from the property type.

What state / county? Typically when you purchase a Tax Certificate for delinquent taxes you don't have an opportunity to own the deed to the property for at least a couple years down the road. As far as not collecting rent on the property if a Tax Certificate was purchased against it, I don't see why this would be a thing ( but I'm no expert here). If they still own the deed to the property, why not still collect rent? 

In Tarrant County, the data that can be used to construct a Tax Delinquent list is offered for free by the "Tax Assessor-Collector". This is a fixed length file and it will take some processing in order to turn it into a market ready list.

Anything that requires a judge you may be able to collect from the court house, or through online searching - Probates, Evictions, Liens, Lis Pendens, ...

Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, and Montana. These are all states in which it is actually against the law to use public records for marketing / commercial use. If you notice, none of these states are available on List Source. If you were not one one of these states, I would recommend you keep trying until you get the data you are looking for. Typically this isn't held at the assessors office though, unless the tax collection and assessor offices are combined like they are in some areas.