There were about 1,450 but after scrubbing the list to remove duplicates it was about 675.  

For a long time I'd scrub my list as nixies (returned letters) came back and would just throw them away as that's what I was taught to do.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel here, but if you are going to go to the effort of compiling and scrubbing this data, why not develop a marketing piece that is going to make them think twice before throwing it into the garbage (since that is where 95% of your effort is likely going, even on the best campaigns)?

On the direct mail front, I have thoroughly scrubbed a list from the title company.  

If we don't answer, we get a text message and email.My statistic is that we spend 6-8k on yellow letters to close one deal.The best YL that we have the highest response for is preforeclosures, we scrub the list ourselves through ''Finance and Commerce'' publication (legal paper required in MN for foreclosure notices).I found that buying lists from other sources has a lot of letters that return to us (8-9%)

Hi BPers have anyone had experience scrubbing a county records list?

I would have it scrubbed about every months.

We are already 5 mailings in with the absentee mailers, but it may still be a good idea to scrub the list more.

I get a mailer for that sometimes (but it's two legal halves so I really only get mailer for one side lol).Not complaining, but just curious how I'm apparently hiding in plain sight. they target cash buyers.. so if you just bought it 3 years ago and did not pay cash they will scrub you off the list as you probably cant sell it to them cheap enough to make any money. 

They scrub the numbers against the DNC list.