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Pull distressed and off-market properties, find the owner, then trace a current phone number to reach motivated sellers first.
The deal comes down to reaching the owner before anyone else does. Public records give you an address and a name, not a working phone number. County foreclosure feeds are messy and out of date. Prebuilt lists are stale and over-called. Piecing distressed properties, owner names, and current contact details together by hand means you are late to every good opportunity.
Go from a market to a distressed property to an owner to a live phone number in one sequence of tools.
Enter a city or ZIP and pull off-market deals by distress type: pre-foreclosures, foreclosures, auctions, and bank-owned homes. Or enter an address for full property details, value, and tax history. This is where you decide which properties are worth pursuing.
Identify who owns a given property, so you know exactly whose name to trace for contact details.
Turn the owner name and address into current phone numbers and emails from public records, so you can call or text the seller directly.
Run the owner name against nationwide court, arrest, and corrections records before you commit, so a deal never surprises you. You only pay when records are found.
Pull commercial listings, brokers, and asking prices when you invest in retail, multifamily, or industrial property, not just single-family homes.
Pull agent contact data to build relationships with agents who source off-market deals, or to reach listing agents in your markets.
Here is the exact sequence an investor runs to go from a target market to a seller on the phone, with the diligence step built in.
On Property Search, enter your market (say Tampa, FL) and select pre-foreclosure and auction. You get back a list of off-market properties for $0.05 per property, each with the address, status, and estimated value. Pre-foreclosures are the most common pull, since those owners are motivated but have not lost the home yet.
For each property, capture the owner name and mailing address. Property Owner Lookup fills this in when the distressed feed does not already carry it, so every row is tied to a real person.
Run the owner names through Skip Trace at $0.0199 per result (searches with 0 matches are billed as 1 result). Public records return current cell phones and emails, so a list of addresses becomes a call sheet. A thousand owners costs roughly twenty dollars to trace.
Call or text the owner directly, ahead of the wholesalers still mailing postcards to a stale county list. You are the first real conversation the seller has, which is where the discount comes from.
Before earnest money, run the owner name through Criminal Records Search at $1.00 per search (only charged if records found)to surface court, arrest, or corrections records. You only pay when something is on file, so it is a cheap check that keeps a bad deal from becoming a bad partnership.
A CSV of target properties, each row carrying the address, status, estimated value, the owner name, and a current phone number ready to call. Instead of a list of addresses, you have a call sheet you can start working the same afternoon.
| Property | Status | Est. value | Owner | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 418 Oak St, Tampa | Pre-foreclosure | $312,000 | R. Alvarez | (813) 555-0164 |
| 27 Palm Ave, Tampa | Auction | $289,500 | J. Whitfield | (813) 555-0110 |
Every investor list on ScraperCity is built through our platform, so we can see the sequence the customers who close deals actually run.