Does Anyone Know How To Find Absentee Owners

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Hi Guys,

Does anyone know how to find absentee owners without using a list broker?

Jennifer Zambo · Answer

The County Appraisers site, or the County Tax Site should give you information on the owner.

Ryan Doyle · Answer

Assuming you are looking in Hillsborough County  www.hcpafl.org  - Search the address and the owner info should be listed.

Timothy Daniels · Answer

I agree with Jennifer above: tax assessor's website lists property owner's name and address, usually via an interactive parcel map search or by giving an address.

Title reps are great team members, but this is just basic info search and not worth bothering them about.

Lizina Green · Answer

You can go the county appraiser or assessor office and look up who owns the property and where they send the tax bill. If you want to actually speak with the owner then you will have to go a step further by "googling" or subscribe to a search site like Intellius.

Nick J. · Answer

Do you have a title rep on your team? You will find they are very resourceful and likely have the ability to assist you in finding absentee owners.

If you don't have a title rep on your team, commit to reaching out a few by the end of the day and schedule meetings with them. You might be surprised at what all they can do for you.

Colin G Murphy · Answer

Hi @David Battle

Have only mailed that list twice so far, and will hit it at least another 3-4 times (once per month). Leads tend to be much stronger towards the end rather than beginning of cycle. Have probably received 10-12 strong leads from it and we have secured one property, which we are currently renovating and hope to flip for a nice profit next month.

David Battle · Answer

@Timothy Daniels   @Lizina Green  @Jennifer  Zambo @Nick  J.

Is the tax assessor and tax collector the same thing? I've been looking at the tax collector's website trying to analyze the info they provide for tax delinquent leads as well as the absentee owners but I'm not really finding what I need. There's also the possibility that I can't tell the difference between gold and garbage and overlooked the info that I actually needed.

I don't yet have a title company as I just moved down here to Tampa so it's on my to-do list.

Kweku Ako-adjei · Answer

@David Battle maybe you gotta change the actual mailers and redesign your letters, envelopes.  I'm just getting started and I'm doing experiments where on a mailing I'm doing half postcards, half letters, half handwritten envelopes, half printed. Stuff like that to measure what is successful and not. Easier at the beginning since you're not too heavily invested in one format.  Keep trying it! It'll hit at some point.

Rich N. · Answer

not familiar with Tampa, but provide the county/town here and someone will probably be able to tell you if they have a free govt or other private website that will show that information.....just don't list the actual street address.

Doug N. · Answer

In a case like this, the county is your friend. You could make your own OO list - get the data from the county and compare the situs address vs the owner/taxpayer address field.

The brokers charge a lot for data, so much so that it's really not an option for beginning investors. Where do the brokers get their data from? The county. The assessor's office, usually. And the original datasets from the assessors office are often far richer than what a broker might sell you.

I usually download the assessor's roll or a shapefile and load it into filemaker and do a calc on the two fields. Then I make an OO tag for those records.

Keep us posted on your search!

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