Direct Mail thoughts when you cannot buy a list

[Cory Wells]

Where I am located, due to state laws, I cannot use sites like List Source to buy mailing lists as they do not sell them. Therefore, I was thinking about using our local property tax website to create a list of 2-4 units that I could send mail to. I can use this website to locate neighborhoods in my price and rent range and then pull ownership info from that. On most of the houses I can gather the address, property value, year purchased, and number of beds and baths. My goal is to buy these properties as rentals using the BRRRR method. Currently, I am thinking I will pull the owner information and mail to addresses that have the following criteria:

• If the address listed is out of state
• If the address listed is local, but not of the residence in question(assuming this would mean it’s a local, possibly burnt out landlord)
• Properties that have the same mailing address, but have been owned at least 10 years. Is this enough time, or should I shoot for a longer period of time?

Is this good start or is there other information that I should be trying to pull when I compile my lists. I want to pull as much information so I do not have to go back through, but I also want to be efficient. This is all manual entry so I don’t want to type in every single house in the neighborhood if they just bought the house last year.