Where to buy a PRE-foreclosure list in NC? Listsource doesn't work

[Nick Merryman]

I'm looking for a list of pre-foreclosures (e.g. 30/60/90 day late ideally; maybe even post-NOD, but definitely has NOT been officially foreclosed upon) to market to. I'm willing to pay a reasonable price for it, I just want to know the best place to look/get it.

I want to market to pre-foreclosures in Wake County, North Carolina. Lots of posts here on BP suggest looking to listsource.com for this information, but listsource has a whopping 88 entries for the entire county of over a million people with a "distressed" flag, without adding any sort of other qualifying filters. That can't possibly indicate quality data; things aren't THAT good here.

I tried going to the Clerk of Court. When I asked if they had such a list available, they said I'd have to search myself on their terminals. I tried that, but the only information accessible to me is the name of the person in default, not the address associated with it, and I have to view them individually, one at a time -- that would take forever!

I contacted an independent list broker, but she wants 50 cents/record, with a minimum order of ~1500 records, and says she can't guarantee me they're actually behind on their mortgage payments due to some sort of regulation.

Would a service like RealtyTrac or foreclosure.com/foreclosures.com have the sort of data I'm looking for (with full address, owners name, owners contact info, etc) once I sign up? Has anyone had any experience using one of these services and marketing to a list you pulled off their site?

Any guidance, thoughts, suggestions, and advice are appreciated here. Thanks!