How To Find Track Down Owners of Pre-Foreclosures

[Tim Kirkpatrick]

Hello everyone, 

My name is Tim and I'm know to the creative process of property investing. I currently own three properties in North Carolina that I have managed for over 8 years.  Now that I've been introduced to creative purchasing strategies such as Wholesaling, Subject-To, and Sandwich Lease Option to name a few, I'm ready to reach out to potential motivated sellers. 

I recently began searching public notices for homeowners who are going through the pre-foreclosure process and I'm finding it difficult to locate the current owners.  I would like to know if anyone knows a way to track down the owner quickly and how to filter through public notices faster and more effectively. 

Thanks, 

[Laura Alamery]

@Tim Kirkpatrick

The tax assessor's office will have the last address where the tax bill was sent to, which might be an old address.

I double check the address against people search sites like WhitePages Premium, Intelius, BeenVerified, Inquiso or you can pay for a higher skip tracing service like Acurint or TLO by Transunion. 

As far as WhitePages, Intelius, etc. it is a trial and error situation: certain sites tend to perform better in certain areas and not as well in other, so I personally play around with all of them at different times. My accuracy rate right now is about 70% using WhitePages Premium and BeenVerified.

Those sites will give you also cell phone numbers, mailing address and relatives phone numbers (plus social media profiles.)