Using Public Record/Chancery Clerk to Pre-Foreclosure leads

[Drew Byrd]

I visited two different county courthouses to drop in on the chancery clerk to see if I could use public record (Notice of Sale/Default in particular) to generate pre-foreclosure leads. The first clerk informed me that in that particular county, they didn't make record until after the auction had happened and the house had been sold. In the second county, the clerk point me to the county website on which I can view Notices of Sale and the name of the associated homeowner, but that Notice doesn't include the property address. Does anyone know how to effectively turn public record into pre-foreclosure leads?