How to find address of every MF property in a target area?

Question

Hi,

I’m looking for suggestions on how to find the address of every MF property (on or off market) in an area/sub market. I’d like to be able to sort these properties by the number of units (duplex, triplex, 4-plex, etc.). The county assessors website doesn’t offer any of this info. Do any paid services (Propstream, Costar, Listsource, Reonomy, Reipro, etc.) offer this?

Andrew Caldieraro · Answer

@Michael Reilman

I will either go to the tax auditors site or use a paid service. I will want to find the owners address and contact info, then I plan on sending direct mail or do cold calling for a smaller selection of properties. I do not plan on sending out thousands of mailers in bulk bc I want these properties for a long-term buy and hold investing strategy.

Michael Reilman · Answer

Hi Andrew,

If you are looking for anything 4 units and under, you can go to any Title company and give them a list of your criteria and zip codes you are interested in. I did this when I was into quads, and they do give you an excel spreadsheet of some useful info including address. For commercial (5+) you would have to go to one of the paid services you mentioned, or get friendly with a broker who already paid for these services.

What will you do with just address? Go to the tax auditor site to find the owner?

Andrew Caldieraro · Answer

@Greg Dickerson

Do you know if the tax parcel database has a way for me to sort them by the number of units?

Greg Dickerson · Answer

Getting them directly from the Tax parcel database in the cities your interested in is the best method as thats where companies like listsource get the info. Also Reonomy is a paid service.