Tax Delinquent Land List Sorting Information. Help!

[Anthony Favoroso]

Hey BP community,

Have a question for all you guys that have experience in Land flipping with getting the tax delinquent land lists. I emailed 30+ county treasurers and obtained some lists for free. My problem is the best way to sort this information or even know what i'm looking for. These lists dont seem indicate parcel ids or APN's or even back taxes owed. I read about some people using imacros to search the internet to gather more information, does anyone have experience in this? Looking for the most efficient way to gather this info so i can begin sending out a mailer. Thanks!

[Billy Rogers]

Anthony,

I use Microsoft Excel and Access.  Access makes it really easy to query the data and is faster than Excel.  My last list had the taxes on four lines for four different taxing entities and repeated for each year.  It was easy to total them up with an Access query.

 As far as screen scraping I don't know.   I did just buy a list from a county with very specific instructions to include the property address and lot size and they left it off.  Also, It was delivered in a terrible format and I received no response from them when I pointed out the missing data - all that for $100.   It didn't stop me form sending out a mailing though.  

I may have to look into a screen scraping tool in the future when stuff like this happens again.