Favorite Tools for Building Distressed Owners Lists

[Bill Goodland]

Hi all,

Looking for your favorite way to build marketing list. To preface, I have my real estate license and generally pull a list of presumed high equity(purchased more than 10 years ago), absentee owners in my target market and send out about 3000-4000 postcards or letters every 6 weeks or so. I also build a drive for dollars list that I slowly add addresses to every month. Reponse rates have been okay but not great. Have also used list source and prop stream before but the data they provide is very similar to what I pull off the tax records through CRS Tax. I've heard good things about Dataflik but know that they are expensive. I'm not opposed to spending the money and have a demo scheduled with them this week, but was curious if anybody else has other data providers that they like better for more niche areas of distress such as bankruptcy, probate, divorce, code violations etc. that I can stack with my current data.

I have submitted right-to-know requests with the local counties but only certain information is available and can be cumbersome. Any recommendations are appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Bill