Vacant properties

[Saim Chaudhry]

Hello all,

Thinking about branching out to marketing to owners of vacant houses/code violation properties since our county has a website with a list of open cases / code violations. It also provides a list of vacant property cases.

How do i go about this? Should I pay particular attention to the cases that were started years ago, or the ones that are just a few months old? Which ones are more successful as far as leads go. On one hand the owners of the vacant houses with code violations are being hammered with administrative fees and code fees from the city, on the other hand if they have been vacant for so long I am sure many other investors have already gotten their hands on the owner or something is wrong with the property to not have been sold and rehabbed by now.

And my big question, finding the owners of the vacant code violating properties. What is an efficient way to find the owners' contact information for 2-300 properties since I have a large list. That might get really expensive as well as time consuming to skip trace all these properties. Is there something I can do to filter out these cases so I have a more concentrated list in my hands of real potential leads and not just garbage. What I mean by that is, in this list there are categories of vacant properties.

Vacant Building

FOCIS Case

Substandard Vacant Building

Dangerous Vacant Building

HSG Boarded

Penalty Waiver Agreement

most of these have combinations of these categories, but their are a few that are JUST categorized as "vacant building" ... Should I focus on those ones or does it not matter?

Or am I just wasting my time with this niche since these lists of vacant properties with code violations is all public information and higher level investors have already gotten their hands on these lists and marketed to the owners the minute they become available.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas!