Why is Listsource not showing all multifamilies in my target market?

[Scott Lennox]

Hi everyone.  I'm assembling a Listsource list for a small marketing campaign and encountered a problem:

When I ask the site to narrow the properties in my target community down to only the 2-4 unit buildings, the number of it kicks back is far below what I know to be true.  Also, if I ask it to select only duplexes, it says there are zero (same for tri and quad properties as well as multifamily).  

Do some areas list the number of units on a property differently than others, making Listsource generate inaccurate and incomplete lists of multifamily units.  How can I ensure that I'm not missing large amounts of multifamily properties in my campaign?

My target market is coastal Monmouth County, NJ communities, focusing on Asbury Park.

Thanks for your help.

-Scott

P.S.  I love this site.  It's the most honest, positive and helpful community I've ever encountered on the web.  

[Jerry Puckett]

Hi @Scott Lennox ,

Data services get their info from public records, and public records are notoriously inconsistent. If you filter for say, bedrooms, and a record does not have that data (even though the house most certainly does), it will return a zero. 

I scoped out a couple of Duplexes in Ashbury Park and they are listed as Property type Multifamily. When I choose detailed property types on Listsource, All, the following are the only ones that came back greater than zero:

You can see there are no Duplex, Triplex or Quads, no "Multifamily" So leaving off every other filter, I just searched for 2 to 4 units, and got 142 hits. That's just the one zip....not sure how many you were expecting?