Can I pull owner info on absentee homes as an agent?

[Landon Dolezal]

hey so I'm trying to start taking action and so in my neighborhood I've been driving for dollars and have come across a few absentee homes that I would like to wholesale or whatever looks best after looking at it. So as an agent with Keller Williams my question is this, can I pull info on the owners name and contact info as an agent (if so how does that process work?) or would I still need to find a county assessor and pay that fee or use something like list Source? 

[Ryan Dossey]

Do you have "realist" or some other tax program in your MLS? That would be where you would start. At this point most of us would mail a letter to the "tax billing address". If you're looking to save on the $0.75 or so it would cost you to handwrite them a letter you could always dig through the internet looking for their info. Getting set up with something like TLO would do you a lot of good but it's not the easiest thing to do.

You can always use the free "background" tools to try and locate a number. 

http://www.findermind.com/free-people-search-engin...

Don't be surprised if alot of the free sites try to get you to pay for a search. Or set up an account.