Lists, lists, lists.

[Joshua Martin]

Hey gang,

 Hoping I could get a little feedback about which lists people mail and which have worked well for people. My partner and I plan to start mailing about 1500 names a month come September 1. So, we obviously need to decide on which list to mail.

 I gather that absentee owner is really overworked. I hear a lot of people work it in Milwaukee, and everyone on the podcast basically says they don't use it. It seems to be the easiest and cheapest list to mail, hence a lot of people are probably doing it.

I like the podcast with Michael Quarles where he talks about equity lists. I'll probably perform some variation on this, but I just thought I'd ask what criteria has worked well for people as I'm brainstorming which we'll use.

Thanks in advance.

JTM

[Nathan Schoenborn]

I've always wanted to mail to all the people with city code violations.....about 75% of the people who end up in court have no idea how to take care of the violations or don't want to. And usually the fact that they have violations would mean distressed property.