Distressed Owner Marketing Leads

[Jeff Montanya]

I'm wanting to set up a marketing campaign to target distressed property owners. At this point I've been combing the county records for pre-foreclosures and putting this info into spreadsheets. This has been extremely inefficient and time consuming. Searching pre-foreclosures only gives me part of the data I'm looking to acquire. I'm also interested in bankruptcy, absentee owners, divorce, owners looking to sell off their rentals, probate etc. Is there a service that sells a list of this data? If so how you do you know their list contains legit info? What are the most important questions to always ask any property owner who calls back? Any suggestion on good language to include in the marketing letters or postcards is also appreciated.