Buying pre-foreclosure list vs pulling yourself

[Thomas Brooks]

I just started pulling list to identify homes that have recently gone into foreclosure status.  I am scrubbing them to identify distressed sellers.  Would it be better to use a company like list source?  Has anyone had success using this method?  I am more than willing to make the hundreds of calls, I just want to make the most of my time.   Thank you in advance.

[Brett Goldsmith]

I believe Texas is primarily a non-judicial state so should be able to pull those from the courts. It may be cheaper to pull from the county then from list source for that type of list. You'd have to scrub them after for phone numbers and against DNC list though if your plan is to cold call.

There may be a program that I'm not aware of that lets one pull NOD's ( We have propertyradar which covers 5 states but not TX ).