manually building a mailing list at the court house

[Stinson Bland]

I recently purchased a list from listsource.com of absentee owners and so far I am unhappy with my response. I had several (16 out of 439)callers but none of them were motivated. I know that I need to continue to mail to this list and I plan to do so.

I asked the members of BP to help with my mailer and many people suggested that I should build my own list.

My Direct Mail Thread

I've read of people going to the county court house (County Records Bldg) and looking for leads on back taxes, code violations, and probate leads.

I plan to spend my entire Wednesday at the court house digging through records and asking the workers for leads and/or ideas. My plan is to make friends with someone there and offer them lunch for their advice and/or help. This will all be new to me so I wanted to ask the BP Nation for a little guidance.

Does anyone from BP have any suggestions on how to locate leads at the court house efficiently? Or tips on what I should be looking for when searching through records?

Thanks in advance!