Good data sources for distress in PA?

[Alex Benazet]

Hi All - It seems to me that all the counties I have looked at in Eastern PA have a minimal amount of readily available, easily accessible public data when it comes to liens, foreclosures, any sort of sign of distress. I've been using Batch as well as Prop Stream to try and filter out owners with some sign of distress, but the results for large areas are some times in the single or double digits, not enough to truly target on a mass scale.

Question is - is this how it is in other areas of the country, or is there a way to access data that I'm not thinking of? For example, surely there has to be more than 11 people in Cumberland County PA with liens over $1,000? Or 40 properties in foreclosure? Is it really going town by town and checking their websites?

Any help or insight is appreciated! Looking mostly in the Greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas.

[Marc Maitre]

Have you tried going straight to the county clerk for those departments and seeing if you can pull more data? or if you are out of state paying a birdodg to go do that.