Learn from my mistake (List Source)

[Spencer Rossie]

I'll do my best to explain this...

I have been mailing to absentee owners for over a year now off and on with moderate success. I changed up the criteria recently using "last sale dates" (along with some other changes). When my partner bought the list we realized there was NO data for sale dates prior to 2000. After contacting List Source we found out for this entire Parish (county) they had zero records prior to 2000 for ANY criteria. So in short anytime we mailed we were only mailing to data collected from 2000 to current day. Not ideal at all... 

So be sure to check sale dates or how far back the data goes. Even if it's not in the criteria you are using check to be sure there is data dating back as early as possible.