Driving for Dollars Chicago collected addresses now what’s next??

[Pat Baggett]

Hello to everyone who views and replies to this post. I've recently been very active in my newly real estate investing journey, and I've came across a bump... I drove around neighborhoods (driving for dollars) and collected a good amount of addresses. the problem i am having is finding the owner of these properties. What source/site is best used for finding owners of properties ? I have heard of skip tracing and some good sites for that but when going to those sites, they need you to upload list with the owners name and information already on it, i need to find a good source to find who is ever has ownership of a certain property.. any suggestions would be great, thank you. Chicago

[Tom Shallcross]

@Pat Baggett - For Chicago and all of Cook County can type the address into http://ccrecorder.org which will show you recorded docs like mortgage, foreclosure and title info.  This will inform you of who owns the house.  It will also be a gut check if there even enough equity in the home to make a deal that works for your numbers.  For example, if someone took out a mortgage for 200k 4 years ago and you know that you need to buy homes in that area for 150k-200k, there's likely no deal to be made.  

You can then use TruePeopleSearch.com to search the person (which you found in ccrecorder.org) by name and see if you can get a phone number.  At the very least you'll get an address and know if the owner lives in the house or if they are absentee.  If they are absentee you'll have their address and can mail them there.   If it's a common name you can do reverse address and use your address to see who shows up as an occupant for the home.

Hope this helps!