What to do with a Tax Delinquent List?

[Derrick Redd]

So I just got a hold of my first Tax Delinquent list from the county's tax accessor office. I heard that was a hard list to get, but it was very simple for me. It was just costly. The list came on a CD with 1,535,258 lines worth of what looks like code.

Here is an example of a line: 

SCNDELQ 0030005225000S000000000 800630 00000000+000000000N 000000 000000 $887.3302+0000000.00

I understand that somewhere in there is the Parcel number and I believe that is the way to find information on the property owner. I went to the county's property information management page and tried to enter what I thought was the parcel number (13 numbers) and it tells me the parcel doesn't exist on the database. 

So my first question is what to do first now that I have a hold of a list? 

My second question is how do I filter that list down to a manageable number?

And lastly, where do I go to find the addresses to each of these delinquent properties that I have?

Any other information on what to do and how to decipher this list would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!

Derrick

[Jordan H.]

In the future, before spending money on data, I would recommend asking the county for some sample data so you know what you are getting yourself into. This way you know if you might need to spend additional money on other steps required to get your list market ready.

@Derrick Redd that line wouldn't happen to be from the County of San Bernardino, would it? ;) There are no addresses in the San Bernadino tax roll. This is available in a separate, friendlier, delimited txt file @ http://www.sbcounty.gov/arc/ma...

Interesting to note here that San Bernadino is the only county I've seen so far in CA to keep ownership information publicly available.

Ugly is an understatement when describing the process of parsing the tax data delivered by the counties in the great state of California. 

Reply to the county and ask them to send you the layout of the file. They should have sent it to you when they delivered you the data.