Tax Delinquent List Data

[Evan Chesterman]

Hello, Bigger Pockets community, 

My name is Evan, I am new to the forum and new to real estate investing. I've been listening to the Bigger Pockets podcast for about 9 months now. 

To give a little background about myself. For the past 2 years, I have worked as a software developer. Prior to software, I worked as a residential property manager. 

I recently became interested in wholesale real estate as my entry point to real estate investing.

I am testing different ways to find motivated sellers i.e. bandit signs, probate, and tax-delinquent lists.

I reached out to one of the counties I am interested in finding wholesale deals and they sent me their tax delinquent list. After receiving the list I realized that I didn't quite know what I was looking for/at. I am hoping the BP community might have some insight into understanding these lists or some resources I could use so I can learn more about the lists. 

Below is some sample data from the county: 

• What is the legal of property? Would the mailing address be the actual address of the tax delinquent home?
  

Map Number

Name

mailing

mailing

mailing

mailing

mailing

mailing

mailing

tax year

bill number

orig. due date

district

legal of property

r=real

m=mobile home

exemptions

exemption

exemptions

exemptions

orig. due

fees

fees

fees

fees

fees

fees

payments

payment date

current due

fees

fees

fees

02N01 001 B

PLACEHOLDER FOR NAME

123 PLACEHOLDER RD

CITY

STATE

ZIP

2019

24226

11/15/2019 00:00:00

001

LL 215 2ND

R

M

S1

1504.3

31.04

0

0

0

0

0

0

1535.34

0

0

0

I am located in the Atlanta, GA area if any wholesalers/investors would like to meet. 

 Thanks for all your help BP community!

[Barry Pekin]

@Evan Chesterman,

You need to do a little work with this list.  You could just send letters to all of the addresses on there, but I think that would be wasteful.  Start looking up some of those properties.  I would bet that the addresses in there are the property addresses, which isn't necessarily the address of the owner.  You're also seeing everyone who is delinquent, but I think you're better off with people who are delinquent for a long time and/or owe a lot.  If someone's delinquent for 30 days and they owe $10, there's not a lot of motivation there.  They are probably about to get a letter, realize they forgot, and then go online and pay.

How you use this list depends on how you intend to market.  If you're into door knocking, you can just start doing that.  (I met someone recently who uses local realtors to do that.)  If you're into calling, then you probably want to skip trace the people on there and start calling.  If you're into direct mail, you might want to do a little digging to find the mailing address of the owners instead of just mailing to those addresses, though it would be simpler, of course, to just mail to those addresses.

I look at things like this as a challenge.  What are my options, and what are my resources?  What is the best way to use this information?  Am I willing to do all of this, or do I need to hire someone?