Whole Sale in Napa Ca.

[Kenneth Dill]

BP fam.
Anyone here currently working in Napa, Ca. wholesaling? I see a lot of distressed properties that look like good candidates but really have no idea how to access the necessary information without paying membership fees to sites like beenverified.com and dealmachine. Can anyone point me in the right direction for accessing information?

[Kyle J.]

@Kenneth Dill  Property ownership information is public information in California and available from every county assessor's office for free, just not online.  

If you're curious, the reason they don't post it online is because of a law in this state that prohibits any state or local agency from posting certain elected and/or appointed officials home address on the internet without first obtaining their written permission.  They have no way to know who falls into the numerous positions protected by this law, and it would be too cumbersome to constantly update all of their addresses in the database even if they could track it.  So they just don't post anyone's address online.  But that doesn't mean it's not available. 

You can go into the assessor's office in person and view it.  Some assessor's offices will also let you call and get it over the phone, or by emailing them.  Just depends on how they prefer to handle the requests.  They have to make it available though, they just can't post it on the internet.  

Lastly, here's a bonus tip for you...check out an app called "Parceled".   As you're driving around and you come across these distressed properties, you can just pull up the map in the Parceled app, put the crosshairs over the property parcel that you're looking at, and it will actually give you the name AND mailing address for the property owner.  Pretty cool huh?