Help with Absentee Owner List

[Brady Hanna]

Hi fellow BP'ers,

I was hoping you could help me out. I am looking to target Johnson County KS for wholesaling, but can't find lists anywhere. I looked at ListSource and Kansas isn't on their list, and I looked at a few other sites and this info wasn't available.

Any insights of places to look or help?

Thanks in advance!

[Joe Harper]

I'm in Florida. If i were in your shoes, I would go down to the assessor's office and request a copy of the tax roll. The terminology may be different, but you want the entire database of properties in Excel or Access or a CSV or TXT file.

Take the raw data file and put into Numbers or Excel. Apply a filter to only out of county zip codes for the mailing address and boom there is your list of absentee owners. Then apply filters to target your area, by zip code or township or subdivision. Also filter by the property type.

As a bonus, the pared-down list is in a format that is label-ready! Second bonus: you have every single comp on the county!

In Florida, these files are readily downloadable on the county appraiser (assessor) websites. I checked your target county:

http://appraiser.jocogov.org/general-information

and couldn't find the file. For that matter, I couldn't search for sales either, or enter a range of tax parcel numbers.

You could also befriend an appraiser that may have an alternate source for the raw data.