Try RealQuest.comThis is the title insurers database, I believe from First American.

The type of campaign I used to find them usually falls out from their answer.And if I'm near my computer, I can find out what campaign by searching my direct mail database by their name or address.

This requires research to determine property characteristics, public records info, property taxes, bankruptcy court info, etc. and inputting all of the info into a database.

You can add various criteria to filter through the data base such as deed date.

They can only provide the information they have available from each individual county (however outdated it may be).There are several rural counties in my state that literally take more than a year to update their databases (it's pretty pathetic).

Michael Quarles - what is your opinion of these subscription software programs on the market (no names mentioned) that claim to pull cash buyers from public records into their databases and will serve them up to you at the push of a button.

I like the idea of systems and I have begun to implement my own, for better or worse.I have invested in online database systems to help find sellers and buyers.

Court records... does your county have a searchable database for your court system?

@Amy Good well I'm licensed, so I have access to the mls and some sort of tax database that allows me to find all properties with absentee owners, and then i just filter through those to see which ones are the ones i'm looking for specifically (I'll try to filter out all the land lords and just stick with distressed properties) and then as far as delinquent taxes i just use the county website to find those, the downside is that you have to go street by street, at least here in Houston. but hey that beats driving for dollars which is really time consuming and inefficient! 

Here's a link to their information page:http://www.dmaconsumers.org/offmailinglist.html -   Or you can suggest that they google "DMA mail preference"Reputable list compilers run their databases against the suppression list with every update.