I set them up in my database to be contacted at a certain time....3, 6 months down the road.

Is there an app that I can take a picture of them with my phone and it scrapes the info off and puts them into a database of sorts?

You just have to mail a lot, keep every lead in your data base and follow up follow up follow up.

I send the letters (5) one month apart, then I will check the database against the tax assessor's site to see what has sold.

I'm looking for deals in Dupage, but I think the recorders database only goes back so far.

So I add them into my marketing database.

I keep them in my follow up database "Outlook" until they tell me to take them off.

this business takes elbow grease.so I hired a person to go into every county courthouse from the CA Oregon border to just south of Tacoma Washington on the Western side of the Cascade moutains and on the East side of the coast range.. and area probably bigger than the state of New Jersey.. in the courthouse they had great Arial Photogs  ( pre google days) that over laid onto plat maps all right there at the counter... he then built a data base took about 1 year of every land owner with 10 acres or more that was not corporate owned that had visible timber.. we then reserve directoried them.. that's how you find telephone numbers.. and since there were no VA's we hired telemarketers to come into our office 2 times a week and start calling..

Public record will not deliver back BK proceedings though, that is a separate database.

It is a great way to get a start on your training and build your database along the way (because as you already know, that database is your business.