I have been monitoring listings in the south city area (west of kingshighway mostly) pretty closely over the past 3-4 months, and it seems to me that the really good deals that I have seen have gotten picked up rather quickly.  

I will try marketing to them and monitor the results.

They will monitor your ssn and inform you if any suspicious activities are found.

Ask for a prequal letter.Also -  you can monitor increase your credit scores using creditkarma.com - creditsesame.com and credit.com.

The first call said "this call may be monitored"  (Utah is a single party state, and the phone number I was calling to is a Utah number).  

For those who are interested, here are two links for info on the Phoenix market:John Burns Real Estate Consulting (free market analysis newsletter subscription; mainly western states):http://www.realestateconsulting.com/blog/adam-artunian/phoenix-risingRL Brown Report Phoenix Housing (Land and Foreclsoure data):http://www.rlbrownreports.com/====Also, FYI, these are real estate market report/data sites that I use that you may want to copy and paste and keep :Construction Monitor (maintains reports/data on building permits and construction activity in local markets):https://www.constructionmonitor.com/REOExpo (June 12-15/Ft Worth, Tx):http://www.reoexpo.org/about/Real Estate Economics (free local market webinars):http://www.realestateeconomics.com/Real Estate Economy Watch:http://www.realestateeconomywatch.com/SiteX (high level foreclosure/lein/NOD/Title/Lead Generation data):http://www.sitexdata.com/Home/index.aspxBuilder Magazine:http://www.builderonline.com/news/ForeclosureRadar:http://www.foreclosureradar.com/Marcus & Millichap (free market newsletters and webinars):http://www.nationalmultihousinggroup.com/HousingWire:http://www.housingwire.com/National Association of Realtors (Daily E-Newsletter; you don't need to be a member to receive this):https://reg.realtor.org/roreg.nsf/prepreg?

If you are looking for distressed product yellow letters coupled with services that monitor drops in people's credit score are generally effective.

They would have to hire a PI or some such to monitor water bills or do something else elaborate.If calling the notes for placing them in an entity was so routine a few years ago surely one could produce ONE court case demonstrating this.

I will tell you that HAR (Houston Association of Realtors) monitors the login for the MLS system.

I try to monitor certain sub categories with RSS feeds through Google Reader.