What Are The Best Tools For Researching Off Market Properties?
 Brokers and investors! A few questions:

1. What tools/websites are you currently using to research off-market properties that meet your criteria for potential acquisition?
2. What data points are most useful to you when you are researching potential properties?
3. What are some of the biggest pain-points when it comes to data gathering?
4. What are the hardest things to find about potential properties and how do you go about getting that information?
[{"id": "iyvmztp", "text": "Phone calls and mailers to owners", "replies": [{"id": "iyvx0u4", "text": "Simple but so effective!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iyvpq9f", "text": "Listsource is a good place to find off-market by criteria. \n\nAlso, the county's property tax delinquency list.", "replies": [{"id": "iyvxfxi", "text": "Thank you, I\u2019m assuming you\u2019ll need to go to each county website for the tax delinquency list right? There\u2019s no one stop shop?", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iyvubns", "text": "LandVision is helpful for county level data in one spot no matter the state. Zoning, environmental concerns, taxes, sale records, ownership data.", "replies": [{"id": "iyvxc0f", "text": "Interesting, thank you for the recommendation!", "replies": [{"id": "iyw88t2", "text": "It\u2019s pricy I think (my company pays for it) but it\u2019s so nice to not have to sort through different county websites since they\u2019re not always\u2026uhh\u2026great.", "replies": [{"id": "iywaxc0", "text": "Couldn\u2019t agree more a one stop shop sounds nice! I\u2019ll check them out", "replies": [], "depth": 4}, {"id": "iz60vk0", "text": "What do you mean by pricey? Do you know how they charged? By head, by searches?", "replies": [{"id": "iz6362y", "text": "I don\u2019t know the price but I just heard a broker grumbling about it. \n\nI\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s a per head pricing structure.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iyw57yk", "text": "Yeah. \n\nI'm not aware of any one-stop shop for tax delinquencies, but you can use netronline.com as a shortcut to county websites nationwide. It's also a one-stop shop for other real estate information.", "replies": [{"id": "iywb90t", "text": "Noted. I\u2019ll take a look in more detail. What sort of other information do they provide if you don\u2019t mind me asking?", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iyw6goo", "text": "I\u2019m a fan of LandGlide. Has owner information, link to tax.\n\nThat right there is enough for me to get the ball rolling.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iz30grf", "text": "I'm in a brokerage firm doing 99% off market . \nPhone calls are still the best.", "replies": [{"id": "iz31tca", "text": "Couldn\u2019t agree more I\u2019ve had some luck with this method in the past, but sometimes it\u2019s no so obvious to get the number to make the that call. How do you guys normally track down numbers for off market properties you\u2019re interested in?", "replies": [{"id": "iz32nrp", "text": "I use Reonomy and property shark for now. Hopefully getting costar soon. If I can't find a phone number on that or I see a LLC I'll try to track the name or persons name. I get creative and start tracing people back to their personal address and try to see if a number is there. Many times people will use their personal address when registering LLC. \n There is also Whitepages, rocketreach, fastpeoplesearch, etc . \nOne time I couldn't find a guy's number through all this method and end up coming across political donations he did and left a phone number lol. \n\nThat being said we do 99% cold calls and 1% cold emails lol .", "replies": [{"id": "iz67l8q", "text": "I love it and noting down these sites. How in the heck did you find a guys political donations? \ud83d\ude02", "replies": [{"id": "iz68n2u", "text": "Almost gave up on this millionaire guy who used an LLC even for his personal house, then I seen a link to a random database to donations. I clicked on it and he wrote his phone number on one of them. I used it other times just to get a home address to search up. \nMy best tip is trace someone back to their home.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "j05srmj", "text": "What are you guys currently paying for landvision for one or multiple users? I used to have it back in 2015 till about 2019 and was only paying $1,200 a year. I'm sure I can't beat that but just wondering if I can get close to where I can actually entertain this option again as I think it's the best platform. F costar", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]