DataSift

The County List Playbook

Pick your county. See which motivated-seller lists are producing real deals there right now, in the exact order you should pull them. Built from every investor purchase recorded in your county over the last six months, and adjusted for your state's foreclosure and disclosure rules. Free to use, no account needed.

How this works (the whole logic in 60 seconds)

No black box. Here is everything the ranking does, start to finish.

1. We start with what actually happened. Every single-family home an investor bought in your county over the last six months, straight from the recorded sales.

2. We check what lists those homes were on. Vacant, probate, tax delinquent, high equity, every list and combination. If a home that sold was sitting on a list, that list gets credit for a deal.

3. We divide list size by deals. That number is doors per deal: how many doors you have to work on that list before one becomes a real purchase. A 1,600-door list that produced 47 deals is 34 doors per deal. Lower is better.

4. We rank everything against the county baseline. Priority 1 means pull it first: it finds deals several times faster than marketing to the whole county. Priority 2 is your second wave. Priority 3 is context: thin samples, tiny slivers, or lists your state's rules make unreliable.

To use it this week: pull your Priority 1 rows (the plan tag on each row shows what data access it needs), save each one as its own preset, and work them top to bottom. The build checklist further down writes out the exact steps for your county.

Start with your county

Type your county in the search box above. Every U.S. county is in here, built from its own sold-to-investor deal records; counties with too little investor activity to rank honestly show the state-adapted benchmarks instead, with their real local numbers stated.