Lists of Vacant Properties in Every US State

---

Transcript: Finding and Buying your First Vacant Houses List

​00:00
all right everyone getting started
00:03
marketing to vacant houses and vacant
00:06
homeowners we're just gonna jump right
00:07
into it this is Josh with vacant houses
00:11
org we are a micro service that has
00:16
sprouted up in the last few years as
00:17
data becomes available and we wanted to
00:20
bring our service to you so one of your
00:22
first hurdles that you have to you have
00:25
to hurdle as a real estate investor
00:28
getting into the game whether you're a
00:30
wholesaler
00:31
whether you're going to buy out
00:33
properties fix and flip them or you're
00:35
gonna buy and hold them is deciding your
00:39
strategy and moving forward with
00:40
marketing to the homeowners that you
00:43
need to talk to and then having a
00:45
message that speaks to them and fixes
00:47
their problem you fix big problems to
00:49
get paid big money and that's why a lot
00:51
of real estate investors are in this
00:53
game so we can just jump right over to
00:56
vacant houses org just so you can see
00:58
what we are we just provide national
01:01
lists of vacant homes we sell them by
01:03
county investors wholesalers property
01:06
managers I'm just a list of some
01:09
Associates of ours that have used our
01:11
lists really simple you can just click
01:14
this order now tab and you can go and
01:18
find your state and order a vacant house
01:20
list anywhere from 19 to 29 dollars per
01:23
list it'll include every single vacant
01:26
house in the county that you order it
01:29
for now
01:30
now there are a number of pieces to this
01:34
puzzle so if I click on California and I
01:39
go down and I order let's say for OC and
01:42
la Gorge County and LA County
01:46
I want property I want phone numbers of
01:48
owners and I want out-of-state owners
01:51
and that's two counties I'm gonna add
01:53
that to cart over here we keep our
01:56
checkout really basic actually that's
01:59
two times so it would be $58 for those
02:03
two lists PayPal debit credit all that
02:06
stuff but let's actually look at what
02:07
that list does so I want to dive into
02:09
I'm going through that list you can get
02:12
night
02:12
of what you would get through our lists
02:14
as opposed to other list sources that
02:16
you may go to something like list source
02:19
so starting with just this is actually
02:22
North Orange County this is what a list
02:24
would look like if you order through our
02:26
site so let's just look at the very
02:28
first one Los Alamitos Drive in
02:30
Placentia California
02:32
Eric personal becker so this is probably
02:35
a corporate owned corporation owned you
02:38
can identify between private corporation
02:41
owned and entity owned which is going to
02:43
be a bank or somewhat the last sale on
02:47
record hundred forty two thousand is the
02:49
phone number of the owner here and a tax
02:52
mailing address so as you can see he
02:54
lives in beautiful Santa Monica if it is
02:56
Eric or maybe it's a family member in
02:58
the trust beautiful Santa Monica Los
03:01
Alamitos Center so what we do is we just
03:03
copy this if I was to buy this list and
03:06
I just go to Google and I would throw it
03:08
into Google and see what comes up now I
03:11
wouldn't use Zillow a Zillow actually
03:13
doesn't have all the information in the
03:15
places we want it let's say we open it
03:17
up here's some information on the
03:19
property but typically these vacant
03:21
houses you're not gonna get a lot of
03:23
photos they're gonna be off market this
03:26
estimates gonna be way off so I would
03:28
not trust that the best thing to do is
03:30
first jump to red fin because red fin
03:34
puts a lot of some better data up here
03:36
at the top is it 1930 and 1932 up here
03:40
not for sale public record there is a
03:42
photo as you can see it doesn't look
03:45
like it's been updated in a while the
03:49
the home here unknown last sold price so
03:52
the list had a better data there for bed
03:54
two and a half baths you're not going to
03:56
get that with our lists we're not we're
03:58
not gonna send over all that information
04:00
typically that's very easy for you to
04:02
find if there are obscure properties
04:04
we're more than happy to help with one
04:05
off sand and bulk finding information
04:08
but built in nineteen eighty okay so
04:12
this looks like a property where I
04:13
probably would want to reach out to the
04:15
owner what I would then do marketing
04:17
plan number one most direct give them a
04:19
phone call you reach them that's great
04:21
if you don't reach them that's also
04:23
great because you can leave a message if
04:25
it's an unconnected
04:26
number or disconnected number you can
04:29
order a a skiptrace and that will find
04:33
all the information associated with this
04:35
this address and that phone number and
04:38
you can probably throw in this tax
04:39
mailing address as well that's the next
04:41
way to go about it you can direct mail
04:43
the vacant house and maybe you'll find
04:45
the property owner and maybe you'll find
04:47
a family member but it's actually
04:51
arguably more effective to send a direct
04:55
mail piece to the tax mailing address so
04:57
everything in this column that you would
04:59
be getting so let's look at the next
05:01
property just to get an idea here of
05:02
just so I could walk you through what I
05:04
would do and I'm actually looking at
05:07
this the first one I I already looked at
05:09
this one I'm looking at Van Buren Street
05:12
for the first time so okay in Placentia
05:21
fast people search we're actually gonna
05:23
jump down and we're gonna look at Redfin
05:27
not for sale doesn't look like it's in
05:30
horrible condition some cars right there
05:32
to bed one bath last sale 685 Pedro
05:38
Gomez lives in Santa Ana at least the
05:41
tax mailing addresses there interesting
05:44
let's see if there's anything else that
05:46
pops up on Google for sale by owner Van
05:49
Buren stream there's a 166 it's 209
05:52
someone else was for sale by owner there
05:54
sometimes you can actually see a for
05:55
sale by owner of the property you're
05:57
looking for either way instead of
06:02
wasting time trying to do my research
06:04
the most effective way to launch your
06:07
marketing plan is call this number send
06:10
a direct mail piece to this mailing
06:11
address and then move on the value of
06:15
being able to look at this copy this
06:16
next address paste it into Google the
06:21
whole value is for you to get an idea of
06:22
okay that property looks like it needs
06:26
help this one definitely looks like it
06:28
needs help does that look vacant that
06:30
looks completely vacant San Jose laying
06:32
in Placentia redfin estimate probably
06:34
way off although I don't know the
06:36
difference between Redfin in Zillow's
06:37
estimates unknown last sold price what
06:40
we see here it's also unknown lucille
06:43
ting she lives in hiding - Beach that
06:48
looks like a nice property let's look at
06:49
night in Beach
06:53
well that property 202
06:57
5-1 looks beautiful
07:02
this person probably doesn't want to
07:04
deal Lucille or her closest family
07:07
member the sake in over her estate
07:08
probably doesn't want to deal with this
07:10
vacant house over in Placentia although
07:13
they may be holding on to it who knows
07:14
you need to reach out to them so that's
07:17
what our lists provide as you can see
07:19
there's a lot of a lot of valuable stuff
07:20
here just in North Orange County they're
07:24
you know almost 500 on this list you
07:27
would get this list for $29 and you
07:31
would place your order right over here
07:32
so list source is a little different if
07:35
you were to use list source the
07:37
difference is you would build your list
07:40
and come here and this is actually
07:42
touted in the bigger pockets bigger
07:44
pockets is a great blog you should
07:46
become a member of it's 20 bucks a month
07:47
for the base membership and it is super
07:50
valuable or 19 bucks a month so let's
07:53
say city state Georgia
07:58
Aaron Georgia I get that and I'd save
08:02
criteria and then what happened is list
08:05
source wants me to fill out all this
08:06
information about myself everything and
08:10
then they're going to quote me somewhere
08:12
between on the low end low end four five
08:16
six cents per item
08:18
meaning per property upwards of ten
08:23
cents
08:24
I've heard of it being higher as high as
08:27
50 just depending on the data you
08:29
request and it's gonna end up being more
08:32
expensive bottom line our our service at
08:36
vacant houses organ is pretty dang cheap
08:39
it's 20 it's actually nineteen dollars
08:41
and then an extra five dollars per
08:44
county for phone numbers included and
08:48
then another extra five dollars if you
08:50
want out-of-state owners included as
08:52
well but either way every single county
08:54
19 bucks is the base price and then you
08:56
can just add them up in for multiple
08:58
counties so yeah that's how you do that
09:03
so just to sum it up vacant houses org
09:07
our pricing is $19 to 29 per County list
09:10
our delivery time is a guaranteed 48
09:12
hours as opposed to list source
09:14
I believe list source takes time to
09:16
aggregate their data it could take
09:18
several days someone may some people may
09:21
have gotten them instantly I know that
09:22
if you go to the your city websites or
09:25
your County Assessor websites and you
09:29
request certain lists first off you have
09:31
to figure out your County website you
09:33
have to understand how to use it and
09:35
where you're going to request the
09:37
information and know exactly what
09:39
information you're requesting if it's
09:40
vacant house is a list of vacant houses
09:42
if they're tax delinquent properties you
09:44
got to have a marketing plan decided and
09:46
you got to know you gotta go and figure
09:47
it out a lot of times I can be free
09:50
which is great sometimes it may cost you
09:53
a lot more time whether that's one hour
09:55
whether that's 15 hours and maybe a week
09:57
of waiting for them to even respond to
09:59
you vacant houses org will do it in two
10:01
two days 48 hours you get to identify
10:06
between single-family multifamily condo
10:08
townhome mobile you can exclude or
10:10
include any of those entity corporate or
10:13
corporation or privately owned privately
10:15
owned is the most popular out of state
10:18
owners phone numbers on record you can
10:20
range anywhere from zero to a hundred
10:21
percent equity for the properties II
10:24
request you can designate how many years
10:27
since the last sale of the property you
10:28
can see the last purchase price on
10:30
record which sometimes inaccurate we've
10:33
we've seen depending on on where that
10:35
whether it's sold off market or on
10:37
market and then includes the tax mailing
10:42
address of the owner which is super
10:44
powerful so that's what we got for you
10:47
and thanks for listening