Distressed-seller data goes stale fast. PropScored pulls from live county and court filings a median of 2 days after they're recorded, measured across thousands of real leads, not marketing claims.
PropScored delivers distressed-seller leads a median of 2 days after the public record is filed. Measured across 1,142 timestamped filings, pre-foreclosure notices, bankruptcy petitions, and recorded liens, the median lag from courthouse filing to a sourced, scored lead is just 2 days. Batch-synced platforms like PropStream refresh their aggregated databases on roughly 30-90 day cycles, so the same homeowner may not surface for a month or more.
Freshness isn't a slogan here, it's measured. Every prospect records the date its underlying document was filed and the date PropScored sourced it. For record types that carry a public filing date, here is the actual lag from filing to delivery:
| Signal type | Median days, filing → sourced | Sample size |
|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcy | 1 day | 565 records |
| Pre-foreclosure (NOD/NTS) | 3 days | 412 records |
| Liens (tax, judgment, other) | 7 days | 137 records |
| All timestamped filings | 2 days (median) | 1,142 records |
Here's the mechanism: PropScored scrapes each source every day, so a new record typically surfaces within about a day of appearing in the public record. The one exception is county lien data, which arrives as periodic bulk loads rather than a daily feed, which is exactly why liens show a longer 7-day median while daily-scraped signals like bankruptcy and pre-foreclosure land in 1-3 days. Even the bulk-loaded records are pulled directly from the county, never from a static purchased database.
A distressed-seller signal is a countdown, not a status. A pre-foreclosure notice starts a legal clock. A recent lien or bankruptcy filing marks a homeowner actively dealing with a financial event right now. Reach them in the first days and you're an early, helpful option. Reach them 60 days later, after a stale batch finally syncs, and they've already talked to three other agents, or the window has closed entirely.
"A pre-foreclosure notice isn't a prediction, it's a documented event with a timeline. Two days after filing you're early. Sixty days later you're late."
The difference is structural: PropScored is a live-sourcing pipeline, while most lead platforms are batch-aggregated databases that periodically re-sync from third-party providers.
| PropScored | Batch platforms (e.g. PropStream) | |
|---|---|---|
| Data source | Live county & court filings | Aggregated third-party databases |
| Refresh cadence | Every source scraped daily | ~30-90 day batch cycles |
| Median filing → availability | 2 days | 30-90 days |
| Motivation | Confirmed by a real filing event | Modeled / predictive |
| Contact info | Skip-traced, 84% have contact on file | Bulk-appended, variable |
| Verification | County-record verified | Unverified aggregation |
PropStream is a capable database for research and comping. But if the job is reaching a motivated seller before your competition does, a month-old record is a structural disadvantage. See the full PropScored vs. PropStream comparison.
Fresh data is only useful if you can reach the person. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone number or email, 69% have a phone, 64% have an email, each validated through skip-tracing and email verification before delivery. Reachability is highest on the most time-sensitive records:
PropScored currently sources across metro Atlanta counties in Georgia, led by DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, with Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, Clayton and more. Eleven distinct distress signals feed the pipeline: pre-foreclosure, tax delinquency, bankruptcy, liens (tax, judgment, federal, state), probate, divorce, expired/withdrawn MLS listings, and FSBO. Each is sourced from official county and court records, not modeled or purchased lists.
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