Every distressed seller lead we hand you traces back to a public-record document — not a model guessing who might sell.
Distressed seller leads are homeowners tied to an actual public-record distress filing — bankruptcy, pre-foreclosure, a lien, or tax delinquency — rather than a predictive score. PropScored sources these daily across 15+ Georgia and Florida counties, with a median 2-day lag from filing to lead, so agents reach owners while motivation is still fresh.
A distressed seller lead only qualifies if a real filing exists in the county record — a bankruptcy petition, a notice of default, a recorded lien, or a delinquent tax bill. PropScored tracks 11 distress signal types across DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hillsborough FL, Cobb, Fulton, Pinellas FL, Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, and Clayton counties. Nothing in the file is inferred from a score model — the filing itself is the proof. For definitions of what constitutes a recorded lien, see the IRS explanation of federal tax liens.
We scrape every county source daily. Across 1,142 timestamped filings, the median time from public-record filing to a sourced lead is 2 days. Speed varies by signal: bankruptcy filings surface in 1 day, pre-foreclosures in 3 days, and liens in 7 days — the one exception being county lien lists, which many counties only release as periodic bulk loads rather than daily feeds. Compare that to batch platforms like PropStream, which refresh on 30-90 day cycles, meaning a homeowner could already be under contract before the list even updates. More on how we measure this on our data freshness page.
Freshness only matters if you can get someone on the phone. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone or email — 69% phone, 64% email. That breaks down by source: FSBO leads hit 96% contactability, liens 97%, pre-foreclosure 95%, expired listings 82%, and tax delinquent records 81%. Liens and pre-foreclosure filings tend to include current contact details because they're tied to active legal proceedings, which is part of why they outperform older, colder distress signals.
"I stopped comparing PropStream exports to my calendar. With PropScored the filing date and the lead date are almost the same week."
| Criteria | PropScored | Batch/Predictive Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Source of motivation | Real filing on record | Predicted / modeled |
| Refresh cadence | Daily (median 2-day lag) | 30-90 day cycles |
| Territory model | Exclusive by zip code | Resold to multiple agents |
| Verified contactability | 84% phone or email | Often unverified/stale |
PropScored sells one zip code to one agent — no splitting a hot pre-foreclosure list six ways. That exclusivity, plus county-record verification, is why the model works differently than a shared spreadsheet export:
Georgia agents specifically can see county-by-county detail on our Georgia motivated seller leads page, and if you're weighing us against a PropStream-style export, our PropStream alternatives comparison walks through the tradeoffs. For questions about how we handle outreach and consent, review our compliance page.
A pilot runs $500 for 60 days; standard plans start at $200/mo. See exactly how sourcing works on our how it works page.
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